Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with a lecture by William Lyon Phelps, A.M. '91, to be given this afternoon in Baker Library of the Business School, the present exhibit of the Treasure Room of Widener Library has been arranged. The lecture, which is not open to the public, but is part of a meeting of the Massachusetts Library Club, has for its subject "Three Living American Poets," The poets to be treated by Professor Phelps, who is professor of English Literature at Yale University, are Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. A group of their letters and first editions together with some...
Captain J. L. Pool '28, who on Wednesday was crowned singles champion of Massachusetts, is a slight favorite to capture the national singles laurels, which will be at stake in the singles tournament over the weekend. Pool will meet his stiffest opposition in M. P. Baker '25, present national title-holder, whom he defeated in straight sets, in the Massachusetts State finals on Wednesday. Herbert Rawlins '27, New York champion, and G. E. Debevoise '26, who ran Rawlins to five sets in the New York championships...
...game, which was one of the fastest contests played this year at the Association, was won through Pool's speed. Pounding Baker's backhand shots, the Harvard player took the jump early in the game and retained the lead until the end of the last match. Baker's forehand was difficult for Pool to handle at times, but the University player often forced the defender into many errors on his back-hand shots...
...three years Baker has held the title which he lost yesterday to Pool, and has held the national title for one year. The fact that Pool has defeated Baker six straight matches out of as many played indicates that the University captain has more than an even chance of winning the national title, when squash players from all over the country meet at Philadelphia this week in the National Championship matches...
...Pool-Baker contest was the final match in the tournament of the class A players for the State Individual Championship. The Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association was the sponsor of the tourney, and the Boston Athletic Association handled the details of the drawings and arrangements for the matches...