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Every tournament brings up some new player. The one at Hillcrest was a giant Californian, Fred Morrison, who made 15 threes during the 36-hole qualifying round and won the medal with 136, four better than Diegel. Before long he disappeared into the traps that medalists so often discover in...
Well known to many a fly-fishing U. S. banker and moose-shooting U. S. broker, is shockheaded, barrel-chested David Courtois, Canadian guide. For years Guide Courtois was guardian of the Triton Club, exclusive Quebec fish and game preserve, one share of stock in which (necessary for membership) is...
In mid-July Trapper Courtois was brought back to Roberval by some fire rangers, so weak he could scarcely guide his canoe. In midwinter, he said, he had sent his boys ahead to their base camp with 50 pounds of flour, a moose flank and half a beaver while he...
Chess matches, unlike engagements of brawn, can be reproduced bodily. Experts, meditatively recapitulating the tournament games from published scores, opined that the one between Nimzowitsch and Dr. Milan Vidmar, Rector of the University of Ljubljana and eminent professor of electrodynamics, best illustrated the art and strategy of the new champion...
With Emerson's* famed precept about the world's beating a path to the door, however remote, of the best mouse-trap maker, Mr. Sarnoff does not agree. Having seen and exploited many an invention, he says: "While the sylvan mouse-trap maker is waiting for customers and...