Word: burkhardt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Lindbergh found himself facing a news cameraman he knew and liked-Edward J. Burkhardt of the Post-Dispatch, who is a captain in Lindbergh's old National Guard. The result: the old, smiling, agreeable Lindbergh (see cover...
...longer a star attraction, gave expression to his egotistic dissatisfaction with this state of affairs by trouncing Berkeley Bell of Texas, 6-1, 6-4. In the most interesting match of the evening, between two young Californians who are the first women to turn professional since Lenglen, tiny Ethel Burkhardt Arnold of Los Angeles beat Jane Sharp of Pasadena...
...crowds in the East, their most serious patrons in California. Their worst behaved galleries were in Iowa, where spectators were slow to learn that loud chatting and peanut shelling are not good manners at tennis matches. Never likely to rival either Tilden or Lenglen as a drawing card, Ethel Burkhardt Arnold is at least likely to amaze galleries by her size (4 ft. 11 in.), the speed of her awkward forehand drive, her almost incredible stamina. As Ethel Burkhardt, she ranked high among amateur women tennists in 1929 and 1930. She dropped out of major play for four seasons...
...team had a few anxious moments. With Helen Wills Moody through with tennis for the season, England's pretty 21-year-old Katherine Stammers wore out husky Helen Jacobs, 5-7, 6-1. 9-7. Then demure little Dorothy Round mopped up the court with tiny Ethel Burkhardt Arnold who has been the sensation of U. S. women's tournaments this season. That gave England a lead of 2-to-0. with only five more matches to be played...
...matches start. She covers the court in a series of wild scrambles, hits a jerky forehand that looks better suited to a flyswatter than a tennis racket and wins on steadiness, indefatigable nerve and the brains which most women players either signally lack or fail to use. As Ethel Burkhardt, she learned tennis in San Francisco, went East at 20 in 1929, reached sixth place in national ranking in 1930, then married a carpet salesman and dropped out of major play. She called attention to her reappearance this year by winning in quick succession the Seabright, Manchester and Maidstone tournaments...