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...Roosevelt stampeder at Chicago, to wangle a $32.000,000 loan with which to build a power transmission line from Hoover Dam. A Miami citizen sought $12,000,000 to build a highway bridge from the mainland to Key West. New York's crafty Mayor Walker prepared for a grandstand demand for R. F. C. funds to finish his $30,000,000 Tri-Borough Bridge (Manhattan-Queens-Bronx...
Broad Jump. A tiny Japanese flag was posted 26 ft., 2½-in. from the takeoff. That was to mark the world's record of Chuhei Nambu, but Nambu could not reach his flag last week. Loud "Banzais" came from a crowd of Japanese sailors in the north grandstand when he got near it with 24 ft., 5¼ in. A tall Negro from the University of Iowa, Edward L. Gordon, got closer and won with 25 ft. ¾ in. It was the first major event that did not set a record...
...rest, no one would have been much surprised to see Borotra tire or to see Vines's strokes begin to flash and sparkle as they had at Wimbledon. Borotra won the first game on his own. serve. The match stopped while policemen interrupted a fight in the grandstand. Vines won three games. Borotra won them back. Serving at 4-5, Vines slammed his cannonball into the court but the clay made it bounce slowly. At match point, he netted a drive and ran up to the net to shake Borotra's hand just ahead of the crowd that...
Just before the first match in the Davis Cup finals between Germany and the U. S., a clumsy waiter delighted the crowd in Roland Garros Stadium. Paris, last week. He fell over some chairs in the grandstand, noisily spilled a tray of orangeade. The crowd, largely composed of Parisian Germans and Parisian Frenchmen who wanted Germany to win because it might make it easier for France in the challenge round, was delighted also by the next thing that happened. Baron Gottfried von Cramm, a handsome stocky young German, beat tall, rangy, raven-haired Francis Xavier Shields of New York...
...that the doorkeepers were changed. These guests were people of influence and property in their various communities- friends of delegates, of State chairmen and national committee men and women. They knew what was transpiring in the hotel rooms between sessions. In that notorious night session they knew that the grandstand play of McAdoo was an unnecessary slap at Al Smith, as permitted by the Roosevelt managers. During the day Illinois and Indiana had also united in the intention to switch to the governor. So the Mid-West, not Chicago, booed the Californian. The booing was done melodiously, in good taste...