Friend's Love Kept Tennis Star Gussy Moran In The Game To The End

The Tennis Player Who Shocked All With Her Short Skirts
FILE - In a June 22, 1949 file photo, Gertrude "Gussie" Moran races across Centre Court to make a return shot in third round women's singles match in Wimbledon, England. Moran, who shocked the modest midcentury tennis world when she took the court at Wimbledon with short skirt and ruffled underwear, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 in Los Angeles, said Jack Neworth, a tennis writer who befriended Moran in her final year. She was 89. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - In a June 22, 1949 file photo, Gertrude "Gussie" Moran races across Centre Court to make a return shot in third round women's singles match in Wimbledon, England. Moran, who shocked the modest midcentury tennis world when she took the court at Wimbledon with short skirt and ruffled underwear, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 in Los Angeles, said Jack Neworth, a tennis writer who befriended Moran in her final year. She was 89. (AP Photo, File)

Everyone deserves life with dignity in their final years, whether you dug ditches or played tennis on the world's most famous stages.

Gertrude "Gussy" Moran did the latter. She also got that deserved dignity because of the extraordinary kindness of a woman possibly as quirky as Moran was herself — this other woman wears a $15,000 Rolex that she painted purple with nail polish to hide the gold.

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