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...possible to enable him to keep in the game at no loss to himself. On his return he asks from the association ?500 for losses in business and otherwise owing to his absence in America." Under the amateur rules it was of course, impossible to grant Anderson's request, although the Association would doubtless have been glad enough to do so. Unless he changes his mind, the Australian Davis Cup Team will lose the man who last September brilliantly defeated William M. Johnson, and gave Tilden a run for his money...
...subject to the agreement of the Yale authorities. It was also voted to change the dates of the baseball games with Princeton, so that the game in Princeton would be played on May 17 and the one in Cambridge on May 24. This vote was taken at the request of Princeton on account of the fact that the Childs Cup Race is to be held at Princeton...
...Republican National Committee came together in Washington and decided that the Republican National Convention would meet on June 10, 1924, at Cleveland. The choice of the convention city was made among three contenders, Chicago (the favorite) having dropped out at the request of the Administration, (TIME, Dec. 17). The vote was: Cleveland 39; San Francisco 10; Des Moines...
...remark he sent through Collier's Weekly in response to a typically American request for his views on Santa Claus. The remark was: "Santa Claus be bio wed!?(signed) G. Bernard Shaw, Adelphi Terrace, London...
...Bordeaux, it was announced that the late Joseph Leon Vasquez, a citizen of that city, had inserted the following clause in his will: "Make sure that I am really dead by having my head cut off in the presence of all my heirs." M. Vasquez's request was carried out faithfully. After the decapitation the head was again sewn to the body and placed in the coffin...