Word: glens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glen Cove, L. I. U. S. tennis players do not attach much importance to doubles. Britishers, intrigued by the leisured amenity of this form of play, concentrate upon it. The Oxford-Cambridge tennis team, playing at the Nassau Country Club, had no difficulty in taking the doubles matches from a bounding pair from the University of California. The latter won four singles matches, the tournament...
...Nassau. In front of the huge, garish Nassau Country Club at Glen Cove, L. I., William T. Tilden II played against a protégé of his, slender A. H. Chapin Jr., for the Nassau Challenge Cup. Protégé Chapin took four games in the first set. Then Tilden, remembering that youth will be served, began to serve cannonballs, to cut, chop, drive, until many thought that Chapin would cripple himself in his wild nourishes at mocking tennis balls. Tilden won the next 15 games, the match...
Married. Miss Jean S. Roosevelt, daughter of John E. Roosevelt, cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt, to Philip J. Roosevelt, her second cousin; at Glen Head, L. I. Both are descendants of Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt, grandfather of the late President...
Died. William Van Arden Hester, 66, President and General Manager of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; at Glen Cove, L. I., of heart disease. His father, the late Colonel William H. Hester, was head of the Eagle before him. Under the Colonel's guidance, Mr. Hester worked his way up "from selling extras to general manager's desk...
John Lyon Caughey of Glen Falls...