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Most exciting event of the afternoon was the breast-stroke in which Roger Willcox prevailed by the narrow margin of one foot. Bill Cann scored a win in the dive with Pete Waring just failing to take a second...
...second year in a row, the Dartmouth Indian cagers proved themselves too tough for the rest of the League teams during the first part of the campaign and piled up a safe margin over their closest rivals. This year they went nine games before being tripped by the Big Red, and last night they also bowed to the Columbia Lions, leaving the Mooneyites only one game behind the Green, but without a mathematical chance of overtaking them...
...tally the first basket of the evening, and this seemed to serve only as a single to start the Red and Blue attack rolling. They began to hit on all cylinders with "push 'em up" Tony Mischo and Harlan Gustafson leading the way to a 23 to 12 halftime margin...
...pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time and had won it by the largest margin ever-five lengths. Co-favorites Porter's Mite and Impound had fought it out indeed, but for third place, one length behind Xalapa Clown...
...spite of an eleventh-hour reassurance by Governor Saltonstall that "the bill would not give me the slightest bit of embarrassment" the forces of opposition failed to overcome a three-vote margin which denied the repealer a third hearing in the lower chamber last week...