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...feature Relay race of the evening is the Varsity One Mile Relay with Holy Cross, Harvard and Northeastern all having been timed in under 3 min. 28 seconds. There is also an Invitational One Mile Freshman Relay Race in which the crack team from Holy Cross is the overwhelming favorite and the Crimson is due to come in second. The remaining relay race is a Varsity Two Mile event between Harvard and M.I.T...
...world's best police force when in 1932 what Britain called a crime wave brought London 23 murders, 13,800 burglaries. What shocked the new Commissioner, big-framed, bigger-voiced Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard, was the discovery that the Yard's crack men rose in rank not by ability but by seniority. He soon found out that the Vienna police force was not only the world's best but also the most educated. Every Viennese police lieutenant has a law degree. "Boom" Trenchard began scouting in earnest for the "best brains." He brought in university...
...part of its schedule, from winning the Big Ten Championship. Its team, about the same as last year's, has five scoring players, all from Indiana - a state so basketball-mad that business practically stands still during the finals of the annual tournament of 800 high schools. The crack shot is Norman Cottom, a sandy-haired forward who has scored 63 points in six games and bids strong to finish as high scorer of the Conference. Best player, by a shade, and the steadying influence of the team is his running mate, Ray Eddy. Purdue does not worry much...
...game. Also like Notre Dame, City College has in Nat Holman a remarkable coach. In 15 years Holman's teams at C. C. N. Y. have won 173 games, lost 41. Born and bred on Manhattan's East Side, Nat Holman learned basketball where many another crack Jewish player started, in a settlement-house gymnasium. While studying at C. C. N. Y. he did not play on the college team, but turned professional, signed in 1920 with a team called "The Original Celtics." Holman played with the Celtics for eight years, during which they won an average...
...time of 3 min. 28 2-5 seconds and were not once headed. Moreover the Freshman Mile Relay team smothered a Yale Freshman quartet in most efficient fashion and their time for the distance was 3 min. 36 4-5 seconds. However the Two Mile relay team of crack middle distance runners in the Intercollegiate Varsity race over this distance was nosed out at the finish by a quartet from Maine, though the defeat was in some sense due to the fact that Johnny White and Captain Morse both had run key positions in the Yale race...