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...Indian sheep stealers was enough to send the whole tribe of 50 or 60 Indians on the warpath. They cut the telephone and telegraph wires to the town of Blanding and did some sniping without wounding any one. When a posse set out after them, they hid in the " Dark Tank " country. Two young Indians are reported killed, one of them known as Cowberry Charlie's boy. A reward of $100 is offered for the capture, dead or alive, of Chief Old Posey, head of the Piutes...
Oxford and America combined to make an English holiday when the Dark Blue crew, with two Americans in the boat, defeated Cambridge in the Thames classic, and the Oxford track team, also with two Americans, took the annual track meet 7 events to 4. W. P. Mellen, of New York-age 20, weight 155-stroke of the Oxford crew, was the hero of the four-mile drama on the Thames. Mellen sat in his first shell at Middlesex School and received his earliest training under Dr. R. Heber Howe, recently resigned as director of rowing at Harvard...
...Significance. It is a dark world that Mr. Train sees. He is not content with regarding the age as one of irreverence in the very young or stagnation in the very old. He grants freely that the young are irreverent and the old are stagnant. But he goes further. He sees this as an age of decadance, of sham, of sensuality, of materialism...
Battling Siki, dark blot on the Carpentier 'scutcheon, lost the light heavyweight championship of the world in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day to Mike McTigue, third-rate American fighter. In the 17th round of the scheduled 20, the Senegalese faltered about the ring, groggy before McTigue's punches, finally falling into a clinch to hug himself safe from a knockout. The American received the decision on points...
EBONY AND IVORY ? Llewellyn Powys ? American Library Service ($2.00). The dark continent is swept with a revealing glare of realism. The intensity of the picture is almost unbearable. Mr. Powys sees Africa as a place of creeping death, of relentless cruelty...