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...injury rather than their potentialities of skill, and the spectators as well as the governing bodies hesitate to recognize any form of sport in which a player is not likely to be seriously hurt. Men who have played both university football and first-class tennis admit that a five-set tournament match may be a more grueling affair than the most desperate of gridiron battles, but with broken bones, cuts and bruises eliminated, there are usually no external evidences of the punishment. Unfortunately, however, it is also possible for a tennis, player to be an absolute quitter...
...strike of 500,000 bituminous coal miners set for November 1 holds no serious menace for the University, it was stated recently by Mr. Burke, superintendent of buildings and grounds. Although at present a considerable amount of the coal used by the University is semi-bituminous, the grates in most cases are devised in such a way that anthracite coal, the production of which will be unaffected by the strike, can be used as well as soft coal...
Leon A. de Turenne '21, of Seattle, Wash., and Robert L. Lipman 3L, of Berkeley, Cal., were the winners yesterday in the doubles tournament, defeating Robert Rand 2L and William Rand 2L, of Rye, N. Y., in five hard-fought sets, 3--6, 7--5, 6--8, 6--3, 6--4. The New Yorkers put up a magnificent fight, and for a while in the fourth set they seemed to be sure of winning, but their opponents' greater court experience enabled them to be victorious. The net game of the Rand brothers was especially notable. Lipman excelled at serving, while...
Rand and Rand took the first set easiy, 6--3, with only three deuce games. The second and third were much closer, each player regularly taking the game on his own serve...
...second set Lipman managed to break through his opponents' service and won 7--5; in the third the Rand brothers staged a clever net rally and were the winners 8 to 6. The last two sets fell to the Westerners, although not without a spirited opposition on the part of Rand and Rand...