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...brow-as round and far more sunburned than the Capitol dome- of Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher. The venerable Senator might have been spared that ordeal. He might have returned to his constituents and sat with proper refreshment under the palm trees where the Atlantic laps on Florida's coral strand. His age, 74, entitled him to that surcease. Forty years as a holder of public office-in the Florida Legislature, as Mayor of Jacksonville, as U. S. Senator (for 24 consecutive years )-have dowered him richly with the privileges of seniority. Yet he stayed in Washington...
...muleback, canoe and raft. Once a hostile Indian tribe led him into virgin orchid territory after he had cured a sick child with a dose of patent cough medicine. Another time, looking closely into a new orchid, he met the stare of a deadly little red coral snake. Once he camped on a little island in the great Orinoco River, his orchids all boxed on their rafts for the trip home. Flood, freshets boomed down the river, lifted Lager, rafts and orchids and set them on land 400 mi. downstream. Since the U. S. embargo he has stopped hunting except...
...Paul Runyan, White Plains, N. Y., golf professional: the Florida Year-Round Clubs' $5,000 Open Tournament, played over the Miami Biltmore course, with six-inch cups on the putting greens; at Coral Gables, Fla. Runyan's score-69, 64. 65, 68-266-was 18 under par, ten strokes better than Charles Guest, of Deal, N. J., who finished second. In a field of 61, an average of nine players finished under 70 on each round...
...Gene Sarazen, holder of the U. S. and British Open Golf Championships: a 72-hole match against Olin Dutra, U. S. professional champion, for the "unofficial championship of the world"; score: 11 up, 10 to play; at Coral Gables...
...Hotel at Coral Gables and has bathed it in the same sort of publicity which enabled one-man Henry L. Doherty & Co. to sell Cities Service securities to half a million people. From Manhattan the Florida Year-Round Club's special train runs weekly to the hotel with an orchestra, a gymnasium, a miniature pool for pretty girls in bathing suits, a hostess, a bridge professional. Some sport event is scheduled for almost every day of the season. Fortnight ago Oilman Doherty watched the best girl swimmers of the land. Last week he was official host...