¶ The U.S. women's team, over Britain's best women tennis players, to take the Wightman Cup for the 15th time in a row, six matches to one ; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass. In the fourth and clinching match, Britain's Kay Tuckey was trounced, 6-1, 6-3, by 16-year-old Maureen Connolly of San Diego, the youngest U.S. Cup team member in history.
¶ Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta, over Cleveland Schoolteacher Claire Doran, the National Women's Amateur Golf championship, 2 and 1 ; at St. Paul's Town & Country Club. In the 18 years since she won the Georgia State women's tournament...
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