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Last week, one Signor Barolo of the Italian Alpine Club ascended Mt. Etna and then made, singlehanded, the dangerous descent into the crater. Notable as this feat was, it did not compare, in the endurance of hardships, great hazards and magnificent feats, with the circumstances which must attend an attempt on Everest. Yet when Signor Barolo returned he gave out these remarks to the press: "I went carefully and slowly, testing the ground with my stick at each step and I managed, at last, to get down the steep sides of the crater. My progress was also hampered by evil...
...Seckel led 4 up. Goldy-haired Johnston then squinted more keenly at the holes, won five in a row with deadly accuracy. Dormy-down, Seckel planned his 45-foot putt in the 36th hole for a birdie 3. Scornful of worm casts and slippery undulations, Johnston quashed that feat with a 35-footer to the back of the cup. For him the mirage had materialized...
...physicians, with their assistants, were in action. The patient was so weak that ether could not be administered; a local anesthetic dulled the pain but not the mind of Troutman, who, throughout the ordeal, exchanged quips and jokes with the surgeons. Once, he laughed. Beyond all expectation, this feat of surgery was successful. Again the doctors of the University Hospital have arrested the attention of the press; again they have saved the life of a man in extremity...
...cats (Hagen, Sarazen, Smith, Barnes) were away, the mice (Brady, Macfarlane, Farrell, Forrester, Diegel, 150 others) played -for the Metropolitan Golf Championship, at Roslyn, L. I. The mice finished in the order named, Mike J. Brady nibbling a 292 out of the Engineers' Club course-no mean feat, even for a cat. His last three nibbles were...
...Wisconsin, a green, untried crew, whose boat had not come out on the Hudson since 1914. It was a great victory for the West and a great defeat for the East, which could hardly have been more surprised at seeing green snow than it was at Wisconsin's feat...