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...recently organized Bridge Headquarters, Inc. The experts-Willard Karn & fat Philip Hal Sims v. David Burnstine & Oswald Jacoby -played six prearranged hands and a five-game rubber. The 450 spectators, who had paid $1 each to be admitted, sat in comfortable chairs, watched the play on a Scoreboard erected near the bridge table...
...Scoreboard at the Stade Roland Garros, near Paris last week the blank space reserved for the name of the Davis Cup winners was barely big enough for the word FRANCE, too small for the name of France's opponent in the challenge round, GRANDE BRETAGNE. The painter of the signboard explained how this had come about. He had reserved a space just big enough for ETATS UNIS for the winner of the matches between the U. S. and England. When England amazingly beat the U. S., he had to use GRANDE BRETAGNE instead. There was no room...
Harvard's baseball team sank to its low point of the year, Saturday at Soldiers Field when the Holy Cross team wore itself out romping around the bases to pile up a total of 22 runs, while the scoreboard showed nine goose eggs for the Crimson. The University diamond forces showed a surprising slump in all departments of the game; two pitchers were knocked off the mound and nine errors were chalked up against the Cambridge nine...
...hits out of 200-wonderful shooting in that kind of a wind, or no wind, for that matter. His father, Stevenson Crothers, shot too. So did his sister, Alice Crothers, who finished highest (161) of the three women entered for the title. Between rounds they stood near the Scoreboard watching Stevenson M. Crothers' score creep away from the other high guns; listening to other gun ners marvel at his easy style (not hunched up and strangling the gun like more ner vous men), his steadiness, his fourth triumph. Afterwards they helped him carry home his share...
...leaving the team, on the last day of practice. The next day, he lost his last chance to win the Big Ten or Western Conference championship as Illinois scored eight points in the first half and then held on while returns from other conference games flashed up along the Scoreboard. By beating Ohio State 8-0, Illinois became the Conference champion for the second successive year...