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Sculptor Simpson, 27, of Norfolk, Va., was graduated from Virginia Military Institute. Last year he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts in Baltimore, where he was also an instructor in cast drawing. Twice before he has won traveling scholarships. When they learned that he was executing a St. Francis, the nuns of Norfolk's Franciscan Convent were led in pious procession by their Mother Superior to Sculptor Simpson's studio. Though he is not a Catholic, many of Sculptor Simpson's Catholic friends promised to say masses for his success...
...Crimson team will be favored in the encounter with the Blue and White, since Harvard easily defeated the Norfolk Country Club, which in turn overcame Columbia, 5 to 4. The latter has defeated the Edgemoor Country Club, 6 to 3, while the Crimson has also won from William and Mary, the University of Virginia, Navy, and Amherst...
Coach Farrell's squad returned in good shape from the vacation training trip with the exception of J. W. Potter '30, weight man, who was knocked down and broke two teeth during the rough voyage from Boston to Norfolk...
...string of consecutive victories to 17. Last year it had a clean slate . . . in fact, the only match lost by a Harvard tennis team at all was that in which the Freshmen outplayed the Seconds! The year before, the University team lost only to Pennsylvania. In Norfolk, this Spring, the team romped over William and Mary, 9 to 0; the Norfolk Country Club, 8 to 1; and the University of Virginia, 7 to 2. Then, on the way back to Cambridge, the Navy fell by the count of 8 to 1; a few days before it had eked...
...tennis team opened its five-day stay at Norfolk, Virginia by easily out-pointing William and Mary, 9 to 0. In this match, the Crimson players only lost two sets. In the only other match against a college team at Norfolk, Harvard beat the University of Virginia, 7 to 2, taking five out of the six singles matches, and losing but one of the doubles. The feature encounter was that in which M. T. Hill '31, playing first man, defeated C. A. Smith, of Virginia...