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...League contests, the Crimson have come to bat 214 times and have pounded out 60 hits for a 283 average average, good enough to pace the loop in this department. The boys haven't shown up so badly afield either, for they have handled 242 chances with but ten miscues. This record gives them a mark of .960, the second best fielding average compiled in the League to date. But for the Cornell debacle, the Stahlmen would be coasting along with an average about 20 percentage points higher...
Regular shortstop Keyes suffered a charley-horse when he crashed into Chief Boston at the plate Thursday before vacation, and played under a handicap in his sole appearance afield. He is expected to be close to top shape by the Columbia game Saturday...
...back into plush upholstery, forgetting the tremendous bellows of Hollywood publicity that are building up Nancy Kelly into stardom and the sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch of the Navy as the real hero. So they escape some of the soggier romance of Boy and Girl. The scene where the sub-chaser sneaks through the mine-filled...
...Mashi-pacong), is surrounded by 25,000 acres of State parks and forests. With stone and timber on the land, Dr. Sharp is building a village, erecting a year-round girls' camp and a centre where camp leaders will be trained to spread the Sharp camping plan farther afield...
...politician who considered himself a Jeffersonian made principles of what were only methods to the sage of Monticello. Tracing this division through the familiar story of Jackson and the Bank of the United States, to Bryan's part in Wilson's nomination, Author Agar often wanders far afield but enlivens his account with pungent political sermons. Indifference, self-seeking, the vulgarization of politics outrage him most, and the apathy of citizens before political corruption he considers one of democracy's great dangers: "the wages of cynicism," says he, "is death...