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Weetamoe beat Vanitie and Resolute on the first day's run from Brenton's Cove Light Ship to West Chop on Martha's Vineyard. Andiamo beat the other M-boats, when Prestige, after leading half the way, dropped back to finish last in her class. The second day was so foggy the race committee considered calling off the longest leg of the cruise, 73 miles around Cape Cod to Provincetown. When the fog finally lifted, there was almost no wind; the boats drifted along the rough elbow of the Cape till dark. Word came that Michabo...
...York, a keeper tied a clothes line to a black cherry tree. A beaver wanted the tree for a dam, chewed it close to the ground, dragged it as far as the line permitted. Then, instead of biting off the line, as it could have done with one chop of its four big flat front teeth, the beaver gnawed through the tree twice more, once just above the rope girdle, then just below: carried the two tree sections away, left the tethered bit behind...
...Mudford backhand when she needed a point, won, 6-1, 6-4. Helen Jacobs has not been playing so well as usual this year; Mrs. Moody beat her 6-0, 6-0 a fortnight ago. When Helen Jacobs beat Betty Nuthall 8-6, 6-4, by steady application of chop-strokes, critics could see that Betty Nuthall's game had not improved much either, made a good guess as to what would happen the next day when she played Mrs. Moody...
...finals of the Sea Bright (N. J.) Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club's invitation tournament after a series of smart victories in the early rounds. He was beaten, in perhaps the most surprising match of the year, by Sidney B. Wood Jr., who upset his game by softly patting chop strokes across...
...Moody, playing without an eyeshade, and with a backhand chop which she has incorporated in her game, beat the club professional 7-5 in a practice set, later won the doubles with Mrs. Wightman. Asked why her husband had not come East with her, she replied: "He doesn't like to watch tennis. He had rather stay home and sail a boat...