They stood near the rail, an infirm man and his only child, and said their goodbyes. As they were speaking, one of the ship’s enormous smokestacks came crashing down. Dick darted out of the way. Charles was crushed, instantly killed. At that point Dick jumped into the ocean.

In the April 2 Sports Illustrated, L. Jon Wertheim has a fascinating story about two Hall of Fame tennis players who survived the sinking of the Titanic, played each other three months later and never quite revisited their ordeal on the ocean.