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...batsmen of the National League. In 1924 his average was .424 the highest ever achieved by a modern-day player. Last season, weakened by boils and injuries, he batted .317. He is said to be "worth" $300,000. He quarreled with Owner Breadon because he asked for a three-year contract...
Unsocial Engineers. Not enough social insight nor responsibility, concluded the Society for Promotion of Engineering Education last week, among other charges laid to U. S. engineering students and faculties. The report followed a three-year investigation in the U. S. and Europe, at a cost of $200,000. Recommendations: 1) more study of the humanities and economics; 2) elimination, by stricter entrance examination, of misfits; 3) provision for better teachers...
...Bruins, highly praised early in the season for the smooth efficiency of their play suffered a let-down against Bates last week, while Yale as topping Dartmouth from her three-year throne, and was not conceded a chance against the Blue. But with an irresistible rush the Bears swept the astonished Blue team off its feet, and sent Corn-sweet over with the winning touchdown four minutes after the opening whistle. Not content with the one score, the Providence eleven continued its aggressive tactics, and while unable to tally again, kept the Elis so much...
...deserted the idlers in front of the Turf Club; they shouted a name that shook itself out like a battle-banner in the grey autumnal air: "Crusader." He-Man O'War's bravest son, best three-year old of the year-was in front. At one flank humped a dark witch-rabbity horse named Mars; at the other a little brown three-year old, William Ziegler's Espino. The bookies had Crusader at 4 to 5; Mars, they thought, was out of the running, and any poor fool who had a dollar to put on Espino could...
...Council voted to accept a recommendation by one of its fiscal subcommittees that the three-year administration of Austrian state finance by Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, as League of Nations General Commissioner for Austria, be terminated on June...