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Coach Bill Hinchliff's team is the strongest team in New England, having dropped only two contests. North Carolina turned the trick early in the season with a 6 to 3 score, while Mercor Beasley's Princeton forces won a recent match...
Coach Mercer Beasley's Princeton tennis team swept every match to swamp the Crimson Varsity 9 to 0 Friday afternoon on the Divinity Field courts...
Another Council member, lean, slum-born John Albert Beasley, co-leader of the Australian Labor Party, added to his criticism another note. "The battle for Britain is the kernel of the war, but there is also the battle for Australia. We must concentrate our minds on the Far Eastern position. . . . Frankly I am anxious to know whether sufficient naval assistance could reach us. Our strategy is necessarily a Pacific strategy. I want to insure in time that Australia is not left alone or communications with her forces abroad cut. Everything possible associated with the defense of our own shores must...
...year-old Frankie Parker (né Pajkowski), the sensational Milwaukee ball boy who rose to No. 2 ranking in 1936, clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. in 1937, slumped last year after marrying his foster mother, Mrs. Mercer Beasley, and this year-cannier, more confident, and equipped with a new forehand-has shown promise of returning to his top-notch form...
Parker, whom Beasley characterized as "thin, puny, but quiet and attentive," learned Beasley accuracy and strategy, developed several trick strokes-notably "the shovel"-but never perfected a strong forehand or learned to force his opponent. Two months ago, Mercer Beasley, on his way to become coach of the Bermuda Lawn Tennis Club, learned that the wife he had married a year before this puny boy's birth was about to divorce him and marry the boy. Said he: "If I've lost a love set-well, chin...