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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Norwich College wrestlers were completely overwhelmed by the University team Saturday evening, when the Crimson won every match, scoring 25 points. The closest contest was that between Captain F. B. Hayne '26 and Peck of Norwich; the two men were evenly matched and the struggle was a hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY WRESTLERS TAKE EVERY MATCH FROM NORWICH | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...disjointed reminiscences. Meanwhile, she worked in the offices of Good Taste. Men came and went. There was Roger, the kindly ironist, who married her young sister, "Pet,"after long courtship of herself. There was little Crump, who had all the charm of a puppy dog. There was Roy Peck, the publicist with the genial personal touch. She loved Roy, but his environment proved too strong for her love. Finally there was Louis Bayard, cultured, a little dried up, in whose elegance she finally found comfort. Everywhere she sought-but her tortured, inquiring mind never found the "answers in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Problems | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) that the national doubles wreath ought to hang on the Golden Gate beside Helen Wills' national singles, doubles and Olympic foliage and the numerous, though more withered, prizes of Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy, Maurice E. Mc-Laughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Longwood | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

Nothing startling came from the French Davis Cup players, Borotra and LaCoste. Westbrook and Snodgrass crushed them before the semifinal. William T. ("Big-Hearted Bill") Tilden II, National singles champion, played with his 1924 protege, young Sandy Weiner of Philadelphia, and got nowhere. "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin, 1921 champions, went down before the Australian onslaught in the semifinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Longwood | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...Newport, a banished king put on something of his former splendor. This was "Little Bill" Johnston, holder of the national championship in 1915 and 1919. He deposed Harvey Snodgrass, 1923 winner of the Newport Casino invitation singles and, paired with C. J. ("Peck") Griffin (his former national doubles championship partner), seemed about to dismiss two other Californians, the omnipresent Kinsey brothers, from the doubles. That match had gone ding-dong for four sets and nine games when Robert Kinsey, on a stretching "get", was crippled with cramps, had to default...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Other Tennis | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

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