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...Harris and Conlin featuring for the Vermont team, and Hallock for the Crimson. In the beginning of the twelfth, however, the visitors made their final effort, and brought in their fourth tally, Burns, who had doubled to center, scoring on Brock's neat clout to left. The University proved powerless in its half, and the game ended with the Granite State nine on the long end of the score...
...hard to say," Senator Ladd concluded, "just when the movement will begin, but there will undoubtedly be signs of it next July, when the railroads attempt to pay their semi-annual dividends, for, in my opinion, they will be absolutely powerless to do so--lay-offs and cuts in expenses notwithstanding. It will be by this first definite sign of weakness that the country in general will be awakened to the need of governmental control...
...University players were powerless at the bat for eight innings, but at the end of the ninth, in an attempt to present a shut-out, they gave some signs of ability. The crowd was about to leave the stands, but stopped for a moment to see it Conion, first man up, could start anything: he did, with a hit past third that was too hot for Kopf to handle. Emerson at second on Lincoln's grounder to Kopf. Owen flied out, Conlon and Lincoln came home on Ross' wild pitch. Hallock and Crocker singled, but Murphy...
When the rival teams stepped onto the ice shortly after 2 o'clock the Crimson was a decided favorite, but instead of making the best of its opportunity to score early over the supposedly weak Yale cubs, the team seemed dazed and powerless before the brilliant dashes of O'Hearn who showed the utmost self-confidence from the moment the puck first dropped between the two centers until he went off the ice a victor at the end of the third period. Norris at coverpoint was, next to O'Hearn,' the best Yale man on the ice and his tally...
...evidently discovered, as did Leygues before him, that it is "that indomitable little Welshman," Lloyd George, who holds the reins. The English Premier has digested the warlike spleen of three French cabinets, and seems to be thriving on the diet. The French people, with all their elections, are powerless...