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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1924
Page
23
Helen Wills shows improving form at Wimbledon and prepares to meet Mrs. Edgington of England. The American star, noted for distance struggles, aims to overcome a strong field including Miss Colyer while defending her title prospects in the coming rounds.
Cleveland wins the fifth game of the series from Chicago 7 to 4 after a three run rally in the tenth inning. Leverette struggled, Cvengros and Blankenship failed to hold, and Cleveland erupted with timely hits to seal the win at Chicago.
Greenwich Conn June 26 Lauren Upson UC medalist in the qualifying round defeated W G Soule Harvard two up in the second round today The third round and the semi finals will be played tomorrow and she will walk on Saturday Dexter Cummings Yale titleholder won easily from T Cannon Pittsburgh seven and five W H Taft Dartmouth eliminated B Byrne Columbia three and two The only upset was H W Comstock Williams losing to B Mudge Princeton five and three Other second round winners were Stephen Berrien Wesleyan over Y M Batchelder Dartmouth Tour and three Louis Sovick Syracuse over H Briscoe Yale two up A G Davis Pittsburgh over F Wattles Yale three and two and J J Mapes Harvard over D W Stevens Pennsylvania five and three
Frei Teller, veteran Meriden bowler, won the state duck pin championship tournament held last week. Prize money totaled $250 for first place with runners up earning $159 and $120, while other top finishers included Joe Harper Waterbury and Paul Thompson New Britain among others.
In a swamp near Chatham New Jersey a 20 foot cedar bears a felt hat circling its trunk at five feet high. The trunk pierces the hat and two branches grew after impaling it. Experts estimate the tree would take over 60 years to expand enough to free the hat, which remains green and intact.
New York June 36 Luis Vicentini Chilean Lightweight will appear before the state commission to seek cancellation of his scheduled bout with Rocky Kansas at Queensboro, Long Island City on Monday. Abe Bersac, Vicentini manager, said heat and train grind have floored the South and the Chilean may be examined to determine fitness to enter the ring against the Buffalo lightweight.
New York June 16 Plans completed for the Harvard Yale Universities tennis squad to sail July 5 for England for club contests before meeting Oxford Cambridge in Westbourne August 2 4. The inter varsity team will sail on the Carmania and includes W Y Ingraham Alden Verd Arnold Watson Karl T as captain. The group expected to arrive in London July 14.
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