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Last week the summer circus of traveling tennis players gave its show in Brookline, Mass. The event was the National Doubles Tournament at the Longwood Cricket Club...
...about the tool-house, like their near relations who sweep circus rings between acts, the Oakmont gangsters watched early arrivals take trial gouges here and there in the 6,860-yard course. An early comer was George Von Elm of Los Angeles, runner-up last year at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia) to Champion Bobby Jones. Deliberation writ upon his countenance and grim revenge, Von Elm played four rounds, including a 72 with a 7 in it, then took Mrs. Von Elm over to Manhattan where he bided his hour...
...adolescence. He and his young companion, Perry Adair, were astonishing the senior members of Druid Hills (Atlanta) where they both wore short trousers even to parties. Jones was but 14 when he led a field of the country's ablest for half a qualifying round at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia). The beating he gave Gardner at Oakmont three years later was payment for a budnipping that occurred in the third round of that Merion affair. Francis Ouimet administered the budnipping at the Engineers' Club (Roslyn, L. I.) in 1920, Willie Hunter at St. Louis in 1921, Jess Sweetser...
Hobbs today occupies in the cricket world a rather higher position than does Babe Ruth in baseball. He is 42, tall, fair, handsome, well-built. During the War he served in the Royal Air Force and helped to win many a cricket victory for that corps...
...Grace record, which Hobbs has now equalled, was never expected to be surpassed-but it will be. Dr. Grace played cricket for 41 years, from the age of 17 until he was 58. Hobbs will, if the fates are disposed, play first-class cricket for many long years to come. To boot, he has this season yet to finish. It seems therefore certain that he will soon become the greatest batsman in the annals of cricket...