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...take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have won the game-except for the mad riding of tall, angular Winston F. C. Guest, who made seven of Yale's eight goals. The final score: Yale 8, Harvard 5. Yale won the championship, chiefly because Mr. Guest had played polo that was fast and sportingly rough enough for international cup matches...
This ancient, able, angular seer of baseball, who shares managerial honors with John J. McGraw of the New York Giants, led his Philadelphia club to its first American League pennant in 1902. He repeated the feat in 1905, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914. At the conclusion of the 1914 campaign, he found that his winning habits had had a deadening, unprofitable effect on his public. Philadelphians were sure that Mack's team would win; were spending their money to witness sports in which the element of chance was more noticeable...
Some have pointed to the tall, spare, angular figure of President Few as the best guarantee against "monkey-bills" in the South. Of ancient and distinguished lineage, he rose to fame as a scholar and teacher of English literature. "Religion and education; not two but one and inseparable" is the motto of Duke University. Last autumn he added a school of religion to his university, but it is no secret that this scholar-gentleman looks forward most eagerly to establishing a great medical school. Meanwhile five sons attach him to youth...
Three hundred newspaper men and women sat in a curving, triple arc of chairs facing the judge's bench, the witness stand, the jury box, of a tiny courtroom in Somerville, N. J. The air was stuffy. An angular court crier (John Bunn by name) intoned in a creaky voice, "Hear ye. . . ." The reporters' pencils moved rapidly, their eyes searched the faces of the witnesses, the defendants, the lawyers. Occasionally a truck rumbled through the street outside. In here, a certain Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her brothers, the Messrs. Henry and "Willie" Stevens, were on trial...
...after the 1871 Chicago fire that John Shedd asked Marshall Field for a job. "I can do anything," he said. He was a tall, angular, big-eared, eager fellow of 22. Later in life he said: "Think well of yourself. Self-respect never injures your standing with your employer. Without it you are likely to fall into timorous habits." And he must have been thinking of the way he asked Marshall Field for work. He was hired as stock boy for $10 a week. He saved half his wages regularly...