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...points, which surpassed the score of any other man, black or white, in the meet. With a pillar of wind at his back, one Frederick Alderman of the Michigan Agricultural School broke a Conference record for the 220-yd. dash. James Cusack of Chicago stepped cannily along behind a pack of runners for almost a mile, but when the distance became precisely a mile, James Cusack was in front. Shimek, a son of Marquette (Milwaukee), with pits under his eyes and his teeth straining out of his face, ran two miles in heat like the glare from a furnace door...
They left their ship at Bombay, the railroad and motor cars in northernmost India at Srinagar. They gathered their pack beasts, guides, food, guns, blankets, maps and nerve, and bored on foot into the mountainous fastnesses of Kashmir. Last week, they telegraphed from Dras, 75 miles beyond Srinagar, that they had scrambled safely through fearsome Zoji Pass, were leaving next morning over heavy snows for Chim-shakarcu, first of nine stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they - Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie-purpose...
...worried. The boy was reckless; he might do himself harm. All day, as the cars circled, he kept his eye on the little cream-colored machine driven by Nephew Pete de Paolo. The whippersnapper was assuredly reckless, for the first 50 miles he led the roaring, crackling, reeking, spitting pack at a canter of 104 mi. an hour, was passed by Racer Cooper, took the lead again after Cooper had turned his $10,000 machine into a smear of debris against a concrete wall in the 124th lap. Would he learn no caution, that...
Regent Zona Gale was instructed to ask the Madison, Wis., telephone operator to connect her with Editor Frank in Manhattan without further delay. A deputation of the Regents was appointed to pack suitcases, entrain and wait on Editor Frank in person...
...Quatrain could catch him. He was running between solid lanes of people; the finish was almost upon him. With a tremendous, unnecessary effort, he lifted Flying Ebony down the last half furlong. A length and a half behind came Captain Hal. Four lengths back, Singlefoot led the struggling, straggling pack. Sande found himself with a gold cup in his hand, a bunch of roses in his arms, on the back of Flying Ebony, smiling into the cameras that make the world's press...