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Married. Wilhelmina du Pont, daughter of William K. du Pont (explosives) of Wilmington, Del.; to Donald P. Ross of Chestnut Hill...
...down under.' " Racqueteer-Writer Tilden was reporting the straight set victory of George M. Lott Jr. & John F. Hennessey, U. S. netsters, over Frenchmen Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon, in the semi-final round. The following day Lott & Hennessey came out on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeated the Australian team, Gerald L. Patterson & John B. Hawkes, by the identical score of the victory over the French...
...late Frances E. Willard planted two saplings, 70 years ago, and cried: "As these two horse chestnut trees grow and spread their branches, so the cause of temperance shall grow and spread throughout all the world." Miss Willard was the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The two trees in the yard of her home at Evanston, Ill. (now the headquarters of the W. C. T. U.) did grow, and now they are rotting. Last week, tree surgeons were busy anointing, repairing and healing the two trees...
...Frances W. Capper made a hole-in-one at the Chestnut Hill Golf Club in Brookline, Mass. Then, just for practice, she took another shot from the same tee and, after a brisk walk of 150 yards, picked two balls out of the same...
Preliminary races were on the flat, at varying distances up to half a mile. Climax: a quarter-mile steeplechase over low hurdles, won by a nimble, auburn-haired young woman whom shameless Berlin sports writers did not scruple to call "a chestnut filly...