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...function of the Foreign Student Committee will largely depend upon the number of foreign students who are registered in Harvard this year, but a steady attempt will be made to facilitate a close understanding between foreign students and undergraduates. The details of the program will be announced later by Rolf Kaltenborn...
...will depend on Harlow's ability to develop this young material, such men as George Ford, Leo Ecker, Tommy Bilodeau, Emile Dubiel, and Arthur Oakes. All of these men have shown something on Freshman or last year's Varsity teams, but none are really finished, Grade A, foll-time players as yet. Ford didn't reach his peak until the Yale game last season and Bilodeau has never quite shown the super-performance of which he seems to be capable...
...choose to play singles against England. Budge, the red-haired 20-year-old Californian whose game has been the sensation of the season, could of course be taken for granted. That left Allison and Sidney Wood eligible for the other singles position. Since U. S. chances seemed to depend on winning both singles matches against England's stylistic little "Bunny" Austin, the choice which confronted Captain Wear seemed quite likely to decide possession of the Cup. Wood is a tennis genius who, almost unbeatable on his best days, can play like a second-rater on his bad days. Allison...
Because, if the U. S. won, its chance against England would depend largely on the newest, homeliest and youngest member of the team, interest in last week's round was largely concentrated on shambling, freckled, redhaired, 20-year-old Donald Budge of Oakland. Calif. When he went East for the first time last summer and put Bryan Grant out of the National Singles Championship. Budge was asked whether he hoped to make the Davis Cup team. Said he: "I'd be lucky to get on the Canary Island team. ... I'd rather play basketball than tennis anyway...
...Once his house was raided while he was dining the buyers of a stolen necklace; police found nothing, because "Cammi" dropped the necklace in his soup, calmly went on with his dinner. But when in 1913 "Cammi" Grizzard stole the Mayer pearls, worth ?123,000, he had to depend on unreliable allies to help dispose of them, and loud-mouthed Leisir Gutwirth gave him away. Amateur Detectives Brandstatter and Quadratstein led Gutwirth on, posed as buyers until they got in touch with Scotland Yard. Coached by detectives, a French diamond merchant carried on intricate negotiations with the thieves, bargained...