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Proctor is a former Olympic champion and the outstanding trail designer in this country. He laid out plans for the Taft and Wild Cat trails...
...scandal in the U. S.'s Big Three shipbuilding companies-New York, Newport News and Bethlehem. But no crumb tickled the stout palate of the U. S. public until the Committee found the names of two of Wall Street's biggest bear speculators, of an ex-heavyweight champion, of the right-hand man of a famed promoter all nicely linked together with Edward J. Flynn who, next to Boss Farley, was henchman since times far back...
Precocious and frolicsome, all too many Irish colleens get honest Irishmen in trouble every year by pretending to be above the age of consent. Last week the plight of such duped Irishmen was gravely debated by the Free State Senate. As their champion up rose dignified Senator Maurice Moore, brother of the late great Novelist George Moore, a great hand at describing the frolics of colleens. "I propose," he intoned, "that our girls be obliged by a law which I now propose to the Senate to wear a distinctive dress until they reach the age of consent, fixed...
Undergraduates at the University of Virginia are enthusiastic boxers. The heavyweight champion at Virginia enjoys the social prestige which at comparable institutions goes to the football captain. The boxing team, has won 23 dual meets in a row, four consecutive Southern Conference championships. Its bouts attract crowds of 5,000, many of them female relatives and friends. Last week, the Virginia boxing team journeyed to Annapolis for the big meet of the year against Navy. Six thousand tickets, priced at 75? each and allotted to undergraduates and alumni, were sold on issue. A few were resold for as much...
...comes as a major setback, especially since the two hardest contests of the season come within the next two weeks. Rated as the classiest intercollegiate boxer in this section, he has lost just one collegiate bout in three years of competition, that to Louis Wertheimer of Syracuse, the intercollegiate champion...