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Among aristocratic women, the game is particularly popular, a result not out of harmony with the comment of Owen Wiset's Virginian that Queen Elizabeth would have made a good poker player. Any woman who could fool a Spanish king certainly would not lose money to a cowboy...
...Author. Newton D. Baker, 54, West Virginian by birth, educated at Johns Hopkins, was City Solicitor and Mayor of Cleveland through a stirring municipal upheaval and Secretary of War during the Great War. He is short of stature,slim, dark, shell-spectacled. His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Saturday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes...
Died. Charles D. Skirdin, adventurous prototype of Novelist Owen Wister's famed "Virginian", redoubtable orphan, daredevil U. S. soldier, able woodsman; at a hospital in Reading...
...fine showing made a fortnight ago by the William and Mary eleven has entitled the Virginian team to another invitation to the Stadium...
...sport. The items told about Jim Thorpe, the Indian. One described how, after having failed, miserably, to get into condition, he was dropped by the New York Club with which he had been playing professional football. The second stated that he had married for solace a West Virginian named Freeda Kirkpatrick, had started west for his honeymoon...