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Parlor magic, unlike most other divisions of skill and science, is far from dominated by professionals. Unknown to the public are numberless amateurs. They play a game of baffle among themselves. Some 500 members, amateur and professional, of the Society of American Magicians (total membership about 1,650), held their annual convention last week in Manhattan and brotherly baffling was the order of the hour. The magicians dined and danced. Then, in secret session, they baffled each other and exchanged secrets about new or improved apparatus, magicianly "patter" (conversation) and humor, the art of distracting the attention of the tricked...
...mass of undergraduates who know nothing about fencing and have never been inside of a salon the name of M. Danguy means little. But to the group who swear eternal allegiance to the play of the swordsman--and there is no group of sportsmen anywhere more loyal to their game than fencers--the resignation of the man who has directed Harvard fencing for eight years means the passing of a well loved personality. Fresh from the schools of France, where swordsmanship is still the gentleman's exercise, M. Danguy brought to Harvard a knowledge of the sport which his Gallic...
...special park near the Ocean House has been engaged for the annual base-ball game, and those who wish to play golf will have the privilege of the North Shore Golf and Country Club at Salem. Dinner will be served at the New Ocean House at 7 o'clock...
...head by M. Danguy in the fencing room will ever forget it. And those who have absently whistled a tune in the same sanctum will remember that such an exhibition of contentment is a breach of fencing etiquette. It was in the observance of such by-laws of his game that M. Danguy made himself known as much as in his ability to give to others something of his own skill. He will be missed by those who knew him, and their good wishes follow him to his retirement...
With the mythical championship of Eastern College nines now visibly within its reach, the Holy Cross baseball nine will array its forces in diamond encounter against the Crimson team at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. This is the second tilt of the annual two-game series, the first of which the Crusader sluggers annexed last Saturday, 10 to 3. The Harvard aggregation should do better this afternoon, back in its own bailiwick, than it did last week on Worcester soil, but the struggle is sure to be keenly contested even if the Harvard pitching staff is able...