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...Masterson and Lindner won the New England Men's Indoor championships in doubles this winter. "They'll both be near the top of the varsity next year," freshman coach Corey Wynn said recently...
...Yardlings-who beat Andover, 8-1, yesterday to run their record to 5-1-have two players who could be among the top three on the varsity this year. Captain Harris Masterson and Ken Lindner, top-ranked juniors in the South and East, respectively, are numbers one and two in singles and form the first doubles team...
...knife duel. And when in the Confederate Army, he killed several men in his company. He killed someone in Texas, and went to jail for two years. He became a hired gunfighter, and was killed along with King Fisher by unknown assassins in Jack Harris's Vaudeville Theatre. Bat Masterson wrote of him: "There was never a better-hearted man than Ben Thompson. It is doubtful if in his time there was another man living who equalled him with a pistol in a life and death struggle...
Most Americans are not even sure what they want the police to police. "We ask our officers to be a combination of Bat Masterson, Sherlock Holmes, Sigmund Freud, King Solomon, Hercules and Diogenes," says Rocky Pomerance, Miami Beach police chief. Indeed, the U.S. often seems lucky to have any cops at all. Plato envisaged the policeman's lofty forebear as the "guardian" of law and order and placed him near the very top of his ideal society, endowing him with special wisdom, strength and patience. The U.S. has put its guardians near the bottom. In most places...
...mythology of the West, there were only red men and white men, but several of the explorers of the Oregon Territory were black, while some 5,000 Negro cowboys roamed the range with Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. A later explorer, Matthew Henson, was Admiral Robert Peary's only companion when he first reached the North Pole, actually beating Peary to the Pole by 45 minutes, thus becoming the first man to stand on top of the world...