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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grand and colorful climax to the onslaught against Yale was the second straight sweep of the four-race regatta on the silver River Thames at New London, Ct. All the crews--combination, freshman, junior varsity and varsity--won handily under the masterful coaching of Tom Bolles. The varsity's triumph was its fourth straight over Yale...
...courts was equal to what has been seen in top-notch white-folks' tournaments this summer. Through the efforts of the A. T. A. directors, who are eager to show the snooty U. S. L. T. A. that Negroes can be developed into high-grade tennists, the colored race-especially its intelligentsia-has become extraordinarily tennis-conscious. In Negro colleges tennis is a major sport, exceeded in popularity only by football (50% of the students play tennis). Wealthy Negroes like Chicago's "Mother" Seames, a 70-year-old, 200-lb. tennis enthusiast, have built public courts for colored...
Finalist Weir, son of a Washington, D. C. violin teacher, is the Bill Tilden of his race. Onetime captain of the College of the City of New York tennis team (a rarity for a Negro ), he has been the most outstanding colored U. S. tennist of the past decade: national champion in 1931-32-33 and-after a three-year retirement while attending medical college-again...
...Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell and his new motorboat Bluebird II: a race against a watch; covering a measured mile in 25.2 sec. in one direction and 25.6 in the opposite direction, for an average speed of 141.74 m.p.h., setting a new world's record for speed on water; at Lake Coniston, England...
...melanin content increased in the subjects studied in the following order: Japanese, Hindu, mulatto and Negro," said the scientists. "Our studies do not support the theories that the pigmentation of the skin in the dark races is caused by pigments which are not found in the white race...