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...England's No. i player, wearing a floppy white duck hat and a flaring pair of white flannel shorts, won his first match easily. Edward Burns Jr. of Brooklyn won the longest championship set of the day-20-18- against E. D. Yeomans of last year's crack North Carolina team. . . . Richard Norris Williams II, national champion in 1914 and 1916, whose tennis is still beautiful to behold, had a good day against young Marco Hecht-8-6, 6-4, 6-4. . . . Frankie Parker, the Milwaukee 16-year-old, put out a wily Japanese, Sadakaza Onda...
Play began with Scotch (two-ball) foursomes. Paired with slim young George T. Dunlap Jr. against the crack British pair of long-driving John Stout and John Burke, champion of Ireland who signs his first name "Sean," Ouimet's putting helped his partner win four of the first five holes. The match was over at the 30th, with Ouimet & Dunlap 7 up. Captain Thomas Arthur ("Tony") Torrance of the British team and John De Forest, British Amateur champion, did very little better. They lost to Gus Moreland (in vited to join the U. S. team while he was winning...
...unfamed, he started shooting in 1912, gave it up in disgust at his inefficiency in 1917, started to shoot again four years ago. Last year he won his first big tournament, the Illinois State Handicap. Last week, after waiting for several other shooters who knew his posted score to crack when they had a chance to tie it, he won his second, and the Grand American purse...
After ten weeks of stormy trial, Chicago's John Bain, 64-year-old founder of a chain of twelve small banks that failed at one crack last year (TIME, June 22, 1931), was last week convicted of conspiracy to defraud depositors. Scottish immigrant, onetime plumber, Bankster Bain had prospered in real estate, then branched into banking. Before the Depression, his Midas reputation spread widely among the clerks and laborers of Chicago's Southside districts. Unsound real estate promotions, wholesale juggling of assets among his various banks, whisked over his house of cards. When the banks crashed with deposits...
Cool Competition. Pioneer in railway air-conditioning is Baltimore & Ohio. It has equipped all the cars of its 27-hr. Manhattan-St. Louis train with airconditioning, as a bid against the crack 22-hr, trains of New York Central and Pennsylvania over the same route...