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While all the publicity world bates its breath, a Diamond Queen and a Girl Lindbergh count one for the money, two for the show preparatory to passenger rides across the seas. Air rivalry, a duel of the clouds, is the motif seized upon by the fun--loving tabloids...
...with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because there it can watch mind meet mind and see the intellectual sparksfly. But any contest, where the contestants are far apart, leaves it cold. It takes such an affair about as seriously as it would take a duel with swords at fifty paces or with revolvers at two miles. There has been publicity attached to the meet this year because thing is new. Once it's an old story about the only persons who will know anything about it will be those who take part. --The Boston Transcript...
...seven innings the game was a pitchers' duel between L. B. Belknap '30, Sophomore moundsman, and H. H. Chung '29, Junior hurler. In the eighth inning, the Juniors tallied five times by capitalizing Sophomore errors to put the game...
...competition for places on the first eight this spring has not yet ended, according to Coach Heard. He will continue to alternate James de Normandie '29 and F. B. Lee '29 at stroke in order to arrive at a decision concerning their duel for the pace-maker's post. One other change in the seating made recently was the shift of F. E. Farnsworth '29 to a starboard oar at No. 3 in order to make place...
While they have not met in a duel track meet before, Michigan and Harvard have clashed in other sports. Back on October 31, 1881, a Michigan football team visited Cambridge and lost by a single touchdown. November 9, 1885, the University beat Michigan again 4 to 0. And in 1914 the Crimson again triumphed 7 to 0. In baseball the two met in 1892, 1894, and 1901, the University winning in each case, 4 to 2, 7 to 5, and 5 to 4 respectively...