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Fortnight ago the AP carried a story by Sports Editor George Carens of the Boston Transcript. It quoted Vines on the Davis Cup team and its non-playing leaders, Bernon S. Prentice and famed Coach Mercer Beasley, as follows...
...baggy knickerbockers which hang down to his shins. Almost unbeatable on clay, he should be a member of next year's Davis Cup team, think Lott and Vines. Parker's father, Paul Pajowski, is dead. His mother entrusts him to the care of famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley, who fervently hopes he will get beyond his present height of 5 ft. 9½in. Beasley's greeting to Parker when he returned from six weeks abroad to coach the Davis Cup team: "What's the matter? You haven't grown...
...team this year made more elaborate preparations than ever before. In addition to Bernon S. Prentice, non-playing captain, and a trainer to prevent Vines from eating too many cucumbers, as he did a year ago. the U. S. team had a coach: famed Mercer Beasley, who will be tennis instructor at Princeton next fall and whose able book, How to Play Tennis, was published by Doubleday Doran last week. Comment on Beasley's behavior by Colyumist W. O. McGeehan: "All through the match between Vines and Austin he sat like Madame de Farge at her knitting, only . . . instead...
...Before he turned professional, he played well enough to reach the semi-finals of the national clay court championship in 1920. Now nearing 40, he is spry enough to give any of his proteges a match, beat most of them except Hines and Wright. Without the methodology of Mercer Beasley, who trains New Orleans tennists with special wallboards, scrupulous diets and a set of original aphorisms, Coach Kenfield manages to give his pupils some of the feeling for placement, the sense of anticipation that he had to develop himself because his size made it hard to cover the court. Coach...
...West Point, Ga., charged with the murder of Charlene Johnson by stabbing her in the leg artery with a penknife. Negro Joe Beasley was freed when he showed Judge Novatus L. Barker a broken fingernail. Playing the piano at a dance, Joe Beasley had broken the nail, taken out the penknife between dances to pare it. Pushed in the crowd. Charlene Johnson had bumped into the knife, stabbed herself...