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...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 Nor, for 73 years, did the club allow Sunday-morning tennis, though that rule was repealed this...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...
Died. Major Edward Bowes, 71, whose carefully rehearsed, silk-smooth "Original Amateur Hour" (with the trademarked gong and the Major's unctuous "All right -all right") once had 20,000,000 faithful fans, and brought him nationwide fame & fortune; after long illness; in Rumson...
...them was settled. Lotsa married folks have 'em." Shortly Joe left for Chicago to try to settle this one. ∽∽ Meantime, Billy Conn, the almost-champ, pulled a sneak wedding to 19-year-old Mary Louise Smith, went into hiding at Promoter Mike Jacobs' home in Rumson, N.J. Reason: her father had threatened to knock Billy silly if they did it. ∽∽ Marion Talley finally won a divorce from her music-teacher husband, whose countersuit had credited eight assorted lovers to the onetime star of the Metropolitan (who later reduced on and for Ry-Krisp...