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...their seven-place brass band playing "Kirkland." "Hit the Line for Kirkland," and "Ten Thousand Men of Kirkland," the gallant men of Smith Halls trooped, staggered, and meandered up to Adams, where they stood and shouted scurrilous things at their enemies. When Gold Coasters had responded in kind as well as with a pail of water, the Deacons about faced and marched home again, finishing the evening with a solid rendition of "Fair Kirkland...
Orme Wilson, in the fourth seeded spot, also reached the semi-finals yesterday as he snuffed out a gallant bid for an upset by Barney Straus. Wilson, this year's tennis captain, won the three set contest...
...only other player to reach the quarters was Hugh Hyde, who subdued a gallant bid for an upset yesterday by Norm Neagle. Hyde had difficulty winning the first set 8-6 and looked beaten as he lost the second 6-3, but bounced back in the nick of time to save the last...
...English adventurer in the service of the East India Company, at the age of 21 Jamie Brooke had been wounded in a battle in the Brahmaputra valley, mutilated and doomed to a childless future. Unable to marry, he took to the sea, which he said "wants nothing but a gallant heart from her lover." He put into Blidah Fort, Borneo, helped suppress a rebellion against a Malay prince, wound up by becoming absolute monarch of 50,000 square miles of viciously virginal jungle in northwest Borneo...
Cried a Miss Henderson: "If men were really chivalrous and gallant they would be holding this demonstration...