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...Brandenburg, University of Wisconsin. Souvenir of the longest baseball throw ever made any collegian. Distance 384' 1". Date 1884. With the regard of his old friend and former member of the faculty...
...Michigan City, Strangler Lewis sprang upon Wayne ("Big") Munn (TIME, Jan. 19), called the "Collegian" because he refutes every sneer at his excessive stupidity with the retort that he is a college graduate Neither could see very well. The Strangler's little red eyes had been inflamed by getting resin in them. Munn had a patch over his left eye which had been butted. After losing the first fall, Lewis applied 20 headlocks, hoisted the collegian over his shoulder, threw him over the canvas as a chambermaid throws a sheet over a bed. He took the third fall after...
...Holy Cross nine a 7 to 6 win, he defeated Princeton 4 to 1, and helped to pile up a 14 to 3 score against the Crimson. He will join the Detroit major league team next year with what is probably the greatest record ever taken by a collegian into professional ranks...
...have us believe. But mere trickery and deception is not particularly appealing, nor even the subtle performance of back-patting and hand-shaking. A little more high comedy and a little less low farce would provide a program more attractive to the often slightly aesthetic, and occasionally almost intellectual collegian...
...ball and heaved it 47 feet 7½ inches, thereby setting a national championship mark for the A. A. U. Last week Paddy, white-haired and portly, tried again in the A. A. U. meet in Manhattan. The best he could get was a third place. But a young collegian, a mere junior at Princeton, Ralph Hills, stepped forward and heaved the leaden ball 47 feet 11½ inches, setting a new National A. A. U. mark. Three feet and half an inch still remains to the world's mark. But Hills is young. He may yet grow...