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LIGHT-WEIGHT WRESTLING.S. Paine, '90 and A. E. Sterne, '87, were the only entries for this event. Both are new men, Sterne evidently the stronger but Paine quicker and more scientific. Sterne immediately got a neck hold and threw Paine, who formed a bridge. While Sterne was trying to break down his bridge Paine won much applause by getting up in some inexplicable way. He secured a neck grip and won the first fall in three and a half minutes. When the contestants again entered the ring Sterne lifted Paine off the ground and tried to land...
...legs. At the word of the anchor, all three rope men "go down" for a hold, while the anchor, coming rapidly forward, makes a new knot; and all four go back with a heave. The knot is either one or two wraps, though the single wrap is much quicker to use. The double wrap is used when one team desires to hold what it has got, and does wish the knot to slip. The knot is made with the right hand and held in place by the left; if made too far from the body it is of no advantage...
...second half of the year, restless and unrefreshed, half cocked to use a military expression, in strength and vigor. Go home and have a b-l l-y good time. Forget college for a week and write your theses after you get back. You'll do it better and quicker then, and finally, as the professor in a philosophy course, in which the CRIMSON was, last year, advised, "go home and court the ladies as much as possible or you will forget how. You need their refining influence...
...faults of most of the men who have played in the last three or four games are given below. Harding is slow in getting through the rush line, and if he would start quicker and slow up at the finish, he would do better. He ought to pay more attention to his game and not bother with the rusher opposite him quite so much. He tackles hard and low, and keeps his eyes open. On the whole he is about as good as any man in the rush line. Butler is slow in getting through. He runs hard and follows...
...Slumps worse than any man in the boat at both ends of the stroke. Fails to sit up to it and to get on to his stretcher. Doesn't row his oar way through. Should start forward quicker...