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...feature bout of the meet was in the 175-pound class between F. L. Meserve '31, and J. C. Rudnich of M. I. T. Meserve threw Rundnich after two minutes and 50 seconds of the second overtime period...
...days later, at the hour of 4 a. m., somebody threw half a brick and a salt shaker through the window of Mrs. Maude Wilson's coffee shop...
Finlayson, a member of the Freshman football team, threw the 35 pound weight a distance of 41 feet, 4 inches including a handicap of 20 inches. Second place was won by H. L. Movius '30 with a throw of 39 feet, 4 inches including a 24 inch handicap, while A. H. Crimmens '32 placed third with a heave of 39 feet including a 4 foot handicap...
...train between New Orleans and Chicago. On the midnight run of March 18, 1900, with Mardi Gras guests abroad. Casey Jones saw a crash coming with the rear-end of a freight train near Vaughns, Mississippi. He did all he could to prevent it, pulled on the air-brakes, threw his engine into reverse. Then he yelled to the fireman: "jump if you want to save your neck." But Casey Jones, no jumper, stayed with his locomotive and died instantly in the crash...
...held Sergey McTavish by the collar of his astrakhan tunic and the seat of his breeches, kicking and wriggling like a retriever pup. Then he swung the boy up level with his shoulder and threw him sprawling on a snowdrift...