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...game at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, ended in a scoreless tie. A heavy field robbed the game of spectacle. Coach John J. McEwan, Army, former all-American centre, paid tribute to his opponents thus: " The Navy team that was on the field against us to-day is the luckiest Navy team that ever played football...
Many had escaped death by the luckiest chance. Fleeing from the heat of the burning city they had thrown themselves into the water. Then hidden oil tanks had exploded nearly, covering the surface of the bay with a film that immediately took fire. Thousands perished in the terrific conflagration that followed, and charred bodies floated up on the shore...
...Booth, '84; Slocum, '83; Souther, '84; Childs, '83; Lawrence, '84; Noyes, '83; Lyon, '84; Newell, '83; D. Carpenter, L. S.; J. Carpenter, '83; Terry, '84; McKee, '84; Stone, '85; Richards, '85; Griggs, '83. Waldon, '81, has come back and will occupy his old position as second base. Wilcox, the luckiest man in the college base-ball arena last year, has left college. The nine also loses the services of Smith, Badger, Hopkins and Platt. Hopkins' place will be hard to fill, but the vacancy at second base will be more than filled by the return of Waldon. The base-ball...
...find that the case is not quite as bad as this. One cannot give his room to any particular man, but the new arrangement provides a way by which he can make over his right to several men, as it were, who will struggle among themselves, and the luckiest will take the room...