Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today, though the great Nikola Pashitch is dead, his family is still potent. Last week his daughter, Mile. Dara Pashitch, announced her engagement to a young Jugoslav who had previously been reported engaged to Miss Mary Landon Baker, Chicago heiress of a few millions. The fiance who got not dollars but a great name is comely Bojidar Puritch, recently Jugoslav Consul General at Chicago...
Captain J. L. Pool '28, No. 1 man on the University team, provided an upset in the finals of the state amateur tournament when his speed and constant playing to his opponent's backhand gained him a victory in three straight sets over M. P. Baker '25 of the B. A. A. holder of the national amateur crown for the year 1926-27. Pool was beaten in the National Championship Tournament in Philadelphia, February 12 by the present champion, H. N. Rawlins '27. The experience and coolness of Rawlins was put to test in five gruelling matches before he overcame...
...relations and domestic issues. The club is anxious to obtain men of all political beliefs and interests. All men who may be interested are requested to write to G. W. Smith '29, secretary. The following political figures will address the club sometime during the next few months: Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War; Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas; Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York; Senator Carter Glass of Virginia; and Assistant Professor W. L. Elliot of the department of History, Government and Economics...
Showing the same coolness which has always characterized his game, H. N. Rawlins '27 of New York, gained the National Squash Racquets Singles Championship from M. P. Baker '25, of Boston, on the courts of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club, Philadelphia, yesterday afternoon, in three straight games, 15-12, 15-13, 16-15. Both finalists were captains of the University squash teams in their Senior years. As the score indicates, the match was close, but Rawlins always had the edge...
...national title-holder, who also won the metropolitan squash racquets championship at the University Club, New York, during the week of January 16, was able to triumph over Baker because of his perfect footwork and his skillful anticipation of his opponent's shots. Rawlins had complete control over his racquet...