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Running on boards is different from running out of doors. Learning how to adjust his stride to the greater spring the track gives on indoor boards does npt completely solve the problem of the runner. He must master the banked turns. No matter how long or limber are his legs on the straightaway, unless he acquires a correct balance around turns, leaning neither too much nor too little, unless he shortens his stride with the inside leg, the runner should stay out in the open. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland", bone specialist, U. S. 1,000-yd. champion...
...Crimson players were jumped at the start by an eager Husky team, who rolled up a two-point lead before the University got into its stride. Throughout the first half the game was a tight battle between the two teams, but the period ended with a score of 15 to 14 in favor of the home team...
...fragile-appearing as befits an opera heroine who must die of grief, graceful, chicly costumed. Her first singing was uneven but after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs and arpeggios done with the greatest ease, trills and staccati true to pitch (coloraturas are inclined to sing off-key), a high E flat clearly sung...
...dealer, was up on Alligator for Mrs. Stevenson. He had been letting his rivals eliminate and trample each other. Alligator, slow but steady, surefooted, was second coming into the last turn. Wav.erly Star was two lengths in front. Waverly Star rose for a jump, fell coming down. In a stride Alligator was at the jump, rose, fell the same way. For a second both horses were squirming, both jockeys...
Michigan comes here at the top of its stride, flushed with victory, at full strength and confident of administering a clean-cut setback to the Crimson. The advantage of two weeks rest has enabled many players, who were injured in the Conference games, to fully recuperate for this game for which Michigan has been pointing all season...