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Engaged. Lincoln Ellsworth, explorer, and one Mary-Louise Ulmer, amateur aviatrix of Pottsville, Pa. Next year, after the marriage and before Sir George Hubert Wilkins worms his way under Arctic ice to reach the North Pole. Mr. Ellsworth will go with Sir Hubert and Pilot Bernt Balchen to the Antarctic to attempt a 20-hr, flight from Ross Sea to Weddell Sea over the Queen Maud mountains...
Married. Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., 20, U. S. tennis champion; and one Verle Low, 21; at Pasadena, Calif. They set out for Australia on a four-month exhibition tour with other U. S. tennists (Wilmer Allison, John Van Ryn, Keith Gledhill...
...Frederick Perry, No. 2 tennist of England: the Pacific Southwest Championship; beating tiny Jiro Satoh of Japan. 6-2, 6-4. 7-5, in the final after Satoh had beaten Champion Ellsworth Vines Jr. 6-4. 6-4; at Los Angeles...
...more knowing than those who come later in the week stroll about among the outside courts, comparing notes on familiar players, making a patter of applause that punctuates the cool syncopation of tennis balls bouncing against turf and strings. There was plenty of material for sideline talk last week. Ellsworth Vines Jr., defending his championship, and Henri Cochet, keyed to avenge the beating Vines gave him at Roland Garros stadium, had first-round byes. . . . Bunny Austin, England's No. i player, wearing a floppy white duck hat and a flaring pair of white flannel shorts, won his first match...
...Ellsworth Vines: "I found Ellsworth working in Kay's Bakery Shop in Pasadena. . . . He had a Western grip and a roundhouse swing, was about six feet tall and his feet wouldn't be friends with each other. But he had the heart and the willingness. . . . He was determined to hit hard . . . while I fretted over errors...