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Those who could still take it made an historic evening of it by following part of the Goodman band up to Harlem to hear Count Basie's boys battle hunchbacked Chick Webb's men at the Savoy Ballroom...
...Tigers, tallied first when on the fourth play in the second period Johnny Langhill went over from the two-yard stripe with Chick Rainier booting the extra point. Leading up to the Orange and Black score was Rainier's series of smashes from the 30-yard line...
...Alderwood Country Club) for the first time in history. In a downpour which soaked the players the first day. Oldtimer Francis Ouimet, who won the Amateur in 1914 and again in 1931, found his ball as unmanageable as an eel, dropped out with an 85 But another oldtimer. Charles ("Chick") Evans, who held the title in 1916 and 1920, ran off a neat 74 on the mushy course in the first round of his 28th national championship. It was Evans' quarter-final match (against the defending champion, young Johnny Fischer) however, which stirred sentimentalists like Grantland Rice most profoundly...
...years been famed Bill Mehlhorn's 271 in the 1929 El Paso Open. Last week Mehlhorn's astounding record, which all the best professionals in the world have since failed to equal was convincingly shattered by an unknown, 22-year-old Battle Creek playground supervisor named Melvin ("Chick") Harbert. On the Arbor Hills Country Club course at Jackson, Mich. Golfer Harbert won the Michigan Open Championship with a four-round total of 268, 18 strokes better than his nearest competitor and 20 better than...
Eliot House's dinner dance at 7:15 o'clock boasts the music of Chick Webb's orchestra, the singing of Elia Fitzgerald, and dancing until 2:00 o'clock. The dining room has been specially decorated and the preparations for dancing under the stars on the terrace have given the dance its name, "The Terrace Dance...