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...neighborhood boys' team. Four down when the match reached the 31st hole, Minneapolis' Berg had suddenly won two holes in succession, halved another and dropped a 15-ft. putt on the 34th green for a par 4. Now, if Philadelphia's Vare missed a tricky six-footer, the match would stay alive and chipper little Patty Berg would have an excellent chance to win. Her small, earnest oval face set in serious lines, Mrs. Vare leaned over her ball, tapped it with her putter. When it dropped into the cup, she smiled, walked over to shake hands...
...earthquake origin, skyscraper waves are piled up by steady gales blowing over a great expanse of deep sea. Once formed, such waves may continue their majestic roll until broken up by slackening wind or shallow water. Loftiest ocean wave mentioned in encyclopedic discussions of the subject is a 70-footer reported by the Majestic's, officers twelve years ago. At tales of bigger ones scientists and seamen are inclined to scoff...
Rudolph J. Schaefer is president of F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. A rear-commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club, he named his 56-footer after his two daughters, Edmee and Lucy. Skipper Alger, a Detroit socialite, is the grandson namesake of McKinley's Secretary...
...early account of this affair which I read in the Philadelphia papers called attention to disparity of size & weight of the assaultee & assaulted. Had this photographer been a burly six-footer would he have been handled in this summary manner? Incidentally Young Roosevelt has received more publicity than having himself photographed. I voted for his father...
...Wheelers, father and four sons. Months before the show opened Son Wesley Wheeler studied a floor plan of the exhibit hall, calculated that a 54-ft. ship was the biggest that could possibly be squeezed in. At their Brooklyn. N. Y. plant the Wheelers proceeded to build a 54-footer, serenely aware that nobody could steal the show from them. With salty, side-whiskered Father Howard Ernest Wheeler looking on, the big cruiser, a yacht-like affair with flying bridge and twin screws, was warped into place with less than a foot to spare. Crowds stood in line...