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...handy fashion, and West of Stanford and Haas, the Georgetown captain, progressed to the finals with second honors. The high obstacle event should bring about some of the closest competition of the meet this afternoon, and on a fast track Dye is due to threaten the mark set by Earl Thompson six years ago. The Crimson entries, Ballantyne and Clarke, were completely shut out in the trials...
...following article on the high hurdles was written by H. L. Hillman, track coach at Dartmouth. Hillman, who trained Earl Thomson, the intercollegiate record holder, calls attention to the remarkable speed shown by Thomson in his record breaking performance, a performance which he thinks will not be equalled for several years...
...nearly two score American colleges who will start competition in the fiftieth annual I. C. A. A. A. A. track and field championships on Friday all realize the merit of the record which half a century of competition has produced for the 120 yard high hurdles. Back in 1920 Earl J. Thomson of Dartmouth flew over the high barriers in 14 2-5 seconds and that mark, made at Philadelphia, will be very hard to lower. There is a possibility that it will be equalled but I doubt if it will be lowered for many years and I also believe...
...slip through his fingers at the battle of Jutland (1916). Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa became Admiral of the Fleet in 1919. In 1920 he was sent as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief to New Zealand, returning in 1924, to be created, in 1925 Viscount Brocas of Southampton and Earl Jellicoe...
BLACK SUNLIGHT-Earl Rossman -Oxford University Press ($1.75). With so many bold men preparing these spring days to explore by air over the icy wastes of the Polar Sea, this journalistic account of life on the upper fringes of Alaska makes a well-timed appearance. As Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson agrees in the preface, it is a good kind of introduction to "the friendly Arctic" for folk who have never been there, since Author Rossman was a tenderfoot when he took his cinema cameras to the Eskimo village of Wainwright* and settled down for the hard winter...