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...Columbia, the number one singles match, between Captain Dave Burt of Harvard and the Lion's Persinger, should prove very interesting. Harvard has too much strength down the line, however, for the outcome of the match to be in doubt...
Saturday afternoon's encounter with Pennsylvania will supply Coach Barnaby with considerably more worries. Last year's top singles match, which saw Burt eke out an extra set triumph over Isadore Bellis at the Divinity Courts, kept the stands on edge. Bellis, one of the outstanding younger players in the East, will be after blood this year when he meets Burt on his home courts...
From a Massachusetts Quaker family 300 years old came Burt Wheeler, on Feb. 27, 1882. From the start he was on the scramble. Out of Michigan Law School in 1905, he went west, there heard the fabulous tales of attorneys' fees in Butte, Mont., where F. Augustus Heinze, copper baron, and Amalgamated Copper Co. (the "Standard Oil crowd") were at war for control of "the richest hill on earth." But by the time young Wheeler settled in Butte the fight was over and the fees had fled. He became a law clerk, then hung out his own shingle...
Lawyer Wheeler sought a bigger arena, was elected to the State Legislature in 1910 as it was engaged (under old practice) in choosing the next U. S. Senator. Wheeler voted consistently for mustachioed, fearless Thomas J. Walsh. Copper legislators beat Walsh, but Burt Wheeler acquired a powerful friend. In 1912 Walsh was elected in a direct primary and in 1913 Woodrow Wilson appointed Burt Wheeler U. S. District Attorney...
...Wheeler captured the U. S. Senate seat he has since retained. Bounding Burt was hot stuff from the start. In late 1923, as his colleague Walsh lifted the lid of the G. 0. P.'s Teapot Dome, Senator Wheeler began to pry into the man who made Warren G. Harding Pres ident : Attorney General Harry Daugherty. Daugherty's FBI agents toothcombed Montana for Wheeler dirt; finding none, they made some, concocted a charge that Wheeler had used his Senatorial influence to obtain illegal oil leases for a client. After waiting a year for the case to come...