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...recently cut 10%, will receive another 10% cut to gether with all other S. P. men getting $10,000 or more. Completely shelved by the changes wall be Henry Wheeler De Forest, board chairman. His position will be abolished although he remains a director and on the executive committee. Net result of the changes, putting Hale Holden in supreme command, follows the trend of all roads toward simplification of control...
...Last week Liberty announced with pride a net profit of $103,222 for the past five months, first profit ever shown by the magazine into which Publishers McCormick & Patterson are supposed to have sunk $12,000,000 before Bernarr Macfadden acquired it in April...
...backhand, weak the day before, was suddenly a magnificent offensive stroke. His drives lashed the uttermost corners of Crawford's back court. Crawford said afterward that Vines's first serve "seemed to hit the court the same instant it left the racket." Vines followed it to the net and smashed Crawford's returns so hard that the ball kicked up tufts of grass. Crawford put socks over his shoes in the second set. Like his gestures with his racket, it did no good. When Vines had won, 6-2, 6-1, 6-3, he remarked...
...Last week 64 roads had reported their May results. Gross revenues were $235,000,000, a 30.8% decrease from last year while net operating income was $9,965,000, a drop of 73%, worst so far reported for any month this year. For the first five months gross revenue was down 26%, net operating income 50%. Twenty-seven of the reporting roads showed deficits. Among the losers was New York Central which, despite a reduction of $6,000,000 in expenses, fell $226,000 short of earning anything at all on its bonds, bank loans and R. F. C. loan...
...Grant, No. 1 on the North Carolina team which this year and last won 45 matches in a row against Yale, Harvard, Navy, Army, N. Y. U., et al, played the defending champion, Keith Gledhill ot Stanford, in the semifinal. For two sets Grant kept Gledhill away from the net by passing him every time he tried to come up He let Gledhill win the third set but he was trying hard to win the fourth when Gledhill had set-point and lost it three times Finally Grant won the game to make it 6-all, ran out the next...