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Sporting prophecy is chiefly valuable because of the contingent " ifs " which are a ready aid to conversation. Each year the scribes and the prophets, the managers and the elevator boy scan the situation with professional care and announce their choice. General consensus this Spring places the preliminary laurels on the high priced, if not otherwise elevated, brows of the New York teams of both leagues. They won last year and each team has been strengthened by the acquisition of expensive juvenile talent...
...stroke of the pen create a uniform code of laws for this country, but they hope, without legislation, to draw up a sort of handbook of legal procedure, to which all lawyers and judges may turn as authority. If they succeed, their code will be, not law, but a consensus of the best legal opinions upon which all jurists may rely. Law in this country is badly in need of the service...
...star Eli sprinter. is logical choice for first in the broad-jump, with Murphy sure to run him a close second. Both teams are weak in the high jump, but the result will be close. between Annan of Yale, and Ellovich and Greeley of the Crimson yearlings. The general consensus of opinion gives the edge to Greeley, with Annan and Ellovich placing second and third...
...complete knowledge of racing. As a rule, he starts slowly, but comes through at the finish with a rush, as he ably demonstrated by overcoming a lead and winning the event from Poole of Technology last Saturday. While these two men are battling for first place, and the consensus of expert opinion is that Chase will win, Wansker and J. S. Clark will contest with Koenig and Harris of Yale for third place, although any one of them can be called a potential winner...
...pole-vault and shot-put are both more promising from the Crimson point of view than the jumps. Coach Farrell hopes to have Davis, his premier vaulter, in good condition and if this is the case the University should clinch five points. The consensus of opinion would give second place to Sheldon of M. I. T., but Gratwick has shown great improvement this year, winning the event in the triangular meet with a vault of 11 feet 6 inches. Reidy, moreover, has cleared 11 feet and may possibly give Sheldon or Gratwick a hard struggle. In the shot...