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...thoroughbreds walk up to the starting line,* watched Seabiscuit, with Georgie Woolf up, zoom in front in the first few strides. At the first quarter Seabiscuit was two full lengths ahead. Then a roar swept over the ancient stands: pretty little War Admiral, the favorite, was closing the gap-one length, two lengths. At the half-mile post they were neck & neck; at the three-quarter post they looked like one horse against the autumn background...
...Hitler, who appropriates the democratic idea of self-determination to strengthen a totalitarian regime, really wanted peace he would not insist that so complex a problem as the transfer of Sudetenland be settled in so short a time. He would readily permit calm negotiations to bridge the gap between his "final" memorandum and Benes' "promise...
Jesse Cobb Mills, Bulls Gap, Tennessee--Whitesburg High School, Whitesburg, Tennessee...
...gap exists also in the guard ranks, with the graduation of Allen, Nee and Klein. Question-marks are Chief Boston, out of spring practice due to illness and an appendix operation, center Tim Russell, injured practically all of last season, and Torby MacDonald, sensational wingback, who took the place of the injured Bob Stuart last year, but who has been harassed by leg-trouble since...
With the appointment of Ohio State's Stahl to fill the baseball vacancy left by the resignation of Fred Mitchell, speculation continues as to who will take over the one remaining mentor gap, that in hockey. Coach Joseph Stubbs '20, leader of the puckmen for eleven years, resigned last season...