Sport: Records: Oct. 8, 1928

Vincent Richards, famed professional tennis player, in the finals of the U. S. Professional Championship, beat Karel Kozeluh, probably the greatest tennis player in the world, who has not lost a match for eight years. The score was 8-6, 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Kozeluh took his shoes off after the second set and played in his stocking feet.

Lucky, socalled, a greasy and peculiar police-bitch, swam from Albany to Manhattan down the Hudson River in 44 hr., 52 min. Such human beings as have also swum from Albany to New York, though enraged to discover...

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