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...Track meet yesterday afternoon. O'Neil, who scintillated as a Freshman but showed a decided relapse last year, has been running in top form this season and stepped the distance yesterday in the exceptionally fast time of 1 minute 16 3-5 seconds. Leness, who finished third, was the mainstay of the M. I. T. team last year and is known as one of the best middle distance runners in the east. W. H. Hulsman '29 granted a 15-yard handicap, was the second to cross the line. He ran on last year's Freshman relay team...
...quarterback of the successful 1922 team; E. L. Casey '19, one of the greatest halfbacks the University has ever had, and present coach of the Freshman team; M. A. Cheek, Jr., '26, captain of last year's University eleven; and George Owen '23, for three years a backfield mainstay of Coach Fisher's teams, will be the veterans to speak...
...citizens of the U. S. and Argentina, who are the mainstay of the Concert, wondered idly at the number of "natives" present. The first act passed without an explanation. During the entre-acte a line of men and women in evening dress formed docilely in the lobby, purchased tickets to the single washroom for 75 centimes each (3c),* filed in and out with equanimity...
...national title holder who won the crown at Buffalo while leading the University racquet men to a national championship last year was the mainstay of the Crimson squad for three years as an undergraduate. His play in the Metropolitan tournament has evoked admiration from all who have seen him play, and his ultimate triumph was a foregone conclusion...
Certainly no baseball pitcher, perhaps no player in any game, had a triumph equal to Mathewson's in the famed World Series of 1905. Plank, the mainstay of the Athletics, was a fine pitcher, heady and fast, but he could be scored on, Mathewson could not. There were other men with the Giants besides Mathewson; occasionally they came up to bat; they did not have much else to do. While the enormous crowds shouted themselves into a frenzy, and small boys and statesmen muttered his name in their sleep-a name heard round far more of the world than...