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...suggestion has been made that the rule in regard to skating offside be changed. It is claimed that too much time is lost under the present rule, which makes it necessary for the referee to blow his whistle every time he sees a man skating offside. The new suggestion would make it possible for the man to become on side by skating behind the man making the pass, without the necessity of the referee blowing the whistle...
...process of ratification the Senate leaders have discovered a valuable bit of legislative phychology. Mark Twain once told of a Missouri steamboat with a six inch cylinder engine and an eight inch cylinder whistle, so when the captain blow the whistle everything else, had to stop. Our Senate is constructed on an amazingly similar plan. But when the leaders shut down on the whistle by setting the time for the vote, the senators at last disposed of the treaty...
...last year when he stopped G. R. McLeod uL. in the first minute of the second round in what was easily the best bout of the evening. The excitement was intense when Daggett took a count of seven in the first round, getting up only to drive home two blows which sent McLeod to the mat in succession, the gong finally saving him. The third round was slow until the knock-out blow which declared Daggett again the champion...
...will probably by discussion of penalty for a team appearing late for the beginning of a game. This was taken up in the New York meeting but it was finally decided that the point was sufficiently covered by the present rules. Another subject will be the question of referee blowing his whistle to declare a touchdown as soon as the ball in the hands of the attacking side goes over the goal line on both running plays and forward passes. The New York gathering agreed that the referee should blow his whistle and declare a touchdown the instant...
...lobby is not by any means confined to national affairs--so powerful have the state lobbies become that the legislators are beginning to doubt whether they have anything whatever to say about running the country. Accordingly the members of the Virginia house of Delegates have decided to strike a blow in their own defense, and--since it is impossible to resist the lobbyists--to avoid them. A bill is now before one of the committees to furnish each and every Delegate with a false beard and whiskers to the end that he may better avoid the sharp scrutiny...