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...players, including long-hitting Cyril Tolley, " ancient " Bernard Darwin, Roger Wethered, C. V. L. Hooman, E. W. E. Holderness, conducted experiments. Wethered managed to hew out a 77. Tolley, who can drive over 300 yards with abnormal rubber cored ball, did little better than 200 with his gutta percha pellet...
...prowess of ex-Judge Landis in the national game which he rules may be restricted to contemplation from the stands, but he has his talents. Let him but affix his eye to the golfer's dimpled pellet and his gaze never wavers save to follow a long, curving flight along the fairway...
Indeed, the average college man is a victim of what Tolstoy termed "the school state of mind",--a state in which every thing scholarly appears a-priori difficult, and the student regards himself not an eager seeker for truth, but a patient forced to receive a distasteful pellet of learning. Probably most men actually apply more alert thought to choosing their clothing and food than to their properly-intellectual tasks...
...more or less problematic because the last of the three umpires, about to announce the score, slipped on wet ground and broke his word. The knock-out drops of Francke and Pabst were too much for the Frenchmen who passed out repeatedly after three feeble whiffs at the pellet. The afternoon was voted a most successful one by all present...
Brow meets brow on Soldiers Field this morning at ten, when our own Phi Beets meet their Yale brethren in a clash for physical supremacy. The pristine pellet will be hurled hither and you with most unscholarly abandon, and the Sons of the Midnight Oil will undoubtedly perform monumental feats in their desperate efforts to bring home the Bacon. The local team is greatly strengthened by the arrival of C. P. Curtis, Jr., '14, who has come all the way from Europe to participate. E. A. Hetter '14, of Lampoon infamy, will act as the board of arbitration...