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...track. In the twenty-nine previous encounters, the first of which came in 1891, Yale teams have won 16, while the remaining 13 have gone to the Crimson. Last year, upsetting all forecasts, a University team by many fighting finishes at the tape, brought to a close a string of four Yale wins, turning in a victory by the close margin of 70 13-15 to 64 2-15. Again this year the odds are greatly in favor of Yale on the basis of comparative results, but on the other hand, the Crimson team from last year's contests gained...
...argument advanced by those who favor Montenegrin union with Yugo-Slavia runs to the effect that " King Nicholas had more than one string to his bow during the war"; it is felt that he did not wholeheartedly espouse the cause of the Allies. Whether or not that question affects the status of Montenegro or Montenegrin liberty today, it is always brought up in that connection...
Among the most interesting of the demonstrations was that in which troop 9 of Boston put 12 men over a wooden wall 15 feet high in 35 seconds. In the fire making contest without matches, E. D. Davenport of Troop 4 won the championship, adjusting the bow and string and whirling the pivot until he obtained a spark to light the flame all in 43 seconds...
...Tiger cubs started off the season with a string of six victories, but on April 28, they struck a snag in the shape of Blair School, finally succumbing by the narrow margin of 5 to 4. Tome, Exeter, and Peddie all overcame the Freshman in the succeeding games, and it was not until last Saturday that the nine was able to come back with an 8 to 1 victory over Penn Charter...
...since the war, he said. It is also an encouraging fact, he pointed out, that the Crimson has scored in seven of the nine victories, 10 runs or more. No Freshman baseball team has been able to overcome Princeton since the war, but this year promises to break this string of defeats, he concluded...