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Fortnight ago a bandy-legged Billiken with a massive gargoyle head, a nose like a Bartlett pear, ham hands and fiddle-case feet, popped out of Central Park woods in Manhattan and loped off around the reservoir in a tiger-cat trot. Manhattanites who brisk around the reservoir in wintry weather are generally game guys, but one gander at this interloper was enough to send some skedaddling...
...Artist Reveron first tests the tightness of his canvas by "getting the feel of the tension," next tightens the belt of his burlap shorts, the straps of his sandals and his arm muscles to the same degree. When all the tensions are equal, he attacks the canvas like a tiger. After four hours' work, he is so exhausted that he must go down to the beach, swim out and gulp sea water...
...most irritating to Capitol Hill critics was its Lady-or-the-Tiger ending. For, while Author Roosevelt told his exciting story well and smoothly, he left the solution of the plot to Congress-and every one of the three possible solutions is politically inexpedient...
Four Elis, three Indians, three Quakers, and one Tiger were the choices of the Crimson varsity lettermen when they cast their votes for an All-Opponents football team out of the many outstanding men they met on the field this fall...
...Another Tiger, capable Jim Worth, and Dartmouth's Dan Dacey, receive top ranking in a season which produced few good guards. Worth, Dacey, Dunbar of Cornell, and Burnam of Yale were the best of a poor lot. Worth's experience and Dacey's speed put them on the first eleven...