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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the House passed a rivers and harbors bill. Such bills are usually like public buildings bills-something of a pork barrel measure. The scene in the House at passage seems less like a logrolling match than a cat and dog fight. There were three parts of the bill that aroused special opposition: 1) An appropriation of $1,500,000 to provide a nine-foot waterway from Chicago to the Mississippi River, thereby connecting the Great Lakes and the Gulf. 2) $100,000 for a survey of the so-called All-American route (through New York) for a canal...
Playing for the Copley-Plaza Trophy this afternoon, the Crimson polo team faces the peak of its outdoor season in the next two weeks. Today's match will see the Harvard ponies galloping against those of the Dedham Polo and Country Club. Two games at Myopia are scheduled for this week, and on June 19 at the Westchester Biltmore Country Club the quartet will be fighting to defend its intercollegiate title...
...University ponies are in the best condition for today's match. Those of Stranahan have just arrived. He has already worked out with them but the game today will be the first opportunity he has had to ride them against opposition...
...speak, nor could he see the ball. Nobility won the set 9-7 and changed courts for the third, remarking, as he sniffed the air, that whoever had last played on that side had made it stink fearfully of the kitchen. Young Wetzel threw down his racket. The match went to nobility by default...
...course the Americans were slaughtering each other too. Sweetser had beaten dangerous Francis Ouimet, who had previously eliminated George Von Elm. But Bobby Jones, playing at the top of his game, stood between Harris and the demi semifinal. Their match, the first meeting in title play of a U. S. and a British champion, was the most spectacular of the tournament. At the very third stroke Jones holed an approach for a birdie. He made five more birdies in the next eleven holes. He trounced Harris eight up and six to go, and Harris was by no means off form...