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...open championships. The effect should be stimulating to amateurs but even more so to professionals. A pro will have to be good to get and keep a reputation under the new system, whereas before there was no way of telling whether a pro were really capable of a good brand of tennis or not. The amateurs too will have the added spur of knowing that it is really the world's championship they are playing for instead of a mere title...
...Petroleum Securities Co. (a Doheny concern), wasting 30 million cubic feet of gas per day. Vainly have the Kettleman operators tried to get the Felix well to reduce production. As Secretary Wilbur was traveling back to Washington, he read news of a terrific explosion at the Petroleum Securities brand-new plant for removing gasoline from "wet gas," a disaster which killed a foreman, destroyed a $500,000 plant and sent up 25,000 bbls. of stored gasoline in flames...
...fears overweight finds keen interest in this new and common sense way to keep a slender, fashionable figure,' 'Women retain slender figure,' and . . . 'Overweight is banished,' when in truth and in fact . . . reduction of flesh . . . will not necessarily result from smoking of respondents' brand of cigarets." The respondent agreed to stop misleading statements and to announce as such all paid-for testimonials...
...MacDonald Smith, Johnny Farrell, Al Espinosa. Leo Diegel was the resident professional. When the tournament was postponed for six days because of rain one-eyed Tommy Armour and a few others had to go home. Then the rain stopped and the cups were set into the greens on the brand-new course on which, until the first tournament competitor started over it, no one had ever played a stroke. The qualifying round was notable chiefly for the bad golf played. At the end of the first round Sarazen was fourteenth. When he started the last round he was fifth...
...lash of extremists, harsh and restrictive measures are adopted toward scientific and industrial groups [using alcohol], we will witness a terrific blow to scientific and commercial progress. . . . The crippling of our institutions, our medical arts and our commercial organizations . . . is too big a price to pay for this extreme brand of Prohibition...