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...Partlow '41, will be fighting it out nip and tuck with Daniel Miles, captain of the visiting aggregation, for supremacy in the high jump. Partlow made quite a mark for himself on the Freshman team last year and has been doing consistently good jumping this winter, hitting six feet one inch. Northeastern's Miles can clear the bar at six feet four inches...
...show where he has removed boards for use in his tunnel. In the summers he worked on a ranch to get money for more tunneling. For clothing he used garments discarded by other prospectors, patched them with flour sacking. He does not smoke or chew, but takes a nip of wine occasionally. He has never, he says, been lonely. Once he came stumbling into the shack of a neighbor, shaking and bloody. "Bad cave in," he said. "Nearly got me that time...
Piece de resistance of this umpire, however, is his ability to nip trouble in the bud. Upon being asked what was the toughest time he ever had, he mentioned the Duke-Wake Forest game over a decade ago as being "the nearest to trouble...
Authoritative sources indicate that Ulen will conclude his remarks with his annual precautionary nip against colds. "For generations man has worn...
...second day Spectator Vines watched Defending Champion Johnny Goodman, the last of the Walker Cuppers, ousted by Connecticut socialite Dick Chapman, who took a nip of whiskey out of a Coca-Cola bottle after every hole, kept the gallery in suspense until he finally conquered his opponent, 2 & 1. The field of 162 had narrowed down to four -and still Spectator Vines could not leave Pittsburgh. Pat Abbott was one of the semifinalists, along with three other dark horses: 23-year-old Edwin Kingsley, a husky Utah ore sampler who had tasted his first sip of fame when he eliminated...