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...boarded the S.S. Kwanchung, seized it before it left Canton. At a prearranged point, they clambered to the bridge, poured fatal shot into four seamen. Their confederates came alongside, and presently the whole bottom including the Chinese Captain, two Chinese Christian preachers, 50 passengers, steamed to an unknown piratical cove. The Queen demands $120,000 ransom...
...Glen Cove, L. I. U. S. tennis players do not attach much importance to doubles. Britishers, intrigued by the leisured amenity of this form of play, concentrate upon it. The Oxford-Cambridge tennis team, playing at the Nassau Country Club, had no difficulty in taking the doubles matches from a bounding pair from the University of California. The latter won four singles matches, the tournament...
...Nassau. In front of the huge, garish Nassau Country Club at Glen Cove, L. I., William T. Tilden II played against a protégé of his, slender A. H. Chapin Jr., for the Nassau Challenge Cup. Protégé Chapin took four games in the first set. Then Tilden, remembering that youth will be served, began to serve cannonballs, to cut, chop, drive, until many thought that Chapin would cripple himself in his wild nourishes at mocking tennis balls. Tilden won the next 15 games, the match...
Died. William Van Arden Hester, 66, President and General Manager of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; at Glen Cove, L. I., of heart disease. His father, the late Colonel William H. Hester, was head of the Eagle before him. Under the Colonel's guidance, Mr. Hester worked his way up "from selling extras to general manager's desk...
...Rain and the consequent postponement of the international polo match (see SPORT) persuaded Lord Renfrew to postpone his departure. While waiting, he spent a typical day. Rose at 10 a.m., took a plunge in the Burden pool, played seven chukkers of polo, lunched with Mrs. Harrison Williams at Glen Cove, teaed at J. P. Morgan's home in the same place, dined and danced at the home of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt...