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Polar Flyer Richard Evelyn Byrd: "A letter which has followed me over the U. S. since May 15 has reached me. It contained an odd request from one E. R. Davis, advertising man of Tacoma, Wash., for an exclusive contract to erect signs at the North Pole. He offered to pay for this right $1,000 per annum, from the date he constructed his first sign there. I signed the contract instantly, and returned it to Mr. Davis. What manner of signs he may erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs...
Preliminary work is already well advanced on the new baseball cage which is to be located at the southeast corner of Soldiers Field, next to the Locker Building. The contract has been let to the E. W. Pitman Co., of Lawrence, Massachusetts...
With a championship nine from last season intact except for the 1926 leader, Tood, prospects are bright for another successful season under the tutelage of Coach Mitchell who begins today the second year of his three year contract as director of the Crimson's baseball tossers...
...following special article was written by Joe Forecast, who predicted with such success reports of football encounters in the columns of the Crimson last year. At the requests of hundreds of fans, he has consented to resume his old post at a fabulous honorarium, and has signed a contract with the Crimson to begin his duties at once...
...eligibility of the two Geneva athletes who transferred from the University of Pittsburg this year, was questioned recently by the Cornell authorities. According to the terms of the contract Harvard was scheduled to play Geneva under the rules of the visitors and no protest was made by the University officials, Director of Athletics W. J. Bingham '16 wrote to Geneva merely to clear the question and yesterday received the answer in the form of a definite statement to the effect that neither of the two men will participate against the University eleven. Johnson has already left Geneva and has returned...