Background
She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 14, 1894 and died in Du Page, Illinois, in August, 1968.
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Marjorie Dodd
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Playing at a time when there were no women"s rankings, she was nonetheless one of the best ever to come out of the Midwest Section of the United States Tennis Association (known then as the Western Section). At the Cincinnati Masters, Dodd appeared in eight finals, winning singles titles in 1911 & 1912, and reaching the singles finals in 1908 & 1913. She also was a mixed doubles finalist (with Robert LeRoy) in 1907.
After her notable tennis career, she switched to golf, winning the Women"s Western Golf Championships three times (1916, ‘17 & ‘20) and reaching the finals in 1910 and 1919.
Dodd Letts also served in 1915 as a director of the Women"s Western Golf Association playing out of the Cincinnati Golf Club.
Achievements
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She won doubles titles in 1908 (with Martha Kinsey) and 1906 (with May Sutton) and was a doubles finalist in 1913. One of her most notable victories came in the 1921 United States. Women"s Amateur Championship when she defeated Cecil Leitch, called by the New York Times "the greatest golfing woman the world has ever seen." She also won two Chicago team championships with Mistress Melvin Jones of Olympia Fields, Illinois.
