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...play tennis. Seven years later, when the game was being played at 33 U. S. clubs, her brother, Eugenius H. Outerbridge, helped form the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association which drafted rules and held the first national tournament at Newport, R. I. The winner was a spry young Bostonian with a fierce eye and an underhand serve, Richard Dudley Sears. He too could lay claim to being one of the very first U. S. lawn tennis players. In 1874 his brother had brought a set and a rule book from England, set up the net on an hourglass shaped court...
...figure that is not treated in Euclid, or in those modern works that are based on Euclid. When certain theorems concerning this figure are demonstrated, the problem of the trisection of the angle is quite simple." But what the figure is and what the theorems, President Callahan, like the Bostonian trisectors, would not disclose last week. He too wanted copyright first. He was at Chippewa Falls, Wis. for the 75th anniversary celebration of Notre Dame Church, where once he preached. A friendly man, medium tall, 53, a horse back rider when he has time & opportunity, he was amused...
...grandmother was a star witness for the defense, Constance May's mother was a planetary witness. In a stage-Bostonian accent she told of how she went to the theatre every night with her mother, met Mr. Cannon. In a defiant voice she recounted visits to his rooms; of never telling him she had borne him a child...
...cross the African buffalo, one of the fiercest of the continent's wild beasts, with the common milk-cow, Wynant Davis Hubbard & wife last week departed from Manhattan for a tract of land he has acquired in Rhodesia. Mr. Hubbard is a young Bostonian mining engineer who, soon after the War, went to South Africa to advise an asbestos plant. When he reached the Cape, the job was gone. Desperate, he took a position with a hunting party catching and taming wild animals for zoos. Among the beasts he dealt with (and later described in books) was the native...
...favorite and last year's winner, with seasoned Crawford Burton up, took a nasty fall at the second jump, but Burton had remounted and was coming on behind. Sea Soldier was running easily in second place. Well back, though still in it, were the black & white silks of Bostonian Sumner Pingree's Soissons, ridden by Jack Skinner...