Word: rumson
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Robert Shaw Oliver Harding '52 of Rumson, New Jersey, and Winthrop House will manage next year's club, and Allan Gifford Barry, Jr. '53 of Milwaukee and Kirkland House was named yesterday as winner of the sophomore managerial competition...
...Boston; Robert L. Berger '52, Newton Highlands; Richard L. Craven '52, New York city; Humphrey Doermann, New York City; Werner Drehmel '52, Brookline William R. Engstrom '52, Newtonville; Bernard J. Florin '53, Roubaix, France; Dana H. Getchell '53, Belmont; Benjamin S. Goldstein '53, Cambridge; Robert S. O. Harding '52, Rumson, J. J.; Donald C. Harshman '53, Englewood, N. J.; Richard W. Hulbert '51, Somerville; Berkeley D. Johnson, Jr. '53, Scarsdale, N. Y.; James P. Johnson '51, Clarks Summit, Pa.; Laurence B. Leonard, Jr. '52, Swampscott; Richmind P. Miller, Jr. '49, Philadelphia; Howitt Pantaleoni '52, New York City; Charles W. Ufford...
...founded 1877), has always prided itself on doing things right. Because the best turf came from England, the founding fathers imported Seabright's first sod from across the Atlantic. Over the years, they also imported the best amateurs in the world to play in their invitation tournaments at Rumson, along the North Jersey shore. Since 1903, when Beals C. Wright won Seabright's Achelis Cup, the annual tournament has been a midsummer tradition on the Eastern tennis circuit, a pleasant prelude to the national championships at Boston's Longwood and New York's Forest Hills...
Seabright has also stood for lack of fuss. It built no permanent stands, kept its roomy, shingled clubhouse modest. Since Rumson is short of hotels for transients, touring amateurs such as Big Bill Tilden, Little Bill Johnston, Vincent Richards, Molla Mallory, Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs were customarily put up in the sprawling seashore-gothic palaces of the members. Seabright was quiet, too. If a visitor happened to ask for a highball, he was gently reminded that the club has never served liquor. Nor, for 73 years, did the club allow Sunday-morning tennis, though that rule was repealed this...
...increase managers for the next three seasons were also announced yesterday. They are: William Herbert Murphy Jr. '51 of Boston and Kirkland House, Robert Shaw Oliver Harding '52 of Rumson, New Jersey and Winthrop House, and Jay W. Hearst '53 of Palatine, Illinois and Matthews Hall...