Last week an item concerning Jay Gould, for 19 years the world's court tennis champion, appeared on the front pages of several metropolitan newspapers. The story of his life and his athletic successes was recounted with much picturesque detail, prefaced by the sad particulars of his recent and disastrous illness. His photograph also—a plump, animated, swarthy face with a short mustache and a very round high forehead—was published near the stock photograph of Henry Miller, the actor (see MILESTONES), who had died on the same...
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