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Annie runs away, is recaptured, and escapes again when Oliver ("Daddy") Warbucks (Reid Shelton) makes a request for an orphan child on whom to lavish a billionaire's Christmas bounty. Guess the rest; it's no great test. Of course, you might not guess that President Franklin D. Roosevelt would be tastelessly trundled on in a wheelchair and be smarmily caricatured by Raymond Thorne. And you might not dream that the updated Daddy Warbucks is as chummy with F.D.R. as he is with Bernard Baruch...
...valiant and convincing service on the acting front, Reid Shelton gives Warbucks an unparched humanity. Without Alpo to lure him on, Sandy proves an artful trouper even if he doesn't say "Arf." Since Annie is the sort of wholesome family fare audiences are always supposed to be arfing for, Broadway's latest tryst with nostalgia will doubtless turn the till at the Alvin Theater into a reasonable facsimile of the U.S. Mint. T.E.K...
Although Yale won the first team title, Louis P. Bayer Jr. from Princeton emerged as the nation's first individual intercollegiate champion. The next year, Harvard dethroned the Elis while the Crimson's J.F. Curtis was medalist. The third year the three schools met Reid finished first, as each college had then had a national champion. Percy Pyne Jr. won for Princeton in 1900, H. Lindsley took the title for Harvard in 1901, and Yale's Charles Hitchcock...
Princeton lagged behind in the early years, as up until 1905 Harvard took six out of nine national championships. Yale took the rest. After that, Yale became well-nigh invincible, winning nine consecutive intercollegiate championships. The great Eli golfers of there were John and Archie Reid. Ellis Knowles, Dudley Mudge, DeWitt Balch, Dexter Cummings, Rossiter Betts, Laddy McMohan and Jess Sweetser, who also played quarterback for the Blue...
...John Reid, the patriarch of American golf, was immensely satisfied when his son, John Jr., won the intercollegiate title while plying for Yale in 1899. Another year his younger son Archie lost a match in the U.S.Amateur. After seeing the news in the paper, Reid turned to his wife t breakfast and cooly said: "I see where your son has lost a golf match...