Nancy Chaffee and Beverly Baker think they have been playing long enough in the shadow of the reigning queens of U.S. tennis, Margaret Osborne du Pont and Louise Brough. This week, with the queens away from Manhattan, the princesses played in the final of the National Indoor championship. Tennis fans got an eyeful, and perhaps a glimpse of a new queen.
Nancy Chaffee, 21, a merry bundle of bounce, tells people, "I'm a ham." Last fall at Forest Hills she was soundly defeated by Mrs. du Pont. Chastened but not discouraged, Nancy went home...
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