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Fortnight ago in the finals of the Metropolitan Grass Court Championship in Brooklyn, Ellsworth Vines, 18, unknown, beat Francis T. Hunter, second ranking U. S. player. Entering last week the annual invitation tournament of the Sea Bright, N. J. Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club ?a tournament which has become regarded as a more important sign-pointer for the national than any other mid-season event ? Ellsworth Vines was no longer unknown. People had learned about him ? that his father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, that he began playing when he was six and was later...
...Bright on successive days, Ellsworth Vines put out Frank Shields, twelfth ranking U. S. player and Richard Norris Williams II, twice (1914, 1916) national champion. He beat Shields with a spurt of brilliance after a slow start. In the first set he seemed indifferent. After a point had been settled he would shamble back to serve or receive with an absent expression, bored, disinterested. Once in difficulties, he showed his best game. Against Williams he lost the second set but then roused, ran away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic...
...Ellsworth Vines shambled out next day for the finals. In a week, by winning four matches, he had made his name the biggest news in his sport. A large crowd had gathered to see the annihilation of the other finalist, slim, grinning towheaded Sidney B. Wood Jr. of New York. Wood had played Vines twice before and beaten him once. The night before the final he told friends that he "had Vines's number." Nobody was much excited when Vines lost the first set?his slow start had been the familiar prolog of his brilliance. He started the second...
Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University (bestowing an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering): "You are a poet...
...Mallinckrodt MB 9 Classical Archaeology 1b Sever 29 Classical Philology 28 Sever 29 Economics A Dr. Bigelow, Q, X New Lect. Hall Mr. Brown, V Harvard 5 Mr. de Chazeau, A, G Memorial Hall Mr. Crane, J, T New Lect. Hall Mr. Daly, N, U Memorial Hall Mr. Ellsworth, P, W Memorial Hall Dr. Ham, C Harvard 6 Dr. Kreps, F, Y New Lect. Hall Mr. Leighton, B, E New Lect. Hall Mr. Ratzlaff, H, L Memorial Hall Mr. Shoemaker, D, R New Lect. Hall Mr. Stratton, K, O Harvard 5 Mr. Wernette, M, S Harvard 6 Economics 4b Anderson...