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...could go to a football game and watch twenty-two men batter each other into insensibility, and have done with it, I should be the most ardent fan in the world...
...lost to us. We turn towards the future as relieved as the player who gets a new lease of life after the loaded bases have been emptied by a timely home-run into the right-field bleachers after a long period of suspense. Now we face a new batter and can stand afresh. We have a fine opportunity in the rally tonight to warm up our voices in preparation for a thorough workout in the Bowl tomorrow. Yale Daily News...
...Mills whom Republicans expect to batter down the "Smiling Al" legend. At the convention Mr. Mills aimed his key-note speech at the extravagance of the Smith regime. Said he: "The Governor is a great politician and, like all artists supreme in their lines, he comes high. I venture to say, in fact, that if he is to preside over our destinies for another two years, the people of this State will come to realize that 'the Sidewalks of New York' is for them the most expensive tune ever written...
Hornsby, as everyone knows, was champion batter of the National League for 1920-21-22-23-24-25. Rousch (Cincinnati) onetime leader of the National League is now batting a mild .324. Ty Cobb (Detroit), Tris Speaker (Cleveland) and George Sisler (St. Louis) are three onetime American League champions of whom much is always expected. Sisler and Speaker are having bad years (.317 and .291 respectively) and twelve-time Champion Cobb (with .329) is doing none too well...
Knowlton, recently cut from the University squad, has replaced Field as the team's clean-up batter and has replaced Flood at second base. Cozzens, pitcher and utility man on the Freshman team of a year ago, has replaced Morris in center field, and Nash will toe the rubber in place of Moseley. Except for these shifts the team will face St. Anselm in the same order as it faced Exeter...