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...most individual and matured of British schools. But even here is that insuperable tradition which aims today as it did when Percy Bysshe Shelley was at Eton to stamp every boy with the mark of the British game-playing gentleman. Games begin in the Autumn Term with footer and soccer.- Hardy youngsters may join the Eton Beagles and hunt hares on foot-a sport which last February the British League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports protested (TIME. Feb. 9). Everyone at Eton looks forward to St. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30) when the famed Wall Game takes place...
...Rugby was invented the schoolboy terminology "Rugger." Other schools still say "footer" for football, which each school plays according to its own rules...
...shooter presented him by the citizens of Laredo-no one was prouder of this biggest Ranger roundup in two years than William ("Bill") Sterling. Last month he became commandant of the Rangers when Governor Ross D. Sterling (no kin) appointed him Adjutant General of the State. A lean six-footer, he is a graduate of Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, was a lieutenant of infantry during the War but was kept from going overseas by powder-burned eyes. He has been a Ranger for four years, having commanded troopers in the border country. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum has selected...
...only mistakes in the greatest round that he or any man ever played in a U. S. Open. He did it with his mashie niblick, playing doubtful carries short and laying approaches dead. Though he had nine one-putt greens, the longest putt he sank was his ten-footer on the first...
Others in this class included Auto-Hydro-Craft's metal boats, Dee Wite, and four Hacker Craft, cheapest of which was a 24-footer at $3,150. Aeolian Co., whose wood products include pianos, and pipe organs, showed the Aco "Seaboats." Meteor Motor Car Co., a hearse-maker who last year turned to motorboats, did not show...