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Just as though the Free State's squabbles with Britain had never arisen and Eamon de Valera had never been born, 884 of the finest horses in the world delicately chomped their oats in Dublin last week and tripped round & round the paddock in parti-colored flannel blankets. It was the opening of the Dublin Horse Show, greatest event in the Irish social season and an annual magnet for scores of U. S. sportsmen on their way north for Scotland, Aug. 12 and grouse...
Vines, when he ambled out, seemed to have the same idea. Wearing his white flannel cap, he was as nonchalant as usual against a Borotra who still had his blue beret but seemed to have lost some of the gay bounce that used to go with it. Borotra broke Vines's serve in the first game, rushed the net steadily on his own, hit his volleys crisp and hard. He took the first set 6-4. Borotra waited till Vines had him 4-2 in the third set before he stopped running for hard shots, let Vines have...
...games in a row. When Vines, still loafing, lost the first three games in the third set, it looked to the crowd as though Prenn, the most tenacious tennist in Europe, was going to do the impossible as he has often done before. Vines removed his white flannel cap and with it his amiable smile. Looking serious, he began putting his weight behind his serve, pounding his drives to within a foot of the baseline. He ran out set & match...
...travels, Vines carries his rackets and two of his flannel caps in a new leather case. More extraordinary even than his caps?which are already creating a vogue like the Helen Wills eyeshade? are what Vines has inside his size 10 tennis shoes?a pair of arch preservers. His rackets?he uses 35 a year?are 13½ oz. with a 4? in. handle. For diversion, he likes to polish or scuttle about in his new Ford coupe. His best friend is one Carey MacPherson, who plays mediocre tennis, owns part of a Pasadena gas station. He is engaged to marry...
Careful examination indicated that the baby had been clubbed to death shortly after being snatched from his crib on the night of March 1. The badly decomposed remains, clad only in a flannel stomach band and an undershirt, lay face down in a shallow depression, possibly a hastily scratched grave. On one side was a tall oak On another was a stump. Through the underbrush 75 ft. back ran the special telephone line strung during the world-wide search. The head showed two fractures a round hole through the right temple. One leg and both hands were missing...