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...Sport writers heralded a " dramatic" finale, but Chicagoan and Atlantan were alike erratic when the day came. They went in to lunch with Miss Stirling...
With the acreage of sporting news in the daily paper steadily increasing, the fate of a college football team seems to rest not so much in the hands of the college or of the team itself as upon the point of the sporting editor's pen. The name of any of the larger universities attached to an item of news greatly enhances its market value, and sport writers must live. Hence the very health of a football player becomes a public commodity...
...chimera of infallibility has indelibly been sketched in printer's ink about the name of any one of the Big Three. The men are dubbed gridiron heroes, many as early as their preparatory school days, and immediately they cease to be mortal. Once deified in this way by sport writers, the chronicle of their doings becomes of far greater value...
...curse upon Yale-Harvard athletic engagements for the coming season has suddenly and fortunately been averted. With no advance notice those in authority have lifted the ban on Yale's sophomore athletes. This is a piece of welcome news, for nothing is so unfortunate for amateur sport as to have continual worry over present or future ineligibility. Luckily for New Haven the ghost "it might have been" has been vanquished...
Taking advantage of the comparatively warm weather yesterday afternoon the University baseball squad played a six inning practice game These games, however, are numbered. With the ever present threat of the autumnal breezes that sport about Soldiers Field Coach Slattery expects that practice will have to be discontinued about the middle of next week...