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...Arrest. Captain Kendall Fielder, of the headquarters staff in the District of Columbia, early one morning last week strode into an apartment building known as the Anchorage, and made an arrest. The prisoner was his friend, Colonel William Mitchell. The prison was the District of Columbia which Colonel Mitchell was ordered not to leave during the period of his court martial...
...account of his misdeeds to the Rector of his college. Flinging on a bathrobe and whistling to his great boar hound, he sought that worthy, en deshabille. Becoming annoyed during the conversation which ensued, he picked up the Rector's inkstand, flung it at his head, missed, and strode from the office with the boar hound at heel...
British Professional. Round the course at Moor Park, England, strode the finalists in a British...
...women's tennis-Miss Helen Wills, Miss Elizabeth Ryan, Miss Mary K. Browne, Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mailory , Miss Eleanor Goss, Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup-entered the Metropolitan Women's Turf Court Championship, strode through to the round before the semi-final without defeat. Then Miss Goss, placed at No. 4 in the National ranking, was the worm that turned against Miss Mary K. Browne, No. 2, brought her down, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Miss Wills sprang to revenge her doubles partner, handily defeated Miss Goss, 6-1, 6-2. Then occurred another upset. Miss Ryan...
...Championship, dextrous Dexter Cummings of Omventsia (Lake Forest, Ill.), onetime Intercollegiate Champion (1923, 1924), bore witness to his manhood (last month he was graduated by Yale University) by bashing his way around the 6,780-yard Lochmoor links in 68 strokes. After a good night's sleep, he strode forth again and bashed out a 70-138 for 36 holes, a "world's record" for tournament play...