Word: foresters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Roberval parties of Indians and French Canadians set out to search northern Quebec ? a half-explored tract of forest land larger than all New England ? for Réné and Michel Courtois. Three weeks ago they found them 95 miles north of Roberval. Thirteen-year-old Michel, his hair matted, his face aged and seamed from privation, crouched over an iron bucket in which he had kept a fire burning for two months. Nineteen-year-old Réné, dead since July, lay beside him, a moldering skeleton...
...longer is "the forest city" an appropriate name for industrialized Cleveland...
...tournament of the Canadian Seniors' Golf Association, a one-round medal event for a cup presented by the U. S. seniors.* His card was 77, two strokes better than Charles D. Cooke of Arcola, N. Y. Veteran tennis players appeared last week on the courts at Forest Hills, L. I., for the national veterans championship. In the first round, swarthy Franklin Pierce Adams, 47, New York World colyumist ("The Conning Tower") was eliminated 6-0, 6-0 by an unseeded entrant. The eight seeded players survived together to the quarterfinals. The finals were won by Clarence M. Charest...
...story of tennis tournaments all over the world has been for the last ten years the biography of a narrow, T-square tennis player, William Tatem Tilden II. The story of the national singles championship at Forest Hills last week was the same story with certain variations...
Tilden had not won at Forest Hills since 1925, and admittedly he would not have won this year had Réné Lacoste or Henri Cochet of France been entered. But Lacoste was so seriously ill in the Swiss Alps that he may never be able to play again, and Cochet, treated arrogantly by U. S. officials last year, had not returned to defend his title. Thus the tournament resolved itself before the finals into a contest between Tilden and the generation of younger players whom he has always so far been able to beat...