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...that Massachusetts Institute of Technology will also run in the Dartmouth races, both University and Freshman. Following are the two schedules: University: Friday, October 3, Holy Cross: Friday, October 10, New Hampshire: Friday, October 24, Dartmouth and M.I.T.: Friday, October 31. Yale at New Haven: Friday, November 7, University Handicap: Monday, November 17, Intercollegiates at New York. Freshman: Friday, October 10. New Hampshire and Holy Cross: Friday, October 24, Dartmouth and Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Friday, October 31. Yale at New Haven: Friday, November 7, University Handicap. The Intercollegiates, in which the Harvard runners placed eighth, and Hallowell individually fifteenth...
...traveled Harrison King McCann, who believes in an "open door" office and encourages his executives to stand on their own feet, think with their own brains. A frequent host, a frequent guest, he sings & plays much and well; likes horses, dogs, hunting, billiards, golf (in which his national handicap was once 8), says with modest mendacity that he does many things, all badly. He has a reverse superstition about the number thirteen, for his company is called the Thirteen Company.* His chief abhorrence is modern...
...only one-half anthracite's ash, one-quarter its moisture; a high yield of gas and tar. Gas is salable, tar less so. Former projects have suffered through inability to obtain a balanced market for these byproducts. Prestcoke's prospects are brightest west of the Alleghenies, where freight charges handicap anthracite fatally. Even there it will meet bitter competition from fast-burning coke, gas, oil, and the new automatic stokers, which employ small sizes of bituminous coal with promising results...
...Vandalia, Ohio, three Ohio men and a Texas boy tied ahead of 962 other contestants, with 97 birds out of 100, for the country's most important trapshooting championship - the Grand American Handicap. The men, taut-faced, middleaged, were J. L. Scott and Dan Casey of Toledo and Lawrence Crampton of Dayton. The boy, least nervous of the four, was Alfred Rufus King Jr. of Wichita Falls, son of famed Marksman Rufus A. King, 1921 winner of the Governor's cup. Short and slender for his 14 years, he looked out of place beside his competitors as they...
Edward, Prince of Wales, played such excellent golf at Le Touquet, France, that he was declared champion golfer of royalty, had his Le Touquet handicap lowered from twelve strokes to five...