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Grantiand Rice of the New York Sun: "One of football's classics. Here is a game that goes a long way back and has known more color and action than most of the traditional games. Spreyer and Lea gave Harvard the victory...
...Mourned Colonel Luke Lea of Nashville. Tenn. (who almost kidnapped Kaiser Wilhelm II from a castle at Amerongen, Holland in 1919): "The U. S. is not at war. . . . Therefore ... no American can accept the alluring adventure advanced by President Church...
...return for the $19,500,000 cost in public funds (1935) of the Mississippi, Warrior and Illinois River systems (said the Eastman report), barge routes saved shippers less than $7,000,000. Last week the Senate-House conference committee agreed to report out the Wheeler-Lea bill, which would put inland water transportation under ICC control...
...Crimson club, however, led by Mike Rice, Lea Pitchford, and Ed Buckley, seems to have too much balance and batting punch for the dangerous Elis. The Blue first year men have had a good season, but they fell before Andover, while the Crimson later stopped the winning streak of the Royal Blue and beat them...
When the race was over, 21,000 astonished fans realized that thoroughbreds are thoroughly unpredictable. The mighty Stagehand, a notoriously slow starter, lacked the stretch-running drive to overtake the leaders this time, finished three lengths behind speedy Bull Lea and a half length behind Marshall Field's Sir Damion...