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Died. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner, 48, fictionist, playwright, sportswriter; of heart disease and tuberculosis; in "No Visitors, N.Y.," his home at East Hampton, L. I. Born in Niles, Mich., packed off to engineering college by his parents, he failed every course but rhetoric, did no better as a freight agent and gas company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle...
Francis Xavier Shields, No. 5 ranking U. S. tennist: a match from National Champion Ellsworth Vines, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, in the semi-finals of the Newport (R. I.) Casino Cup tournament, which Shields then won from Wilmer Allison, No. 2 in the rankings...
...robin for teams, one a draw tournament for individual champions in singles and doubles. That North Carolina would win the team championship against the three other teams entered was a foregone conclusion. Their score was seven points to one for Duke, one for Virginia, none for V. M. I. Wilmer Hines and Lenoir Wright. No. 1 and No. 2 for North Carolina, won the doubles title together and then played each other in the singles final. It was a match they had played many times before, on the same courts. Hines, steadier and stronger overhead, lost the first set. then...
...first day was the one set that small, slight Dr. Ricardo Tapia-who has been Mexican singles champion for the last five years, whose sister Maria is Mexico's woman champion and whose youngest brother Armando gives promise of becoming Mexico's best player-won from Wilmer Allison, in a match that Allison had to stir his stumps to win, 4-6, 6-3. 6-4. 6-4. Next day the U. S. team of George Lott & John Van Ryn disposed of Eduardo Mestre, whose father founded the Mexican Lawn Tennis Association, and Alfonso Unda, a onetime caddy...
...Judd Gray crushed his skull with a sash weight (TIME. April 4, 1927, et seq.}. Driving from the crime she tried to enhearten Judd Gray with a slug of whiskey. "That whiskey." said Dr. Gettler, "was loaded with bichloride of mercury. Sweet woman." Both murderers have been electrocuted. Wilmer Stultz, flyer who carried Amelia Earhart on her first trip across the Atlantic, was drunk, his brain subsequently proved to Toxicologist Gettler, when he killed himself and two passengers in a Long Island crash. Eben McBurney Byers. the Pittsburgh industrialist who died after prolonged drinking of radium water (TIME. April...