Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1919 — CAPT. R. NORRIS WILLIAMS, FORMER TENNIS CHAMPION, WINS FRENCH HONORS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAPT. R. NORRIS WILLIAMS, FORMER TENNIS CHAMPION, WINS FRENCH HONORS

Capt. R. Norris Williams, formerly national lawn tennis champion, who was a member of the American Davis cup team which captured the trophy from England, and in 1914 took the American title at Newport; has been awarded the French war cross. The decoration was given by General Requlchot 5E the “FFefich army. Captain Williams received decorations for distinguished service in the second battle of the Marne. Williams was a Harvard student, a Plattsburg candidate and went oyer early and took a course with a French battery, after which he helped to lay barrages. He was born at Geneva, Switzerland, and is twenty-eight years of age.

CAPT. R. NORRIS WILLIAMS.