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...Longwood Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) that the national doubles wreath ought to hang on the Golden Gate beside Helen Wills' national singles, doubles and Olympic foliage and the numerous, though more withered, prizes of Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy, Maurice E. Mc-Laughlin, "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin...
...Newport, a banished king put on something of his former splendor. This was "Little Bill" Johnston, holder of the national championship in 1915 and 1919. He deposed Harvey Snodgrass, 1923 winner of the Newport Casino invitation singles and, paired with C. J. ("Peck") Griffin (his former national doubles championship partner), seemed about to dismiss two other Californians, the omnipresent Kinsey brothers, from the doubles. That match had gone ding-dong for four sets and nine games when Robert Kinsey, on a stretching "get", was crippled with cramps, had to default...
...Executive Council of his Federation of Labor in favor of indorsing LaFollette and Wheeler he ceased to be the leading figure in the American labor movement, or, rather, by his own act he recognized that that leadership had passed from him to. others. He was trailing after Johnston of the Machinists, Stone of the Engineers' Brotherhood, Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and several others who were quicker than he had been to see how the bloc tendency in American politics suited the purposes of organized Labor. It was they -not Gompers-who had made Labor the factor...
...Manhattan, both "seeded" in the draw. Lucien E. Williams, droll Chicagoan, overthrew Fritz Mercur of Philadelphia, Longwood Bowl winner; Willard Crocker, Canadian Davis Cup captain; Harvey Snodgrass, of California, No. 9 in national ranking. Howard Kinsey took the finals from his fellow Californian, jaunty, courageous, diminutive William M. Johnston, No. 2 in national ranking, onetime National and World's Champion. (Johnston was not "through." He had yielded up his tonsils five weeks before...
...hundred M.P.'s, male, signed a petition to Premier MacDonald asking that pictures of living subjects of His Majesty should not be hung in the Houses of Parliament without Parliament's consent. In the Chamber of the House, the joft murmurs grew to audible agitation. Thomas Johnston, Laborite, asked by whose authority the picture had been hung. The Right Hon. F. W. Jowett, First Commissioner of Works, answered that permission to hang the picture was given by his Conservative predecessor, Sir John Baird. He assured the House that its present position could not be regarded as permanent...