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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...
...afforded to Varsity rooters by the game performance of Walt Bullard, who stayed the Blue tide temporarily in the 220-yard free-style. The vet Freshman's first here in 2:16.0 set a new Yardling record with the five points. But the Bulldog clung right to the Crimson fetlock with second and third...
...first furlong he was in second place, coming up in an open switch on the inside of Ariel Toy, the pacemaker. Suddenly Ariel Toy closed the switch by cutting towards the rail. Thingumabob reared, then crumpled. His right front ankle had snapped above the fetlock. He limped to the outside fence, fell to his knees, gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead...
...there was a casualty. Prince Henry, third son of the royal house, galloping at the head of his company of Mercian Hussars fetlock deep in mud, dawn a country road, was caught in the open by advancing Wessex tanks, spitting death from their three-pound guns. He dismounted and stood grinning by the roadside in his steel helmet, crying: "I guess we're out of action!" even before the umpires wrote him down as "killed in the field of battle...
...college felloes are goode and pious, but there are two whom y Evil One hath enthrald. They - poor wicket creatures! do frequently sneak to a forest in the neighbouring hamlet of Watertown and do play cards, y which offence is punishable with expulsion. I pray daily that the fetlock of sin may be loosed from them, but I fear lest the devil harden their hearts against repentance. Now, I must say farewell, for 't is nine o' the clock, and we retire regularly at this hour...