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...presidency of small Franklin College four years ago. Twelve years before that Education had stolen him from professional baseball, a career on which he launched, immediately after his graduation from Austin College (Sherman, Tex.), as star pitcher of the Galveston team in the Texas League. A top-notch tennist, Dr. Rainey has often been seen wandering through the dormitories of whatever college he happened to head, looking for a student to trim. In his four years at Bucknell he has made news by scrambling the curriculum to make room for more creative work in art, music, literature...
...Nobody will give Perry a run." Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., who thus expressed last month the gist of expert opinion on the U. S. Singles Championship, flatly contradicted himself at Forest Hills, N. Y. last week. When Allison and Fred Perry, world's No. 1 amateur tennist for the past two years, started to rally before their match in the semifinals, the crowd dubiously hoped that Allison would be able to do as well as he had a year ago, when he carried Perry to five sets. No one expected him to do more. When they left...
Married. Frederick John Perry, 26, British tennist; and Helen Vinson, 27, cinemactress, daughter of a Texas oil executive; day after Tennist Perry lost to Wilmer Allison in the semi-finals of the U. S. Singles Championship at Forest Hills; by a Justice of the Peace, in Harrison...
Frankie Parker is a 19-year-old tennist from Milwaukee. Two years ago, his promise made such a profound impression upon Mercer Beasley that that famed coach not only undertook to improve his game but legally adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville. Last week, at Forest Hills, N. Y., Frankie Parker played Champion Fred Perry in the fourth round of the National Men's Singles Championship and lost, 4-6, 2-6, 0-6. Other things being equal, he should therewith have disappeared from public notice. Instead it rained for four days...
Engaged. Jean ("Bounding Basque") Borotra, French tennist; and Mme Edouard Barrachin, Biarritz socialite. For M. Borotra it will be a first marriage...