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...system, where three softball games with mixed teams were in progress, while at the other end of the grounds on a Badminton court, the Shuttlecock (bird) was taking a terrific beating from the rackets of both men and women. The tennis courts and the ping pong tables on the porch of Briggs Hall were used continuously...
...last big purchase of new equipment was made just before the U.S. entered World War I. Their streetcars, owned by four different companies (all in receivership) and operated by a fifth, are oldfashioned, high-riding trolleys ("antediluvian arks"), 75% of which were built before Harding campaigned on his front porch. And they are so crowded that many Chicagoans cannot even reach a strap to hang...
...Open a porch on any side. >Convert a big room into little ones or vice versa...
...played today is so young that one man's lifetime spans its entire history. Last week that man, prim old Bostonian Richard Dudley Sears, who helped establish the modern game of lawn tennis and was its first U.S. champion, died in Boston at 81. To Boston and Newport porch-sitters and nostalgic tennists everywhere, Dick Sears's death represented the end of an era of ruffles and parasols, roped-off lawns and sunny afternoons, lopsided tennis bats and the genteel pat of ball against languid strings...
...Elling's toughest cases was a boy he once discovered jumping onto some porch steps. The coach trained him carefully, but to his dismay the boy failed to show up at his first big meet. Said the boy: "I couldn't bear to appear half naked in front of all those people!'' Von Elling started him jumping before spectators in street clothes, stripped him by easy stages, finally persuaded his prodigy to brave an audience in shorts: whereupon he set a world's record in the standing high jump...