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Tilden, Champion William T. Tilden II lolled through an easy match against Arnold W. Jones of Yale, to take the Men's Rhode Island Championship. Paired with his favorite protége, A. L. ("Sandy") Weiner, he won the men's doubles, defeating S. Howard Voshell and Alfred Chapin...
...Nassau. In front of the huge, garish Nassau Country Club at Glen Cove, L. I., William T. Tilden II played against a protégé of his, slender A. H. Chapin Jr., for the Nassau Challenge Cup. Protégé Chapin took four games in the first set. Then Tilden, remembering that youth will be served, began to serve cannonballs, to cut, chop, drive, until many thought that Chapin would cripple himself in his wild nourishes at mocking tennis balls. Tilden won the next 15 games, the match...
...Mason, an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Baptist, a Democrat. For over ten years he has been Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers. He is quiet and rather retiring. His policy is nearer to that of Mr. Gompers than is that of Mr. Woll, Mr. Gompers' own protÉgÉ. He does not favor a third party or labor party. He has been active against communist propaganda and the extreme radicals in the labor movement. He has leaned to the progressive group in promotion of a Workers' Educational Bureau and in support of Government ownership...
Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett: "Addressing blind men in Light House No. 1, Manhattan, I astonished the audience by saying that I had raised a boy who had been blind from the age of 2. I revealed that my protégé had lived in Boston, attended Harvard College and Law School. At the end of the speech I ordered the bandmaster to play the colors. To curious reporters I gave no further information...
...lived there until his death in 1911. He knew the satisfaction of being an honored prophet in his own community. To his home flocked students, for he was an inspired teacher who taught for love of it, and many of our best American illustrators were among his prot...