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...dutiful pains throughout his easy-going pages to give credit where due to the men who have made game fishing into a well-defined national sport. Examples: To oldtime Charley Thompson, credit for guiding the first party to take a sailfish on rod & reel, in 1901, after an 87-pounder had jumped into his boat and nearly speared a lady...
...military weapon were thought of long before the World War. During the U. S. Civil War, Brigadier General W. N. Pendleton of the Confederate Army wrote to an ordnance officer asking whether "stink shells" which he had seen mentioned in a newspaper could not be used in 12-pounder howitzers and whether "the explosion can be combined with suffocating effect of certain offensive gases." The stink shells were not tried. At The Hague Conference of 1899 an agreement banning the use of gas projectiles was signed by 24 nations including Germany. After the chlorine attack at Ypres, Allied...
Another top notch Crimson wrestler is dependable 175 pounder Johnny Harkness, who halls from Milton Academy, has lost but one dual match in College and that to Penn State's great Ross Shaffer. As a Freshman he was the New England champion in his class, but he will have his hands full tomorrow when he faces Sophomore Clarke of the Elis, who last year toppled the Crimson Yardling leader, Cochran. Bill Goslin and Jerry Piel have been running neck and neck and for the 165 pound berth, and the latter, with three years of Varsity experience behind him, will probably...
...pounds is Junior Dwight Ellis, who dropped a very close decision in the Princeton meet, but who is punching better, should stand at least a fair chance at Charlottesville. 125 pounder Jim Kosterollos has lost only one meet in College--to Archie Hahn, Virginia's Southern Conference Champion of two years ago. Little Bill Seigal will get the call over Chatfield at 115 pounds, is one of the best boxers at that weight Lamar has had here in Cambridge...
Easily the outstanding 145-pounder is Dwight Ellis '38. Ellis was Yardling captain two years ago and a regular last year. A fast, clever boxer, he is undefeated in dual meets...