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...what followed. Vines made ten double-faults. He pushed his drives out of court, angled his volleys past the sidelines. Then, the speed of his game lowered by Auteuil's slow clay and the slow French balls, he tried to match Austin's gentle, foxy placements. The net seemed to reach out for his drives; the baseline drew in for his lobs. He made 92 errors in the course of the match. When Austin was ahead, two sets, 5-4 and 40-15, Vines make a magnificent kill at the net. It looked then for one moment...
Vines came out on the court white with nervous fatigue, his sides taped and a bandage on the ankle he had twisted two days before. He won the first set 6-1, netted most of his shots as he lost the second without taking a game, outplayed Perry in the third, 6-4. and was ahead at 3-2 in the fourth when he fell, trying to recover one of Perry's cross-court drives. Obviously hurt, he managed to finish the set, which Perry won 7-5. Vines's service and the pace he gave his drives...
...Rumor ran wild: the Exchange was going to close; speculators were jumping out of windows; President Roosevelt had had an apoplectic stroke the night before; he had died at noon and was being laid out in the White House! Then a little hope came back, prices rallied, but the net fall of the Dow Jones average for industrials was 7.55 for the day. In three days the average had lost 19.96 points of its 59 gained since March...
...experience. And by the unchanged Rule of Three, any of the three top men in the "examination" remains eligible for appointment. Moreover, should he so wish, the Postmaster-General was still authorized to throw out the whole first list and call for another from the Civil Service Commission. Real net effect of the "reform" is to strengthen the Postmaster-General's grip on patronage against grasping, ignorant local machine bosses. President
...flying piece of stoney-bread; a food which conveniently supplied both the issue of the war and the ammunition. But the meek reception by the students this year of the news that the University, attempting to run its dining halls on a no-profit basis, had inadvertently made a net haul of $40,000 proves that the old-days are indeed gone forever...