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...retorted: "There are ladies here, but I would be glad to argue with you-or have a discussion with you-or have a fight with you." He is one of the few fighters of San Juan Hill still on the active list. At that battle, wounded in the leg, he was treated by his brigade commander, who was also a doctor. They became fast friends. General McCoy married his niece, was his aide-de-camp in Cuba and the Philippines. The man was General Leonard Wood. Famed as a troubleshooter, General McCoy was sent to supervise the Nicaraguan presidential election...
Later she decided to default that match as well. She explained: "In the third set of my singles match I felt as if I were going to faint because of pain in my back and hip and a complete numbness of my right leg. The match was long and by defaulting I do not wish to detract from the excellence of Miss Jacobs' play. I feel that I have spoiled the finish of the national championship and I wish I had followed the advice of my doctor and returned to California...
...game the East was giving back double measure. This time it was the Eastern player who shouldered his opponent out of the way, swung his mallet heedlessly in races for the ball. Hitchcock took the game's first bad tumble, his pony rolling over him, pinning his right leg, giving him a slight brain concussion. Play was stopped for 20 minutes, but Hitchcock insisted on going back. Shaken and aching, he rode automatically with an old campaigner's alert abandon, helped account for all three of the East's first chukker goals. Then red-helmeted Hopping slammed...
...Buffalo, playing with his friends, Albert Sypniewski, 9, put his foot in front of a moving train, hobbled three blocks to his home on the mangled leg. which had to be amputated below the knee. Said he: "They dared...
...dangled on the chandeliers as trophies of former triumphs and the tales circulated about them would take the most broad-minded of schoolmarms twitch uneasily. But it is easy to say that one of these Freshman has profited by their example in ten easy lessons. For lately a broken leg cast was found luxuriously occupying an entire bureau draw in Hollis. Some Harvard butterfly had indeed shed its cocoon...