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...seventh, however, the brush at the finish proved unprofitable for the University. Watters had been up with the best of them during the opening chapters, but had found his first race of the season not so easy after the half-way mark. He had been having it nip and tuck with Captain Holt, but it was only over the final distance that the M. I. T. leader, uncovering a perfectly timed sprint, swept past with a second's lead to finish...
Died. Somerville Pinkney Tuck, 74, of Annapolis, Md. Nominated by President Cleveland and appointed by the Khedive of Egypt, he served for many years as Judge of the International Court of First Instance at Mansourah and later became Judge of the International Court of Appeals at Alexandria...
...University sextet will face the strongest hockey team that Dartmouth has ever had when it meets the Green at 8.15 o'clock this evening at the Arena. With ten lettermen available at the beginning of the season Coach Tuck has developed a combination which has won 12 out of 13 games, having been defeated only by the Army sextet 1-0. The squad had some valuable early season experience on its Christmas vacation trips to Lake Placid and Buffalo, winning five games. After an easy 6-2 victory over Hamilton, the Dartmouth skaters were forced to the limit to gain...
...wanderlust" gets into everyone's blood to a greater or lesser degree and no Maeterlinck Bluebird idea of happiness or Carlyle gospel of work are of much avail to keep it in check. Once a man gets the desire to tuck his "trouser-ends into his boots" and go off to the far corners of the earth, he will go and continue to go until he develops a definite purpose to hold him back...
...games Dixon steadied down and, although. Wakefield showed a fine style of play, Dixon was able to hold him in check. The pace was too fast to be long maintained, however, and Dixon had to concede Wakefield the fourth game, making the score-even. The fifth was-nip and tuck up to 9-8 with Wakefield in the lead, but here he unloosed several clever shots which won him the game and match...