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...Cambridge victory, 13th since the War, made a record: it was the first time in the 104-year history of an event properly and completely described as "The Boat Race" that either crew had won ten times in a row. Last year, in a sporting effort to make the boat race more of a contest, Brigadier J. H. Gibbon, famed oldtime Cambridge "Blue" and amateur rowing coach, went to Oxford to see what was the matter. This year Brigadier Gibbon was helped by W. Palmer Mellen, young New Yorker who stroked the Oxford crew that won in 1923. Puzzled...
...illustrate rot in the national fibre, Poet O'Neil introduces an incongruous parade of vicious types, an interpolation wooden enough to make a 13th Century miracle play seem like a production by Noel Coward. All four sexes are represented, besides a Banker, a Society Boy, a Negro Poet, an Indian Lecturer, an Agitator, a Sweet Old Thing. It is not surprising that these, and his thrill-chasing wife, drive young Daniel to self-destruction as the curtain falls...
...Merion (Pa.) Cricket Club last week, four of the seven members of the British team were still in the draw. Next day, the only American left was Ruth Hall of Merion, runner-up for the title last year, winner in 1931. sister of J. Gilbert Hall, onetime 13th ranking U. S. lawn tennis player. Against Susan Noel, 20-year-old British champion who learned squash racquets from her father when she was so young she does not remember it. Miss Hall began with the fatal mistake of trying to outdrive her opponent. After losing the first game...
...Monstrous Primo Camera: his fight against Ernie Schaaf for the right to a world's championship bout against Jack Sharkey; by a knockout in the 13th round; in Manhattan. Schaaf, hospitalized immediately after the fight, recovered consciousness after 1 hr. and 45 min., developed an intracranial hemorrhage. Sports-reporters, incorrigibly skeptical about all Camera's doings, first described the knockout as a fake, hastily acknowledged its authenticity three days later when doctors operated to remove a blood clot from Schaaf's brain. Schaaf, 24, never rallied, died early next morning...
Died. Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 45, second daughter of U. S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson; after an operation for a gall bladder disorder; in Boston. Her 1913 marriage to Francis Bowes Sayre (now Harvard law professor, Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction) was the 13th White House marriage...