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...Longest run of the week-10-5 yd.-was Herb McAnly's, helping Florida swamp Sewanee, 19 to 0. Biggest score of the week-105 to 0-was by Murray (Ky.) Teachers College, scoreless in its first two games, against the University of Louisville...
...corner of the plate. Ruth swung at it. There was a crack. Centerfielder Johnny Moore started to run; then he stood still and watched the ball, a dwindling white spot against the blue sky, clear the ware fence and drop 436 ft. from the plate, one of the longest homeruns on record. Babe Ruth shambled slowly around the bases, shaking his fat shoulders and making remarks of mockery to each infielder as he passed. In the uproar, no one was paying much attention to what happened next. Lou Gehrig came to bat and hit the first pitch to the right...
...professional baseball before he went to college. While the matter was being investigated, Tulane, without Felts, drubbed the Texas Aggies. 26 to 14. Pop Warner's new Stanford team used a bewildering collection of reverses, double-reverses, spinners, laterals and forwards to muddle Oregon State in one of the longest games on Pacific Coast Conference record. 27 to o. It was too early to guess what Princeton's new coach, Herbert Orrin Crisler, can do with the remnants of the team whose record last season was the sorriest in Princeton history, but his start?22 to 0 against slow...
...America for 1932-33, just published, Lawyer Samuel Untermyer regains the distinction of having the longest biography in the book, 102 lines. He was outranked in 1930-31 by the late Dr. William Eleazar Barton (108 lines), and by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler (105 lines). Dr. Butler has edited his paragraph to 94 lines...
...avenge the beating Vines gave him at Roland Garros stadium, had first-round byes. . . . Bunny Austin, England's No. i player, wearing a floppy white duck hat and a flaring pair of white flannel shorts, won his first match easily. Edward Burns Jr. of Brooklyn won the longest championship set of the day-20-18- against E. D. Yeomans of last year's crack North Carolina team. . . . Richard Norris Williams II, national champion in 1914 and 1916, whose tennis is still beautiful to behold, had a good day against young Marco Hecht...