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...clock tonight in the Harvard Club of Boston there will be a meeting to arrange the details of the open handicap meet which will be held in the Stadium on June 9. The particular questions which will be discussed tonight are those concerning the number and character of the special events which will be run off, and the men who will be invited to take part in these events. All the other contests of the meet, except those invitation events which will be arranged for tonight, will be open to any registered Amateur Athletic Union athlete...
...great handicap in the use of the airplane for mail carrying has hitherto been the loss of time through inability to fly at night. According to a statement by Postmaster General New, night flying will be inaugurated in July or August and a continuous service between New York and San Francisco will cover the intervening 3,000 miles in 28 hours...
Invitations have been extended by the Athletic Association to Joie Ray, J. W. (Jake) Driscoll and several other prominent sprint and distance runners to compete in the open handicap track meet held under the auspices of the H. A. A. on June 9 at Soldiers Field. Ray, who is the National amateur mile champion and one of the greatest distance runners in the world, is now representing the Illinois Athletic Club. Driscoll is a former Boston College track star and National quarter-mile champion. He is now wearing the colors of the Boston Athletic Association. The main events...
...intercollegiate polo Championship of the East at Fort Hamilton Governor's islands N. Y., this afternoon. The winner this match will meet on next Thursday the victor of the Harvard Norwich match on Tuesday. Although both Yale and Corner will enter the contest today with no handicap, Yale is favored to win as it has had slightly more experience and at the same time, has beaten the Pennsylvania Military College 6 to 4, white Cornell lost to the same team by the score...
More candidates are needed for the University Register competition which opened with a meeting of candidates last night. Additional competitors, who will be under no handicap due to their late start, should report in Hollis 27 at 7 o'clock tonight. The competition is open to all members of the Freshman and Sophomore classes and will last approximately five weeks very little work being required during the period of final examinations. The work will be of entirely editorial nature consisting of compiling material for the 1923-24 volume...