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...Waldemar Kaempffert's science colyum in the New York Times it was revealed that the late Sir Henry Segrave, racer of motorboats and automobiles, solved the problem of buoyancy in his boats by lining the hull with thousands of ping-pong balls...
...final round of the Freshman Ping-Pong tournament will be played off in the large common room of the Union tonight at 7.10 o'clock. The winner of this tournament which started with over to entries will receive a silver...
...Three of the fair-haireds?Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., John Hope Doeg and George Martin Lott Jr.?beat Bell, Francis Xavier Shields and John Van Ryn, respectively. The only dark-haired player in the semi-finals was also the only Englishman in the tournament, Frederick J. Perry, onetime ping-pong champion and No. 2 singles player on the British Davis Cup team. His semi-final match with Vines was generally regarded as the one which would decide the championship. Vines won, after losing the first two sets and breaking two rackets with a smash that is now considered...
...Ames Brown, handsome Southern newsman, resigned as president of the advertising house of Lord 6 Thomas and Logan, Inc. (American Tobacco. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, California Fruit Growers Exchange, General Electric). Succeeding Mr. Brown is another Wartime U. S. Ship ping Board protege of Albert Davis Lasker, L. & T. and L.'s board chairman: Ralph V. Sollitt. Tactful Advertiser Sollitt is Indiana-born. He has been teacher, lawyer, banker. Under Wrill H. Hays he helped elect Warren Gamaliel Harding President. In 1924 at Mr. Lasker's urging he went to Chicago with L. & T. and L. He gathered...
...finals. A lanky youth who often plays in a broad white linen cap. he uses a slice serve, an Eastern grip for his smooth flat drives. Perry played brilliantly at Wimbledon, polished off his reputation in the Davis Cup matches by beating Sidney Wood and later Jean Borotra. Onetime ping-pong player, Perry learned his tennis on London public courts, considers travel the best way to improve it. In last week's doubles, Vines was paired with Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, national intercollegiate champion. Perry with George Patrick Hughes, his doubles partner on the British Davis Cup team...