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...fashioned people, May Day means flowers, grass, picnics, children, clean frocks. To up-and-doing Socialists and Communists it means speechmaking, parading, bombs, brickbats, conscientious violence. This connotation dates back to May Day, 1886, when some 200,000 U. S. workmen engineered a nationwide strike for an eight-hour...
There are five different ways of lifting weights. No weight can be considered "lifted" until it is as high as a man can reach. The one-or two-arm "snatch" consists of lifting it with a single motion of one or both hands. The one-or two-arm "clean and jerk" consists of lifting it with one or both hands, first to the chest, then jerking to above the head..The two-arm "military press" is complex. This consists in lifting it to the chest, taking a deep breath, counting two, then slowly raising it above the head...
...present is the present system. The ramifications of the various Amateur Athletic Unions have after all accomplished something. The tramp athlete is a character of history; there has been much codification and standardization of rules. This is almost a period of laissez faire, so far as any general clean-up-athletics move goes. In its place exist the intricate individual agreements that hold only within small groups of colleges; this is in line with the increasing apartness of institutions, now in the phase of leagues, and perhaps eventually to be narrowed down everywhere to the meeting of only...
...Harvard University tennis team will meet the Bowdoin College racquet-wielders at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon on the Divinity Courts. The Crimson players have not lost a single one of their seven starts this season and should have no trouble in keeping their slate clean against the invaders from the North...
...from TIME, April 15. "Experts everywhere predict that the Cubs will sweep through the National League." Certainly TIME'S baseball fans will agree that newspapers and experts all over the country (with the exception of Chicago) predict a tight race between the Giants and the Cubs- not a clean sweep for the latter. A list of these experts includes non-partisan baseball men and prominent sports writers. Betting odds as the season opens favor the Giants slightly. . . . W. J. LODGE Westfield...