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Jimmy De Mers of the Los Angeles A. C. threw his arm out of joint the first time he tossed the javelin. That was too bad for him but a good thing for the British Empire v. U.S. track meet at Soldier Field, Chicago, last week. It made things exciting...
Henry John was religious. For more than 20 years he was superintendent of a Methodist Sunday School, although he had been brought up a strict Lutheran. His parents wanted him to become a minister and this religious attitude he kept throughout his life. How sore his heart when word was...
Evans may well have marked this Carter wistfully, a lad whose 19 sum- mers nearly matched Evans' age (18) when he won his first Western Amateur title in 1909. And Mrs. Carter, trudging faithfully in the galleries, may well have felt her maternal bosom rapturously expand. Her slight son...
At the Battery, "cheering thousands" awaited. There were "salesladies," stenographers, clerks, bond-salesmen, mers." commuters, There street were sheiks, idlers, "representatives "bum of 23 organizations"-chiefly athletic clubs and life insurance companies. The heroes and heroines sailed across from Hoboken. The Fire Department Band struck up the National Anthem. All...