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Last Stand. Head's cannon ball and Hartwig's fine backhand won two quick sets despite one diehard net play from a reinvigorated Seixas. Coming back with his best performance of the afternoon, Trabert belted a two-handed push volley past the astonished Australians, smashed ahead to win the fourth set and tie up the match...
...fifth set, Trabert and Seixas thrice came within a stroke of breaking Head's service. But the Aussies did not falter. The end came when Seixas, serving, put two in the net. His next serve was successfully returned by Head's erratic backhand. Hartwig's backhand volley drove one in the alley; Trabert reached for it, slid to the grass, and the game was over. The match and the Davis Cup were Australia's. Said Australia's balding, jut-jawed Captain Harry Hopman: "We are very much relieved...
...Party, which lost out to Tubman's True Whig Party in the elections last month. Police rounded up 28 opposition-party stalwarts and set out to find David Coleman, their national chairman. At Coleman's rubber farm 30 miles from Monrovia, the posse was greeted with a volley of machine-gun fire. Two of the expedition were killed, four others wounded. The cops set fire to Coleman's house as its defenders disappeared among the rubber trees. There was no sign of Coleman...
...invention, new fur gloves, a quarter cask of rum and his painting kit. rode off at the head of his company of 81 men. Peale, a green militiaman, found his first view of the face of the war "a hellish sight." Standing up to his first volley (discharged from British muskets outside Princeton), Peale noted with surprise the "balls which whistled their thousand different notes around our heads, and what is very astonishing did little or no harm." After returning the fire three times, Peale's men saw the enemy formed near the college take to their heels. Wrote...
Holworthy defeated Grays yesterday afternoon at Hemenway to take the Freshman intramural volley ball championship. The winners, showing excellent teamwork, were extended three games by the Grays team...