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...Davis Cup team (Wilmer Allison, Francis Xavier Shields, John Van Ryn): American interzone finals against Brazil, 5 matches to 0; at Forest Hills...
...Wake Forest College LL.D...
...accounts began reaching the U. S. from Mr. Wees describing the miseries which he encountered in a neighborhood about 700 mi. west of Rio de Janeiro and 700 mi. north of Buenos Aires: "We spent days and nights hunting and when we shot nothing we were hungry in a forest of game. Braised alligator tail tastes like flaked codfish. Here spider webs enmesh birds. Ants drive us from our hammocks into a circle of ashes. The hordes of insects for which the region does not provide a living cause us night after night of sleeplessness. One especially virulent species...
...team was eliminated short of the final round. All the U. S. players, none of them high-rated, were soon put out. From the quarter-finals on, the play was almost entirely among unknowns over a deserted course in howling wind & rain. In the finals lucky John De Forest, last year's runner-up, son of Coal Tycoon Baron De Forest, defeated 22-year-old Eric Fiddian 3 & 1 in 6 hrs. 35 min. for the required 36 holes, the longest final in the tournament's history. The two boys were appointed at once to the last...
...Bevan's wealth, which permits him a capacious apartment on Chicago's Gold Coast, a house in Lake Forest and an annual junket to California, derives only in small part from his practice. In 1896 he married Anna L. Barber, sole heir to the late Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber (1841-1920). Dr. Bevan is a large stockholder, a potent director of the $42,000,000 Diamond Match...