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Belle was started on the primrose path by a seducer. One day, when she was 18, Bandit Cole Younger and five other horsemen rode up to her father's farmhouse in eastern Texas. A big man with steel-blue eyes and fine, curly hair, Cole Younger, with his brothers and the James clan, had staged the country's first bank robbery -in Liberty, Tex., in 1866. He read theology on the side...
Riding rough-shed over their Crimson rivals, the Yale Polo Team completely routed the Harvard horsemen Saturday afternoon to score a decisive 14 to 1 victory in their final match of the season. Tom Higgonson, number 3 man on the quartet, scored Harvard's lone marker...
Despite a wet and slippery field, the Army Polo team rode rough-shod over the Crimson horsemen Saturday afternoon, chalking up an 11 to 2 score. Early in the opening period Higginson scored Harvard's only real goal, the other score being hung up on a plenty tally in the fourth frame...
...reign at Notre Dame is the dream of many a college football coach. Yet last week Elmer Layden voluntarily left the campus that had made him famed-first as one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame and later as successor to his teacher, the late great Knute Rockne. The old Horseman took a practical view of the matter. "I did it for the future welfare of my family," said he. "The National Football League is the fastest growing institution in American sport. I hope and believe I can be helpful in the further development of the organization." Layden...
...active command of the force was one of these unhorsed horsemen: peppery, profane little Major General Charles L. Scott, a onetime polo player and chief of the old cavalry's Remount Service. Adna Chaffee, having done more than any other U. S. soldier to compel respect for the tank, was ill in Boston. Pneumonia had sapped him, left him no better than a good fighter's chance to dirty his face again...