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Newport. The lustre of tennis week at Newport was dimmed by the absence of Champion Tilden and W. M. Johnston and by the sputter of fairer fireworks in the women's nationals at Forest Hills. The matches most talked about were the default to Vincent Richards by R. Norris Williams when within a point of victory* and the subsequent defeat of Richards by Harvey Snodgrass (latest California star) in the semifinals. Howard Kinsey dislodged Snodgrass and took the title at 6?4, 4?6, 6?0, 9?7. With his brother, Robert, Howard Kinsey also secured the doubles championship...
Henry Hull and Robert Strange sputter through the action as the losing lovers. They bandy back and forth the old humors of jealousy?fighting beneath the outward mein of repression in the presence of their mistress. They are both insufferable egotists, and the author derives much laughter from their self-approbation...
Boyhood's friendships blaze and sputter...
...triumph of our crew and the addition to Harvard's trophies of two sets of colors arouses a little, feeble interest, which cannot call together a meeting of respectable numbers, and kindles one pitiable spark of enthusiasm, which flickers in a single weak cheer and goes out without a sputter. No more interest, no more enthusiasm, has been manifested over the achievements of the nine...