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...Racquet Club of Philadelphia, Clarence C. Pell and Stanley G. Mortimer, Manhattan racqueters, won the U. S. racquets doubles championship for the ninth straight year. They defeated Jay Gould (for 19 years U. S. singles court tennis champion) and Stanley W. Pearson of Philadelphia...
More than ten years have passed since the Treaty of London was signed (1913), when the Powers set the boundary of Turkey-in-Europe along a line drawn from Enos on the Aegean Sea to Medea on the Black Sea. The Powers should have fixed a straight line, because, a little later, the Turks successfully upheld their claim to territory within a curved line that took in Adrianople...
...Scott, playing number two on the Blue team, was the only, Yale man to win a game, although he lost to G. D. Debevoise '26 3 to 1. The other four matches went to the University racquet wielders in straight games...
...half-breed. In 1832, President Jackson sent him on a mission to the Indians of Teras. Jackson remarked: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor." Indeed, Houston looked it: 6 ft. 3 in. in moccasins, straight as an arrow, with deep, flashing eyes, high forehead, dressed like a frontiersman in leggings, hunting shirt and coonskin...
...Moon, the Earth, traveling in their accustomed courses came, for a brief space of time, into a straight line. The Moon, being the middle member of the three, shielded parts of the Earth from the Sun's rays. Then the three moved out of line and the eclipse had passed...