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...half hour after 12 o'clock noon, two crows, calm and collected, were waiting on the Thames ready to dip their oars, about a minute later the starter's gun barked and off they were, rowing a smooth beat, while a slowly drizzling rain gradually was turning into a heavier downpour. That was the start of the eighty-second Oxford-Cambridge boat race last Saturday on the historic Thames. The two crews were tied in the number of victories--there were 40 wins for each and one dead heat--and now these two historic colleges, rich in tradition, were...
...Senate he has done little beyond support farm legislation. He is no great liberal, especially when compared with his Farmer-Labor colleague, Senator Henrik Shipstead. He voted for Tax Reduction (1926, 1928, 1930), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928, 1929), Flood Control (1928), the Jones (heavier Prohibition penalties) Law (1929), the Navy's 15-cruiser bill (1929), Radio Control (1928), Boulder...
...voted against the Jones (heavier Prohibition penalties) Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), the Soldier Bonus (1924). His own campaign declaration about himself: "There is probably no greater friend of the World War veterans than Colorado's Senator Lawrence C. Phipps...
Squash. Red walled court; racquet like a tennis racquet but smaller, rounder; ball like a tennis ball but heavier, faster. Before young Harry Wolf got on the court with Rowland Haines to play for the National Amateur Squash Tennis Championship, Rowland Dufton, the professional at the New York Athletic Club, taught him a special stroke to use in that one match -a stroke which Dufton said would win for him. It was a drive straight into the front wall corners that skidded off the back wall and dropped dead. "Mix it up with a soft game," Dufton advised him. "Hyde...
...Pennsylvania team scheduled for tomorrow. So far the Crimson grapplers have a record of one defeat at the hands of M. I. T., a tie with Columbia, and victories over Tufts, Boston University, Army, and Brown. In all these matches the team has shown decided superiority in the heavier classes. The group making the trip is a follows: C. G. Chase '30, 115-pound class; Arthur Klein '32, 125-pound class; H. R. Elsas '32, 135-pound class; R. K. Safford Jr. '31, 145-pound class; W. A. Robertson '31, 155-pound class; J. F. Solano '30, 165-pound class...