SetmriUi Dili de Alvarez, the lovely 30-year-old Spanish lawn tennis star, announced on February I that she had been secretly married in Madrid, seven weeks earlier, to Comte .lean de Gaillard de la Yaldene, a member of a very old French family and a Hying “ace” during the war. Four years ago, Senorifa de Alvarez went to Madrid as special correspondent for the “Daily .Mail” during the revolution, and there she met the conite. Considered the most brilliant stroke-producer among women lawn tennis players, she reached the .final at Wimbledon three years in succession—in 1926. 1927 ami 1925. Last year siie scratched from the early stages of (he singles championship, and for two years before she had been out of the game owing to illness.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 13
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