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...late dispatch from Wellesley indicated that the girls had undergone a brief warm-up session with the Princeton Country Day School, and that everything seemed in good shape for the scrum in Briggs' Cage on Saturday. The H.A.A. announced that the grapplers would dispense with the usual formalities and begin the three-hour halves promptly at eight. It was warned that the entertainment tax would be higher than usual...
...Minneapolis Coach Bernie Bierman gave his Golden Gophers a warm-up against North Dakota State, used 55 players including five quarterbacks to finish 69-to-7. Halfback Andy Uram played only a few minutes in the third quarter, but long enough for four streaking runs, two of which resulted in touchdowns...
...Price Headley's Menow; the Champagne Stakes, last warm-up race for two-year-olds before the Belmont Futurity; at Belmont Park, N. Y. Mrs. Ethel Mars' Sky Larking, even-money favorite and generally rated the most promising two-year-old of the season, stumbled while leading the field, broke a leg and was destroyed...
...fifth month of an ordinary session would find Congress, well past the warm-up stage, in a healthy sweat of legislative action. Last week, beginning its fifth month, the Senate met on Monday, adjourned until Thursday, met briefly then and quit for the week. Outside of giving final approval to the Treasury-Post Office Appropriations Bill and providing $5,000,000 for Federal participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, its most newsworthy activity was listening to a speech by Idaho's Borah against fascism...
When the picture opened last week, Governor Frank Finley Merriam of California proclaimed Gold Week, and Sacramento held a warm-up for its 1939 Hometown Jubilee. There was a Governor's "Sutter's Gold Ball." Carl Laemmle and entourage arrived in five private cars. Local merchants displayed themselves in 1849 costumes and sideburns...