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...squad of ends running down under punts, practicing quick starting and tackling the dummy. The line men were drilled in breaking through and in passing the ball to one another while running. Grant and Nourse, the centres, practiced passing the ball back for punts, aiming at a chalk bulls-eye on the wall of the Stadium. In this work, Nourse seemed to have the better direction and greater speed...
Technical World-"Chalk Talks...
...Horticultural Hall itself is occupied throughout this week by a charitable fair, the returns were given out in the smaller hall above the main one. Every seat was filled. A large reel of paper was used in announcing the returns and unfortunately the black chalk employed made such slight marks that the figures could hardly be seen by the men at the back of the hall...
...Echeverria and Mr. Bloodgood of the Racquet and Tennis Club, and Mr. Tatham of the N. Y. Fencers Club. The judging is to be after the French method. Each man fences one four minute bout with every man of the opposing teams. There are to be no chalk points nor any stopping after touches. The decision is to be made on touches and good form...
...investigating party first explored the chalk bluffs of the San Diego River, Texas, where they found mammoth tusks and bones together with flints and axes. They had no proof, however, that man and the mammoth were here contemporaneous, because in many places remains of the Indians are found mingled with the traces of an earlier age. In these instances, investigation has shown that the confusion was caused in subsequent years. But discoveries in the Look-out and Nickajack caves near Knoxville, Tenn., furnish indisputable evidence that man lived there at the same time with the animals whose bones were found...