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...Coach Forest Rittgers issued a denial that Student Groh had been forced to enter the cross-country race. During all the autumn of 1929, said he, Student Groh had worked out voluntarily...
...Will Caton's history to doubt him. Last week's was the first Hambletonian he had ever won but he had won every other important trotting race in the world, most of them several times. He was born near Cleveland, where his father owned part of the Forest City Stock Farm. Three races he won at the Chicago World's Fair, when he was 16, caused the Grand Duke Nicholas to invite him to Russia. For eleven years Will Caton drove Tsar Nicholas' trotters, won the Moscow Derby eight times and the Grand Prix at Paris...
...return to make the U. S. championship a financial success, was piqued. There were reports that if Mrs. Moody went abroad again next year she would pay her own way. Meanwhile, on the green blanket of turf that lies between the railroad tracks and the neat suburban cottages of Forest Hills, galleries slimmer than they have been for the last five years saw a week of pleasant ladies' tennis that contained only one major surprise...
...Wood, seeing the one glaring weakness in Vines's game, fed him slow balls for three sets. Since then, Vines has learned how to handle slow balls as well as fast ones. Last summer he won every tournament he played in, wound up with the U. S. championship at Forest Hills. This year he set out to perfect his chop, to be as versatile as Tilden. Not until the last rounds at Wimbledon did he get back firmly on his driving game. Then he beat Jack Crawford of Australia and Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin of England on successive days with...
...unwilling to evict them. The Trust's income and securities both began to fall. The securities were sold to pay the bond issue. Bank loans were called. Mrs. McCormick met her obligations but in doing so had to place a $220,000 mortgage on her Lake Forest home and a $557,500 mortgage on the mansion at No. 1000 Lake Shore Drive which was a wedding present from her father. Now, on sunny days, she sometimes leaves the Drake to cross the Drive and enter the garden of her closed home. She must often muse over the scenes behind...