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...foot putt hit the back of the cup and bounced out. Sarazen, who goes to Nassau yearly for a sunburn, had won the open championship of the Bahama Islands. In St. Augustine, Fla., Glenna Collett, favorite daughter of Providence, R. I., and of Robert Collett, onetime six-day bicycle rider, outdrove Virginia Van Wie on nearly every tee to win the women's Florida East Coast championship...
...national advertising alone (as contrasted with classified and local store advertising) the Chicago Tribune led the morning & Sunday field; the Pittsburgh Press (Scripps-Howard) led the evening & Sunday field; the Newark News led the six-day evening field...
Revelations of a Wife began in 1915. For a short time it ran in newspapers four days a week; then readers clamored for a six-day diet. Without interruption it continued, through war and normalcy, to tell of the problems of Dicky Graham, temperamental artist, and his wife, Madge-800 words a day for 13 years. Today it has a million readers in 200 newspapers (including the Chicago Evening Post, Indianapolis Star, Minneapolis Star, Buffalo Times, Erie, Pa., Times). Syndicated by the Newspaper Feature Service, Inc., of Manhattan, it has also been translated into Spanish for El Mundo of Havana...
...riders broke records and bones; the spectators screamed contentedly; one man was gloomy. He was Charlie Miller, winner of the last one-man six-day race, held in old Madison Square Garden in 1898. Charles Miller rode 2,007 miles in six days, taking nine hours, 15 minutes sleep. The winning two-man team last week rode 2,522 miles. When one grew tired he hopped off his wheel and went to bed, and his partner went riding on. When Charlie Miller tired he kept on pumping; he pumped until exhaustion so overcame him he fell off his cycle...
Spencer and Winter, young ones, were adequately worshiped by the throng. The firmest favorite was "Iron Man" Reggie McNamara, rider in 54 six-day races, ending in 4th place. Just behind was one Debaets, Belgian, who seasoned the monotony of sprintless stretches by pedaling around (without his handlebars) squeezing tunes from an accordion...