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...yard distances, and taking both first and second in the half-mile and mile runs. Although the Tiger yearlings allowed the University first year men to again a large lead at the beginning of the meet, they continually pressed the Crimson athletes, and their final bid for victory fell short by only a small margin...
...three other records fell to Crimson track men, Captain Burke lowering the dual meet time in the mile, and Greenidge and Carpenter, in the javelin and discus events, respectively, bettering both dual meet and Harvard College records. Burke's time of 4 minutes 24 seconds was 2 1-5 seconds better than the mark made by McCulloch of Princeton in 1920. Greenidge, with a javelin throw of 180 feet 6 inches, bettered his own dual meet and college record by 13 feet 8 inches, while Carpenter, whose distance in the discus was 130 feet 9 inches added 2 feet...
From another source comes a despatch stating that General Feng Yu-Hsiang, known as the "Christian General," is about to exterminate the bandits with the legendary " one fell swoop." In the face of official reports from Peking there is probably not a word of truth in this contention. The Washington Post, in an editorial, humorously sums up the character of the Christian hymn-singing army: " An American officer reported that he had heard Chinese soldiers on the march singing to the tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers, but the words meant something different. They sang the Doxology at meals...
...young French lady named Elodie whose husband had left her. Andrew liked Elodie (though, of course, their relationship was just one of those hygienic affairs), but she hated fresh air and left her lingerie around the flat too much, so he went to war, became a brigadier general and fell in love with Lady Auriel Dayne. Of course, that makes a lot of trouble. The piece is well-cast and furnishes an innocuous evening's entertainment. Adapted from a novel, of W. J. Locke, it suffers the fate of most such adaptations. Alan Dale: "Involved and hopelessly tedious play." Kenneth...
...Memphis, Tenn., Gold V. Sanders, editor of the Memphis Press, fell into contempt of court and was fined $300 and costs by Federal Judge J. Will Ross...