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...other New York Governors won their party's Presidential nomination: John Jay, George Clinton, Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden, Charles Evans Hughes, Alfred E. Smith...
...gallery is likely to be 30-year-old veteran Sidney Wood. Two favorites for National Championship honors are the two-hander Francisco Segura of Ecuador and southpaw Seymour Greenberg, graduate of the public parks. At their best, none of these can touch the all-round brilliancy of Big Bill Tilden or Fred Perry, the pyrotechnic power of Ellsworth Vines, the high-gearing of Donald Budge. It will be a season of ghosts and neophytes, with the color and substance on the side of the ghosts...
Never a slugger, court strategist Dick Sears pit-patted his way to seven U.S. championships (a record since equaled by Larned and Tilden but never broken). He also won the national doubles six times (five of them with James Dwight). At Wimbledon he played only once, was soundly beaten in an early round. Injuries he suffered in a collision with a doubles partner ended Dick Sears's lawn tennis career at his prime (25). Thereupon he took up its less strenuous ancestor, court tennis, and became the first U.S. champion at that. Despite a scarcity of opponents, Dick Sears...
What Man o' War was in racing and Big Bill Tilden in tennis, 24-year-old Chicagoan Adolph Kiefer has been in backstroke swimming. He holds every world's backstroke record, in nine years never lost a race. But as it must to most rulers, dethroning came to Kiefer last week. In the National A.A.U. swimming meet in Manhattan, Kiefer, now a Chief Specialist at the Norfolk Naval Training Station, finally lost a 150-yard backstroke race to a 6 ft. 5 in. Michigan sophomore named Harry Holiday...
...general the Committee report was well received by New York City educators. Said Legislative Representative Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers Guild, who is also Samuel Tilden High School's Principal: "The report contains many admirable recommendations. If they could be enforced and all that money saved, it would be a miracle. There is danger that unjustified optimism may lead the Legislature to cut State aid to schools." The Legislature now has an opportunity to act on the Committee recommendations...