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...individual star was apparent in the Crimson ranks, but Tommy Ritchi for Cambridge stole the honors for the Englishmen with a total of 25 points on one try, four penalty kicks, and five conversions...
Y00esterday's matches; the second defeat for the Englishmen in two starts here, proved conclusively superiority of the American game. The Cambridge racquetmen are the first British collegiate squash team ever to compete in United States...
...Englishmen came over on the "Queen Mary" with the rugby team, and will play a graduate team tomorrow. The varsity team will be represented by A. W. Sulloway '37, G. B. Blake '38, F. H. Appleton 3rd '38, H. DeKruif '37, and C. S. Oakman...
...Saturday last week some 5,000,000 Englishmen were playing soccer. Almost 1,000,000 more were watching their favorite professional teams perform. For most of the week, nearly half the population of England, hoping to forecast the results of Saturday's big-league matches, had been nibbling pencils, marking numerals and crosses on little printed slips. Saturday night, three out of four Englishmen were gathered around radios to hear the results of the games. For soccer is the most popular sport in England...
...generation Englishmen have played with the idea of mounting one airplane on the back of another on the theory that if they could be separated in midair it would "solve the fundamental problem of launching long-range aeroplanes with a full load . . . eliminate the take-off altogether." In 1916, an air force lieutenant named Day crudely accomplished this by lifting a Bullet scout plane from the wing of a Porte flying boat. Since then blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Robert Hobart Mayo, Cambridge graduate, airplane designer, and technical adviser to Imperial Airways, has worked on the idea. Backed by Imperial...