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...Coach Harry Cowles and Manager Alden Bryan left town yesterday in an endeavor to stretch their winning streak to five straight. The Crimson racquet wielders will meet Pennsylvania at Philadelphia this afternoon and Columbia at New York tomorrow afternoon. The Harvard players who went on the trip are S. Ellsworth Davenport, III, '34, John F. Ray '34, Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, August C. Helmholz '36, Germain G. Glidden '36, Edward R. Sargent '36, Sumner Rodman '35, and Willard E. Ingalls...
...Harvard Varsity tennis team will open its season this afternoon by meeting the Cornell Varsity at 2.30 o'clock on the Divinity Courts. The Crimson squad will be led by S. Ellsworth Davenport, III '34, captain and a leading candidate for this year's Intercollegiate title. The other Harvard singles players will be John F. Ray '34, Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, August C. Helmholz '36, and G. G. Glidden '36. The Harvard doubles teams will be made up of Davenport and Ray, Justin J. Thackara '36 and Helmhoiz, and Jones and Whitbeck...
...later than most good players. After teaching himself on the public courts, he beat John Doeg (1930 champion) in a match in 1930 without the semblance of a backhand. During the past year he has improved rapidly, climbing from 6th to 3rd ranking. Since the retirement of Ellsworth Vines as an amateur, he may easily become a U. S. topnotcher...
Third race. Lolloping comfortably in the shallow water of the inlet, a porpoise received an appalling thump. It came from the bow of Ellsworth's boat, this time ahead of the others and traveling at nearly 60 m.p.h. The boat leaped into, the air and an official's launch picked up Ellsworth, unhurt except for a cut lip. Tennes, in second place when Ellsworth spilled, heard his spark plugs sputtering on the next lap. He waved to Jean Dupuy who passed him on the last lap and won easily, with his teammate Baron Alain de Rothschild third...
...seat auditorium Macy visitors could see & hear, among others, the following experts, in demonstration-talks: Ellsworth Vines, tennis; Lou Gehrig, baseball; Margaret Bourke-White, photography; Tony Sarg, puppets; Russell Patterson, illustrating; Arthur Murray, ballroom dancing. Instructors from Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet...