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Lacey, a powerful Freshman 175-pounder who was Exeter's chief threat last year, will top the Yardling matmen. VARSITY FRESHMAN Ross 118-pound Freed Dally 126-pound Schoenberg Richter 135-pound Murray Lindenfelser 145-pound Richardson, W. Gosline 155-pound Richardson, E. Daughaday 165-pound Barnes, B. Kidder 175-pound Lacey Boston unlimited Eliot
...fighting for the 135-1b. berth, with Bosler now ruling favorite. Weak point in the outfit is 126-1b, division in which two Sophomores, Jim Sears and Louis Daily have been working together. Daily, a Freshman substitute has been able to keep the last year's 118-pounder on the ground, but Johnson expressed confidence that Sears will improve...
...TIME'S Managing Editor John Stuart Martin: the North American tuna record ; by bringing to gaff an 821-pounder off Liverpool, Nova Scotia. U. S. sportsmen penetrated these old market fishing grounds three years ago, attracted by reports that the giant, powerful "horse mackerel" grew big and were more plentiful there than anywhere else. Previous Liverpool and North American record was a 788-pounder caught last August by Dr. John R. ("Goat Gland") Brinkley of Del Rio, Texas. Last month Mrs. Earl Potter of Brookville, L. I. won the women's world record there with a 757-pounder...
Shouting hard to make themselves heard above the blasting of six and eight inch guns the bursting of 100-lb. bombs, the Augusta's officers held an investigation to decide whether the one pounder that killed Freddie John came from a Chinese or Japanese muzzle. Prudently they decided that proof was impossible...
...likely to be highly inaccurate. He himself has learned to sight meteor paths with extraordinary precision. On one occasion he sighted a fireball, marked out its probable course by drawing a line on a map. This line passed through the very field in which the meteorite, a splendid 820-pounder, was located a month later...