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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Checker Championship piddled thus, played 32 drawn games. Came official threats to limit to 20 the number of games two players could draw without penalty. In the finals, after six draws, Asa Long of Toledo, Ohio, conquered 16-time drawer Louis C. Ginsberg of Brooklyn, N. Y...
Tennis. Eastern lawn (at Rye, N. Y.)- Singles, William Tatem Tilden II of Philadelphia; doubles, Tilden & Frank Hunter of New Rochelle, N. Y.; women's singles, Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, Mass.; women's doubles, Edith Cross & Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper of California. National junior (at Culver, Ind.)-Singles, Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, Cal.; doubles, Gledhill & Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena. National boys'-Singles, Jay Cohn of Santa Monica, Cal.; doubles, Cohn & C. R. Hunt of San Francisco...
Checkers. National (at Cedar Point, Ohio)-Asa Long of Toledo (see above). Bicycling. U. S. professional sprint (in The Bronx, N. Y.)-Freddie Spencer, Plainfield...
...alcoholic cutups. After Bellevue he summered in the Asylum for the Insane on Ward's Island in the East River. Thence, because zealous friends were seeing him without the family's permission, he was transferred to the exclusive Dr. McDonald's Sanitarium at Central Valley, N. Y., where in durance grand, at a reported cost of $200 a week, the family kept...
...partner of the late Dancer Maurice (Mouvet); to Samuel Katz, 37, potent president of Publix Theatres, of which there are 1,100, including Manhattan's gold-domed Paramount Theatre; in Stamford, Conn. For his bride Cinemagnate Katz is constructing a "city" on a hillside near Centenary, N. Y. It will contain lakes, bridges, swimming pools, 150-car garage, tennis courts, bowling alleys, a house that would cover an entire city block, a separate "hotel" for Katz guests...