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...stewards of Arlington Park race-track near Chicago having disqualified his horse Princess Camelia for fouling three other horses in a race last week, Joseph Leiter used what the stewards called "intemperate language and con-duct." They fined him $250, suspended him from the track...
...comparison with Tilden whom he resembles in build and technique rather than temperament. His game, less artful than Wood's, has some times seemed less determined; but his strokes, now that Tilden has turned pro fessional, are the most impressive in U. S. amateur tennis. Till this year his con viviality, his susceptibility to admiration, have made it appear unlikely that he would turn his potentialities into a championship. Aged 21, a year older than Wood, Shields started to play tennis at 8, has since found time to become good at basketball, bridge, poker. He practices five or more hours...
...Minister to Denmark; of heart dis ease and a kidney ailment; in Bad Gastein, Austria. An oldtime journalist, he be came editor and publisher in 1904 of the Detroit Tribune, founded Booth News papers Inc. with his brother George G. Booth. As president of the chain he con trolled eight Michigan newspapers...
Life undertook to prove its point by sending ballot cards to 5,110 golf clubs, and printing a ballot blank in the magazine. Strictly, Life's poll will not be a true pro-&-con measure of opinion because the form of ballot blank is worded to attract only the objectors. But as a petition of protest, Life is confident that an overwhelming aversion to the new ball will be registered by "the 90% who never break...
This being the Machine Age, the Machine Maker might appear to be top dog in the industrial heap. But this does not necessarily follow. When, last week, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. proposed to absorb Advance-Rumely Corp., only the man in Wall Street seemed greatly con- cerned. Allis-Chalmers follows only General Electric and Westinghouse in the field of large electrical equipment, manufactures also a diversified line of farm machinery and machines for general industrial use. World's largest hydroelectric unit is the 70,000-horsepower engine built by Allis-Chalmers for Niagara Falls Power Co. Yet even...