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When play ended, 21-14, 21-19, in Manhattan last week, Barna had maintained the supremacy which his admirers take for granted. His winning match, however, had been the hardest in his four-week tour of the U. S., which it ended. Young McClure, an 18-year-old who has been in the front rank of U. S. ping-pongists for only a year, had amply justified his right to represent the U. S. in the World Singles Championship this week in London...
Harvard will not increase the length of the spring football practice session this year, it was revealed by the announcement yesterday that the Crimson gridders will open a four-week program of daily workouts on March...
...French schoolboys know who won the Tour de France last year and care very much who wins this year. And many a French sport lover in the provinces may see the Tour de France cyclists without undue effort because the race, starting and ending in Paris, is a four-week 2,600-mile, clockwise grind around the mountains and seacoasts that fringe the country. One day last week 60 grim-faced entrants, jockey caps pulled low and rumps raised high, whizzed north down the slopes of Montmartre, bound for Lille, end of the first day's 162-mile...
Unimpressed, the Board of Education eyed with satisfaction its $4,000,000 economy. Added to more than $1,000,000 in business and administrative economies, another $4,000,000 saved by a four-week shortening of the school term, it almost wipes out the board's expected $10,000,000 deficit...
...than five years, some of whom have been with it 25, took their trouping humorously, although most of them had never trouped farther away from home than Belfast or London before. This year the tour is to be made strictly "on the plush." Towns to be visited after their four-week stay in Manhattan: Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Toronto, Kansas City, St. Louis, Boston. Some of the Irish Players, like Eileen Crowe and Udolphus Wright, keep 300 parts fresh in mind. Last week's repertoire included...