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Year after year Harvard loses decisive points in athletic contests because--for academic reasons--she is not fully represented in the field. Coaching, training-tables, intensive practice, often prove futile because her best material is "on pro." No sport this winter,--from swimming to track, has been free from this evil...
...Carpenter; Standish: W. H. Harkness and E. A. Straw. Squash Tennis: J. M. Hopkins of Smith, R. M. Klein of Gore, and S. W. White Jr. of Standish. Each team will have two matches to play and the percentage of victories will decide the championship in each sport...
Seven-man hockey will be the rule, according to the stipulations of the CRIMSON, neither team being permitted to employ more than that number simultaneously. A single puck will be used, and all proprieties of the sport sedulously observed...
...recent defeat within twenty-four hours of the University fencing, basket-ball, wrestling, gym, swimming, rifle and relay teams again brings up the question of the best means of bettering Harvard's minor sport teams. Men who are well acquainted with conditions here agree that the recognition, in some form, of a minor sports council would be of immediate aid to the present situation. With the proposed constitution referred back to the Student Council by the Athletic Committee "for further consideration and report," the fate of the minor sports organization depends largely on the attitude of the council...
...attempts to attack the integrity of Judge Landis' motives in becoming the supreme arbiter of professional baseball have brought up some very important problems of policy. That Landis, an enthusiastic "fan", is sincere in his desire to make organized baseball a clean sport, few will deny: but there is also little doubt that the large salary paid him by the major leagues was a great inducement at the time that he decided to accept the position. Such an increase of a Federal judge's salary, small enough in these days when the necessary expenses involved for the holder of such...