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...Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket* Club, the oldest tennis club in the U.S. (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...
Soon the shelter will be finished and they will lay back the sod, as if nothing had ever happened. But members of the House strolling through the main quadrangle may walk confident and erect, for they know that if war comes, Lowell House will be ready...
Well after Orangemen's Day and far from the ould sod, Irish passions flared in Houston, at the expense of Glenn McCarthy's Shamrock hotel. Vandals dyed the water in the Shamrock swimming pool a deep orange, costing Millionaire McCarthy $159.40 for a rush job of draining out 100,000 gallons...
...Faolain's picture of modern Ireland, which he thinks is a good place to live, is far from the notions of the ould sod and the emerald isle which many Americans cherish. He sees a nation of peasants-become-freeholders, a nation slowly learning how to make the best of its position "at the end of the queue" of Europe. For the present, however, he strikes a balance: " [We] have no nightingales, but also have no serpents; no moles, also no ballet; no Communist intelligentsia, but also no Catholic intelligentsia...
...finals, Willie Turnesa was tougher. The wind blew and thunder cracked overhead as he and Sam fought their way round 36 holes. As late as the 32nd hole Willie was i up. But Sam McCready dug into the old sod and finished with a birdie on the 35th to win the title, 2 and i. Said a Portmarnock Club official: "The kindly Irish weather came to our help." Said Sam, grasping the 2-ft. trophy: "Baby...