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Within four years, drowsing California was to grow from 20,000 people (excluding the Indians nobody ever bothered to count) to more than 200,000; some $200 million worth of gold was to be scooped and strained from stream beds and hillsides, and California itself was to enter the Union (in 1850) as the 31st state...
That was last month. When Sunshine closed, they put me on a train and sent me up here. The day we got to Lincoln there were six inches of snow on the ground. Anybody who would open a New England track this early would enter his grandmother in a claiming race...
Lacrosse is a fluid game, resembling hockey played on a field 110 yards long and 60 to 70 yards wide. The object of the game, according to the august words of the Official Rules, is "to score by causing the ball to enter the opponent's goal." For this purpose the lacrosse player is given a crosse made of four to six feet of wood topped by a rawhide net in which the ball is caught and carried around the field. The ball can be kicked but not touched by the hands...
...stories of his rough & tumble brawling which has caused him to be barred from more than one Houston club. He likes expensive hobbies. Last year his planes came in one, two and four in the Bendix air race. He is rumored to be spending $100,000 to enter a car in this year's Indianapolis auto race. A crack shot, he spends much of his spare time hunting on his 15,000-acre ranch with his wife and five children. There are weeks when they see little of him. He likes to dash around the country...
Unescorted women will not be allowed to enter the building. Visitors may also tour Lamont during vacation...