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...times, it looked more like street rioting than Davis Cup tennis. Indeed, the cup finals, won by the U.S. last week on the rust-red clay courts of Bucharest, seldom even resembled the mannerly game perfected in 1873 by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield as a diversion for English society...
Died. Maria Clopton Jackson, 93, widow of C. S. ("Sam") Jackson, doughty founder (in 1902) of Portland's independent Oregon Journal (circ. 182,257), longtime board chairman of the Journal Publishing Co.; in Portland...
...Portland Oregon Journal, pro-Willkie in 1940, switched to Term IV because "war is the compelling issue." Frail, spunky Mrs. Maria Clopton Jackson, owner of the Journal's controlling stock, refused to interfere with her editors' decision, but insisted on voicing her dissent. Said she to reporters: "When someone is in power too long ... he gets to feeling as if he is the owner, not just the administrator of a trust. . . . My opinion of Mr. Truman is so severe that I would rather...
Lawn tennis, invented in England only two years before by a Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, was then played on an hourglass-shaped court with a sagging net and thick-framed rackets of almost as many shapes and sizes as there were players. Players served underhand, sedately lobbed the ball back & forth. In England, it was considered unsporting to hit a ball beyond an opponent's reach. But Dick Sears developed what he called "a mild form of volleying," took delight in tapping the ball "first to one side and then to the other, running my opponent all over...
...Says." Charles Samuel Jackson, a native Virginian, headed west when he was still in his teens, reached Pendleton, Ore. By 1882 he had acquired a half interest in the Pendleton East Oregonian, by 1886 had persuaded Maria Clopton, another Virginia native, to become his wife. Of Sam Jackson's many ventures, his marriage was the most successful...