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Disappointed but not resentful, the knowing Wimbledon gallery was only partly recompensed by the phenomenon of a final in the women's singles champion ship between two sprightly German girls, the first all-German final on record. Long legged Fräulein Hilda Krahwinkel, who hits her drives hard and never gets tired of running, had won a long match against Helen Jacobs of the U. S. after Helen Jacobs had surprisingly beaten England's Betty Nuthall. The other, Fraulein Cecilie ("Cilly") Aussem, a demure little brunette who played well in the French champion ships last month, decided to take...
Pour le sport, matadors are gored by bulls, half-backs achieve broken collar bones, skiers leap at 90 miles an hour into snowdrifts where many a hip is twisted awry. Last week Sport, most ogreish of modern Deities, lured Frãulein Elfriede Lucker of Dresden and four male companions up the snow-swept Bratschenkopf, near the Austro-German frontier...
...ulein Lucker, robust, buxom, was paired in climbing with a lean, nervous youth, her fiance. With pick and pole and hatchet the party labored upward. Suddenly a blinding Alpine snow storm swept upon them, continued for 24 hours...
...ulein Lucker and her fiance contrived a snow shelter. Wrapping their garments cocoonwise they lay down, shivering, snow-beaten, storm-cowed...
When the storm cleared Frãulein Lucker staggered down the mountain, secured a rescue party, fainted with exhaustion and despair when told that her fiance and his three companions were found dead...