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...Maroon Batters Score Twice in First...
Conducting its first extensive foreign invasion, the Maroon will journey to New England with ten consecutive victories behind it. Yesterday afternoon, however, the aggregation from Pennsylvania, though outhitting their opponents 13 to 7, suffered its initial setback of the year by a 7 to 6 score at the hands of the Tufts batters after ten innings of play...
...these latest models require the very pink of passengerhood. Only the jolliest, most debonair of present-day gallants could fittingly adorn the La Salle-Fisher Laughing Cavalier. Students of the Hals painting have provided it with hood and cowl of Wissahickon green; lower body, fenders and gear of deep maroon; wire wheels, rear deck and body above moulding of Talina brown; roof and rear quarters of tan Burbank silk mohair; mouldings of gold leaf...
...Johnson was appointed editor-in-chief, and a com mittee cast about to find sufficient funds to start the work. Funds ($500,000) were speedily donated on behalf of the New York Times by its publisher and control ling owner, Adolph S. Ochs. The first volume is a dignified maroon tome. The biographies are entertaining, lucid, informative. There are no pictures. The publishers (Charles Scribner's Sons, Manhattan) are selling the first volume for $12.50, will sell the complete set 6 years hence...
...Shakespeare took the pass from center, juggled it a moment, and tossed to Roosevelt. A second to balance himself, and Roosevelt shot a pass on a bullet-like trajectory to Smithers, wing-footed Maroon end. As Smithers, four yards from a touchdown, felt the pigskin against his chest, the lithe form of Codfish Cabot, the doughty little Massachusetts quarterback, hit him amidships, and down he went. Roosevelt crashed the line, but Tiny Timm, giant guard, blocked his way. Again Roosevelt drove, and this time over the line...