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...interesting stories of figure skating this year. When, three days before the opening of the championship, Erie Reiter, America's second ranking skater and almost Robin Lee's equal, was discovered to be the only American entrant who might come anywhere near "pushing" Canada's Montgomery ("Bud") Wilson, Roger F. Turner, 36-year-old Boston lawyer, was asked to compete. Out of active competition for over two years . . . Turner was given two hours to brush up on his "school figures" and the following day ended up in second place, a good 30 points over third-placer Erie...
...persuaded the judge to let him give the boy another chance as a member of the Coe household. Last week Criminologist Coe returned home one day to find his protege gone with his $2,000 speedboat, two pistols, $110 cash. "I played fair with you, didn't I, Bud?" sighed he, facing the boy in court again. "How fair have you been to me? When you think that over and learn the answer you'll have learned much about life. That's all now. I'm through." On his 100th birthday anniversary the City of Buffalo...
...Hearst technique of developing or buying top-flight writing talent was clearly reflected in the Examiner's roster of one-time contributors, including: Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Mark Twain, Gertrude Atherton, Richard Harding Davis, Kathleen Norris, Charles Michelson. Developed on the Examiner were Cartoonists "Tad" Dorgan, "Bud" Fisher, Homer Davenport. The Examiner first published Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe" and Staffwriter "Phinney" Thayer's "Casey at the Bat." Both were reprinted in the Examiners "Golden Jubilee Edition...
...pairs up with two other dangerous high scorers on the Yale team, Captain Bud Miles, who heads the list in total points, and Bod Beckwith, one of the best all-round players in the League...
...Yale team they face are two Dominicks, Pete and Bud, and both of them have played with Winmill and von Stade on Long island for the past six summers, sometimes as opponents, sometimes as teammates. And then Captain Edward Strobchin, coach of Yale, is a close friend of the Crimson's coach Captain Palmer, so the meeting between the two teams will be something more than just another athletic contest...