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...direct rays of a beating sun, and when the rains of November were thrumming a monotonous tattoo on the roof of the baseball cage, he has practised for but one thing: that the Varsity might be great. In return he asks nothing; though, when honor's at the stake, like the heroine of almost any novel, he has been ready always to "go the whole...
...been said of the CRIMSON team that "No matter how charged with punishments the scroll, no matter even how straight the gait, let the team only beat the pants off Princeton and the season is successful." There is more than honor and a deep sea diving championship at stake here; the CRIMSON team has not lost a game to a college aggregation this season...
...famed Eugene O'Neill, received its first performance last week in Pasadena, Calif. Briefly, the play sets forth the adventures of Lazarus who was raised from the dead, taken to Rome, and there, after he has failed to provide Emperor Tiberius with renewed youth, burned at the stake. Lazarus is convinced that death is a misconception; men, he suggests, should forget sorrow and they should laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. The actors in the play give a large part of their time to an illustration of this precept; at one point, in the Pasadena performance, laughter, concerted...
...appeared on the face of Charles C. Davis of Columbus, Ohio, and was not noticed because it also appeared on the face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake driven into the ground 40 feet from where he stood. Duryee was not quite so calm; the crowd seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead of nearly 20 points which he held to the end of the game, beating Duryee...
...yards of Florida hotels. They are the ones who like the game best, but the young men are the champions. The headquarters of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association is in Akron, Ohio. A horseshoe pitcher uses two horseshoes, each weighing 2½ Ibs. He tosses them at an iron stake 40 ft. away, protruding 8 in. above a bed of potters clay. Then his opponent does likewise. The shoe that lands nearest the stake scores 1 point; a ringer 3 points; a double ringer 6 points. The first player to score 50 points wins the game. In championship matches, calipers...