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...present the only Tongs fighting, are the Hip Sings, the On Leongs. Many others exist;?the Hong Tuck Tong, made up of cigar makers; the Gum Longs, of fishermen on the Sacremento river; the Gin Sin Sear, founded by Little Pete, famed Chinese badman; the Bo Sin Sear, its rival; the Suey Sings, the Juke Lums, Om Yicks, Bing Kongs. The war of 1905 brought in twelve tongs on one side, nine on the other. Remembering this, police commissioners in all cities stationed double patrols, last week, in their Chinatowns...
Next day Miss Kathleen McKane, Wimbleton winner, played a nip and tuck match with Miss Elizabeth Ryan. When Miss Ryan took a tuck in her skirt, Miss McKane helped herself to a nip from a glass under the umpire's chair, pulled out the victory, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. Miss Goss and Mrs. Mallory won; Miss Wills ended the hopes of the precocious Fry. In the doubles, Miss Goss and Mrs. Jessup put out Miss McKane and Miss Colyer, the English Davis Cup pair who had been favored to reach the finals...
...Litchfield, Conn., daughter of H. J. Corning, Professor of Medicine in the University of Basle, Switzerland; Mrs. Howell H. Howard of Dayton, Ohio; Miss Irene Jamieson, Spokane, Wash., Oxford student; Mrs. Archibald H. Rowan, Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.; Miss Laura Thompson, Lake Forest, Ill..; Mrs. Alexander Tuck of Maryland and Mrs. Wallace Payne Moats of Mexico City...
...formerly of the dancing team of Nip and Tuck, is now playing in "The Grab Bag". He is coaching the chorus of the Hasty Pudding show between his Boston performances. In an interview at his dressing room last night he declared, "There's no reason why I ought to be proud of those boys, but I am, for they're good...
This dancing is under the direction of Thomas, Nip, formerly of the vaudeville team of Nip and Tuck, and now with Ed Wynn in his new show "The Grab Bag." Mr. Nip is warm in his praise of the chorus dancing, declaring "they know more steps and do them better than the girls in any show in town...