Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days. He wrote light verse and lighter prose. He was a burlesque writer for the Republic Theatre in San Francisco. Before John V. A. Weaver was out of short pants, he had written The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum and other poems "in American." His Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy made firm his reputation. Since then he has turned away from humor determinedly to write serious novels. Yet, principally, he is a lover of a good story. He will tell you the complicated plot of one of his yarns with the greatest relish. He enjoys the working out of detail...
...outlook for the season is promising with almost a dozen schoolboy stars expected in addition to the usual material from the smaller preparatory schools. Kilgore and Paulsen, tackles from the Hill School, are expected to shine as well as Zarakov, an Exeter halfback. Miller from Worcester Academy, is particularly promising, being an extremely fast backfield man weighing over 190 pounds. He placed in both of the dashes at the Harvard Interscholastic last spring. Bond, who enters from the University of Maine, should be among the leading center candidates, while Daley, captain at Andover last year, is certain...
...Every schoolboy knows that Grand Rapids, Mich., is the center of the furniture trade in the U. S. Few even of the élite know that Grand Rapids is also the center of the vanishing cognate art of woodcarving. In the Ryerson Public Library the Woodcarvers' Association of Grand Rapids holds an annual exhibition, filled with the zeal of the medieval craftsmen. There are only about 1,000 hand-carvers in America, all told, and 157 of them are in Grand Rapids, though at one time they numbered there 375. The artists to whom the hand furniture industry gives...
Davis Cup. Australia succeeds itself as America's challenger for the Davis Cup by lowering the French team's tricolor in three straight matches at Longwood Cricket Club, Boston. James O. Anderson (Australian captain) defeated the French schoolboy, RenÉ Lacoste; John Hawkes disposed of Jacques Brugnon in straight sets, and the same players, paired against each other, locked in a desperate five-set struggle which went the way of the Australians...
...largest crowd that ever saw a schoolboy baseball game (40,000) crammed its way into the Polo Grounds, New York, to see George Washington High School win for the second year in succession the inter-city championship from Lindblom School, Chicago, 4-3. "Honey" Baker, George Washington captain and third baseman, whose two hits won the game, signed to play with the New York Yankees after the game...