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Fifteen acres of forest near Brown University will soon be cleared and levelled to make a new college athletic field, according to a statement issued by Mr. Paul C. de Wolfe of Providence, chairman of the Brown University Athletic Field Committee...
...Calvin Coolidge, President of the U. S., was first of the monarchs of the forest to tremble last week before the insidious chill of the approaching season. The Senators from Pennsylvania, George Wharton Pepper and David A. Reed, called at the White House. Mr. Pepper is sometimes referred to as " the best lawyer in the Senate "; Mr. Reed, although young, is rated as an able lawyer. On leaving the President, they "put their legal heads together and devised the following unincriminating statement...
...Forest Hills, L. I., only a tennis net separated the East and the West. With the intersectional title at stake, Williams, Tilden, Johnson, Richards of the East successfully bombarded Johnston, Griffin, the two Kinseys in singles. Johnston and Griffin "took the West's one point in doubles play against Williams and Washburn (Harvard graduates). Match score...
Maurice Hewlett (Jan. 22, 1861), English novelist, poet, critic. The Forest Lovers, a medieval romance published in 1898, established Hewlett's reputation in a field in which, despite the wave of imitation that followed its success, he still remains among the most eminent. Other medieval novels include Richard Yea-and-Nay, The Song of Renny and The Queen's Quair, which deals with Mary, Queen of Scots...
...Davis Cup will remain on the American mantelpiece for another twelve months. Yet for the first two days at Forest Hills the cup was dangerously near the edge and at one point seemed about to topple off. In the first day's play Captain James O. Anderson of the Australian challengers administered to William M. Johnston his first defeat in four years of Davis Cup play. The same day William T. Tilden, II, defeated James Hawkes, Australia, and the series was evened. The following day occurred the longest and bitterest tussle ever played in Davis Cup competition. After falling...