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...outplayed by an unranked opponent, ran the score up to 5-2 and set point. That was as far as she could get. Carolyn Babcock, with a forehand so much like Ellsworth Vines's that it was easy to believe she had learned it from his coach, Mercer Beasley, played the kind of calculating tennis that Beasley teaches his proteges, to run out the match 7-5. In the semifinal, Carolyn Babcock was paired against Joan Ridley. She beat the English girl again in three long sets that took an hour and a half...
Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. began waving a tennis racquet when he was 3 but he did not really take the game seriously till he was about 8. When he was a freshman at the Huntington Park, Pasadena, High School, Mercer Beasley, famed coach of Tulane University tennis teams, saw him play a match, decided his game was worth developing. Vines went east for the first time in 1930. The way he beat Francis Hunter in the finals of the Metropolitan grass court championship that year was only less surprising than the way he lost to Sidney Wood in the finals...
...Cooperstown, N. Y. is the Beasley School which teaches boys to concentrate by the very means which the Noise Abatement Commission deplores. Beasley School was founded in 1928 by Chauncey Haven Beasley, onetime Latin teacher at Pomfret, inventor of Golfits Latine which makes a parlor game of declensions and conjugations. Headmaster Beasley, aware that most businessmen must work amid distracting noises, devised two years ago a Concentration Course which has now become his school's chief feature. Every day, first thing in the morning, his 31 students (aged 8 to 16) meet and concentrate together. Older boys get harder...
After 25 months in power the Commonwealth Labor Government of Premier James Henry Scullin suddenly fell last week. In Parliament Irate John Albert Beasley M. P. charged that Commonwealth Treasurer Edward Granville Theodore was showing political favoritism in the distribution of jobs to Australia's unemployed. Jobs at the Cockatoo Naval Dockyard which lies in the Beasley constituency were being given to unemployed men from Treasurer Theodore's constituency, before Beasley constituents had a chance to apply for them. Treasurer Theodore denied the charge. Mr. Beasley demanded an investigation. Radical Left Laborites deserted the Labor Premier, joined...
...Jack Dempsey: his first fight in four years, an exhibition bout against one Jack Beasley; at Reno, by a knockout in the second round. Onetime (1919-26) Heavyweight Champion Dempsey weighed 199 lb., announced a tour of exhibition bouts at the conclusion of which, next March, he might decide to try another "big" fight...