Pauline Betz, from Dayton, became a great tennis champion in the 1940s. Not only was she the No. 1 female player in the world for multiple years, but eventually she was enshrined in the Tennis Hall of ...

Pauline Betz has had a tennis racket in her hands almost every day ever since she was nine. Her mother, a gym teacher at Los Angeles’ Jefferson High School, put it there.

The last gasp of the tennis season was an encore to the national championships at Forest Hills: in the Pacific Southwest finals at Los Angeles this week, Sergeant Frank Parker again topped 4-F ...