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Last week, Nurmi ran in Brooklyn, N. Y., was beaten, fixed a new world's record. The race was a 2,000-yard handicap, the occasion the annual indoor games of the Brooklyn College Club. When the pistol punched the air and Nurmi felt his lever-like legs beginning their incomparable trit-trot, he saw up the track three runners thrusting forward, all ahead of him, due to the one hundred yard handicaps. Through the scattered field he pumped, lap and lap; now there were only two, now only one runner ahead of him. That one was Gunnar Nilson...
...Brooklyn, one William Wakoz, longshoreman, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, and roaring drunk, rolled down a street insulting men, women, children. There approached a priest who said : "Be a little more gentle, my good man." Up went the longshoreman's fist. "Go to Hell,'' cried he. The next moment, Bully Wakoz was on his back in the street with the priest astride him. The Bully was then arrested, fined...
...Langdell Marshall Club last night defeated the Scott Club in the finals of the Ames competition. Leon Edward Hickman 3L, of Sioux City, Iowa, and Curtis Chandler Williams Jr. 3L, of Columbus, Ohio, represented the winning club and acted as counsel for the defendants, while William Gresser 3L, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Malbourne Bergerman of Pueblo, Colorado, who represented the Scott club, were counsel for the plaintiff...
Died. Mrs. Ray Frank, mother of Leo Frank, who (in 1915) was lynched by a Georgia mob; in Brooklyn...
...Professor, a man of 68, possessed of an A. B. from Yale in 1879 and a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins seven years later, a classmate of Wood- row Wilson, first a History teacher, then President of Adelphi College, Brooklyn, then pacifist, then supporter of Woodrow Wilson and in his advancing age a leading member of such organizations as the World Court League, the League of Nations Union, the New York Peace Society, was lifted momentarily from his comparative obscurity into the national limelight. Endowed with a small fortune, sought out by greedy stock-salesmen, he lived in momentary fame...