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Twenty thousand people fringed the long-rowed field, speculating as to who would be the winner. Walter Olson of Rio, Ill., who can strip a shuck from the stalk and send one ear over his tailgate with another right behind it, who uses either a steel peg or a hook impartially, was not competing. He won last year and the year before. But Harold Holmes and Orville Welch, two Illinois boys who had won their State's championship, were known to be spry harvesters. Then there was Fred Stanek of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Three years...
...particularly hard, but it flustered Singer. He stepped back to get his bearings, then launched the flurry of punches any fighter turns loose when he has been hurt, to show that he has not been hurt. Canzoneri ducked, swung a right and then a short, lightning-fast left hook that landed on the point of Singer's jaw. The champion went down on. his face and the people who had laid 3 to i knew their money was gone : when a fighter falls on his face he seldom gets up. At the count of seven Singer flopped over...
...Centre Harbor, N. H., Daisy, a cow, drank from a 2-qt. pail, caught her horns on a hook, drowned...
...summary: HARVARD PENNSYLVANIA Faude, g. g., Warren Catinella, r.f.b. r.f.b., Penney, Stuppel Des Roches, l.f.b. l.f.b., Woolever Bland, l.h.b. l.h.b., Bollers Carter,- c.h.b. c.h.b., Logan, Squire Carter, r.h.b. r.h.b., Ragan, Hook Vogel, c.f. c.f., Anderson Schumacher, l.o.f. l.o.f., Kullman Frame, l.i.f. l.i.f., Crockett Carrigan, r.o.f. r.o.f., Sleght Eaton, Broadbent, r.i.f. r.i.f., Brownback...
After a few weeks passed listening to the ridicule of every standard a man of college age has ever had or heard of, the student generally goes one of two ways. He many swallow Mr. Babbitt, hook, line and sinker, surrender any ideas he had of writing poetry himself some day, and become a humanist and nuisance to his friends. Of all mistakes, none is more egregious than the undergraduate humanist...