Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUR NEWSWEEK McCALL ARTICLE YOU MIGHT ALSO WELL HAVE SAID THAT "MR. WARNER HAD THE SKILL OR LUCK TO PICK" EDITOR HARRY PAYNE BURTON NOW OF COSMOPOLITAN WHO TOOK A HOPELESSLY AMATEURISH PATTERN MAGAZINE FROM A MILLION CIRCULATION TO MORE THAN TWO MILLION...
...Sage of the Age doesn't know much about track anyway, but his adviser, No Foo Lin says with Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Yale competing the scores will be 34, 32, 27, and 24. Pick your own winners. Them's the scores and he's Allen for tonight...
...Hallowell, Art Foote and Bob Playfair are still remembered. But this year the only two miler worth much is Henry Marcy, and he has been laid up with illness; although he will be in there tomorrow, he is far from the top of his form and will probably not pick up much better than a fourth place...
...mile relay race is one of the easiest in which to pick the winner; everyone says Cornell will take it hands down. This quartet hit 3 minutes 23.2 seconds in the B.A.A. meet, and with no middle distance events scheduled, all the runners will be fresh and ready to hit a new low time. Johnny Nevius, who broke the Yale-Cornell meet record last week with a 50.2 second leg will make up the team with Ham Hucker, brilliant veteran quarter-miler, Jim Pender, the sprinter and Walt Tatum...
...difficult meet to dope. The four teams are going to be so close together that a slip on the part of any one of them will throw the meet to someone else. Even Harvard might win, if Northrop take the mile, the two mile relay team wins, and they pick up a few other scattered points. But for better or worse, here goes on the way they look at present...