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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Jack Barr and his Senior mate Henry Thompson form the second best due that Hodder can send up to the firing line. Barr is rather light but makes up for it with a steady all-round game. It any one part of his game stands out from the rest, it is his putting. Thompson in heavier and longer off the tee, but again his main forte is consistency...
Veteran Henry Thompson and Sophomore Watty Dickerman round out the Crimson lineup. Playing on their home links again, the Crimson are favored to chalk up their third victory of the year...
...famed Four Aces and a team led by Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, the cup donor. The Four Aces had won this annual event four times; Vanderbilt's team had won once, been runner-up to the Aces twice. Ace Oswald Jacoby was so confident that in the first round he bet $100 to $10 against his opponents, a team that had barely qualified, was soundly beaten for his overconfidence. So Yachtsman Vanderbilt seemed to have clear sailing...
Near the end of the semifinal round occurred an incident characteristic of tournament bridge, which is played with fierce attention to technicalities like a small boys' baseball game. In a nip-&-tuck match, A. Mitchell Barnes of the Vanderbilt team, playing a five-heart doubled contract, led a heart from dummy, pondered whether to finesse. Impatient with Mr. Barnes's slow play, Opponent Robert McPherran said: "It makes no difference." Mr. Barnes thereupon deduced that Mr. McPherran had two hearts instead of three, eventually went down 500 points instead of 300. Mr. Barnes protested that he had been...
...three dealers* who do 97% of the New York Stock Exchange odd-lot business bought 140,000,000 odd-lot shares, sold 156,000,000. In 1938 they bought 49,000,000, sold 50,000,000-16.1% of the round-lot volume...