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This year's season included three matches with Norwich, two with Yale (varsity and second string), and a final gallop against Williams, played early this month, which the Crimson visitors lost by a fetlock in the last chukker...
Five minutes into the second chukker, the rains came. A verliable cloudburst, which at one stage made the goalies invisible from the middle of the field, transformed the ground into a quagmire. But lacrosse games don't stop unless either one team is collectively struck by a lightening belt or something equally drastic occurs, so the contest continued despite the downpour...
...hunch was right. Women flocked to buy the handsome packages with the masculine names ("Chukker," "Steeplechase," etc.) for their men-some of whom finally took to getting the stuff for themselves. In the $50,000,000-a-year industry, Courtley has become one of the leaders in class, one of the big six in volume of sales (the other five: Seaforth, Sportsman, Shulton, Yardley, Lenth...
...from the boudoir as possible, give them a hairy-chested appeal. Hollywood's Courtley, Ltd. said gruffly: "A shaving lotion for he-men only." (But Manhattan's Faberge, Inc. was selling a cologne: "Aphrodisia for Men.") Courtley Ltd.'s bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian leather and the great outdoors...
...Green, Sophomore Ray Wolfe has up to this point carried the offensive responsibilities almost single-handed. Currently the No.1 chukker on Blaik's eleven, he also is dangerous as a pass-snarer, having scored against Yale on a 40-yard pass completion. With Wolfe and Dale Bartholomew, another Junior wingback, Blaik thinks he has a substantial passing threat...