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...Company of the State in Schuylkill or the Assembly, whose roster of names has changed but little since it was founded in 1748. But in Philadelphia, as in Boston, finance and society tend to merge in a vast accumulation of personal trust funds. There the Stock Exchange and the Racquet Club stand almost cheek by jowl. Last week, to Philadelphians in their clubs and counting rooms came a profound shock. A dozen of the city's best people and biggest money men were indicted for the grossest kind of fraud...
...describe Alice Marble as a new face is not entirely accurate. Her tennis career began when she was 14. That year, her eldest brother Dan gave her a racquet and suggested that instead of playing baseball and basketball with boys, she learn a game which might enable her to travel around the world in style like Miss Jacobs and Mrs. Moody. Alice Marble took his advice, improved so rapidly that she won the California State Girls' title at 16. This brought her to the attention of Eleanor Tennant who, third ranking U. S. player in 1920, had since become...
...Author Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine). At the age of six months, Helen was presented to Tennist May Sutton, an acquaintance of her mother. Just before the War, the Jacobs family moved to San Francisco. When she was 13, Mr. Jacobs gave his daughter an old tennis racquet, taught her how to use it. The day she won a set from him, she entered a public parks tournament. From then until last week, her career has been noteworthy mainly because the most important person in it was someone other than herself...
Richard M. Derson '37 wielded a handy racquet to eke out it win from W. F. Howe, Jr. (U. R. C.); 17-16, 17-14, 13-15, 15-10. John L. Clark '36 took the final match from Lothrop Withington...
Badminton, according to the champion, is the most exhausting of any racquet game, far more so than tennis or squash. He explained that it is an extremely tiring sport, being an overhead game entirely, with no chance for stalling...