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February 7, 1926

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FEW CHANGES MADE IN TENNIS SCHEDULE; Delegates of U.S.L.T.A. Dispose of Annual Business Speedily at Meeting Here. NO CONTROVERSIES RAISED New York Loses National Junior and Boys' Tournament to Baltimore This Year. FOREIGN TOURS ENDORSED Myrick's Proposal to Send Teams to England, France and Australia -- -- Finances Are Sound. FEW CHANGES MADE IN TENNIS SCHEDULE

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It was a strange and almost unprecedented scene that was enacted yesterday in the sun parlor atop the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, where delegates from the country over gathered for the forty-fifth annual meeting of the United States Lawn Tennis Association. Without the semblance of a verbal battle, with perfect harmony and unanimity, the delegates sat through the shortest and most peaceful session in forty years.

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Konstantin Feoktistov

1926Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2009)[โ€ ]

Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov, was Russian engineer and a cosmonaut in the former Soviet space program.