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...Princeton, the varsity will face a high-scoring, determined squad, Lineman Lew van Amerongen leads a high-powered attack, and captain Jim Wickenden lends strong support, Jim Hicks, a towering forward, is another accomplished scorer and playmaker...
...that matter, Crimson fans will remember van Amerongen as the performer whose disputed goal tied last spring's Harvard-Princeton lacrosse game at 10-10 with seconds remaining and ended an inspired Crimson bid to upset the Tigers...
...Mourned Colonel Luke Lea of Nashville. Tenn. (who almost kidnapped Kaiser Wilhelm II from a castle at Amerongen, Holland in 1919): "The U. S. is not at war. . . . Therefore ... no American can accept the alluring adventure advanced by President Church...
...greatest diplomatic ordeal was doubtless in persuading the Kaiser to abdicate. Wilhelm II, at the time he fled from Germany, had not officially abdicated, his renunciation of the throne having been announced without Imperial authority by Chancellor Prince Max of Baden. Baron von Maltzan was therefore sent to Amerongen Castle to secure the Kaiser's formal abdication as German Emperor and King of Prussia. For three days the Kaiser refused to see the Baron. Finally, as von Maltzan was about to depart, he encountered the All Highest, clad in the field grey uniform of a marshal, in a corridor...
Eighteen days later he abdicated as King and Emperor at Amerongen, the moat-defended chateau of Count Godard Bentinck, a Knight of the Prussian Order of St. John of which Wilhelm II was the head. Only because of his oath "to aid any Knight of St. John in distress," did Knight Bentinck shelter Knight Hohenzollern...