Winning Tennis and How To Play It (first edition in dust jacket)
Garden City: Doubleday, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated). Hardcover in green cloth stamped in white. Generally fine, tight copy, previous owner name and address front free endpaper. In the original pictorial dust jacket, chips at the spine extremities and shallow creasing to the edges. 247 pp. Illustrated with multiple flip-book style "moving" instructional photos on each page. Herein she instructs on the various strokes, tactics and strategy, temprement, and tournament problems. Sharon, Massachusetts born Sarah Palfrey (1912-1996,married name Cooke at the time of this publication ) was a championship American female tennis player whose career spanned two decades from the late 1902s to the late 40s. She competed in four U.S. National women's singles championships, losing to Helen Jacobs in 1934 and 1935 and winning two (1941, 1945). She also won 11 doubles titles (partnering with Helen Jacobs and later Alice Marble), and 5 mixed doubles chamionships in 10 tries. Inn the late 1940s she and Marble strongly lobbied the USLTA to allow Althea Gibson to compete in the 1950 U.S. National tournament thus breaking the color barrier. She was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1963. Fine / good. Item #E23228
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