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...dusty sanctum beneath the moldy crags of Memorial Hall, the world was good, and his heart was warm. The crash of heavy trunks reverberates slowly through sacred elms, and the last empty truck rattles futile chains as it whisks into the night; the faint whispering echos of listless leather on cold marble pass into infinity, and friendly beacons twinkle from the yard. Freshmen are a strange race characterized by anxiety, pennants, mothers, and rubbers; but they are dear to the Vagabond. The old fellow envies their careless confusion, he,--ah, there it is! Was that a first timid querulous Reinhard...
...Cochet is as good as ever when he wants to be is what the national singles championship next week will prove. Certainly he seldom wants to be as good as he can be. Cochet's misplays, as much as Bernard's, cost the French team a long listless match with Vines & Gledhill, 16-14, 3-6, 4-6, 9-7, 6-2. Almost everyone expected, on the showing of the teams in the semifinals, that Van Ryn & Allison would reverse the beating they took from Vines & Gledhill in the Newport final last fortnight. Instead, Vines suddenly went...
This year is Goliath IIs fifth in captivity, and as winter waned at his Florida quarters he began to grow listless, sluggish. He would not eat. His cavernous trumpetings became dismal, froggy croaks. Trainers, seeing the remaining half of a $10,000 investment shedding weight at the rate of 10 Ib. a day, called doctor after doctor, but no physician's hand could feel that flapping pulse, no stethoscope could reveal the disorder beneath a hide thick as a truck tire. Last week Goliath II still lay in Sarasota and the Circus went on without...
...Drinker respirator one day longer than anyone else. His runner-up was Birdsall Sweet, also 14, of Beacon, N. Y. The infantile paralysis epidemic of last summer and autumn (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante) had put them in respirators, big sheet steel cans which made a bellows of their listless lungs, pumped air into them (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930; Sept. 21). Stories of Clarence Hastings' happy fortitude got into the newspapers as he lay on his back month after month. People sent him gifts, letters. One day he received two sacksful of mail, more than the biggest businessmen...
Cochet, drawn and listless after an attack of influenza, lost his first match in straight sets to an obscure English player named Nigel Sharpe; Mangin lost to Rogers and Rogers lost to Satoh; George Lott was beaten by Harold Lee. Shields, who had never played at Wimbledon be- fore, and Wood were the gallery's favorites. Wood beat the champion of Spain, Eduard Maier, in a straight-set match watched by onetime King Alfonso. Shields, whose resemblance to Wimbledon's favorite William Tatem Tilden II and the fact that he was the first seeded U. S. player, made...