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...heart of northern Ontario's summer-resort country a jumble of big, rambling buildings sits on the crest of a rolling, wooded slope which rises from the shores of a blue lake. During World War I it was used as a recuperation camp for Canadian officers. After the war it was remodeled as a swank private sanatorium, which failed during the depression. Two months ago it underwent another metamorphosis. The Canadian Government surrounded it with barbed wire, set up sentry boxes, installed 300 Nazi prisoners...
...North Conway, N. H., up-&-coming Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Calif, trounced Chicago's 19-year-old Seymour Greenberg, public parks champion, 6-4, 6-1, 8-6, to win the second annual Eastern Slope Gold Racquet tournament...
Huge caves and shafts held mountains of food and ammunition, furnished air-raid protection. The town of 21,000 on the western slope was evacuated of noncombatants. Debarkation of all non-Allies was stopped last week and a Spanish ship plying across the bay from Algeciras was not allowed even to dock...
...start on the mound for the home-guard while hurler Ed Barry should go the route for the New England College champions. Coach Stahl's forces will be at full strength except for Captain Tom Healey. A sore flinging arm will keep him from his regular job on the slope and from his auxiliary role in the vacant right field spot. As a result either Lee Hartstone or Bill Parsons will take over in the outer reaches...
Captain Tom Healey and Charley Brackett will share the duties on the slope. Healey will go the first four or five frames, whereupon Charley Brackett, who proved his hurling effectiveness against Cornell, is scheduled to take over and finish out the game...