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Before a University of Pennsylvania Alumni Day crowd of 20,000 people, J. N. Barbee '28, Crimson twirling ace, lost a pitching duel to Foster Sanford Jr., enabling the Quaker star to win a 4 to 1 victory for Pennsylvania Saturday afternoon, the latter's second triumph this season over the Crimson. The game substantially strengthen the claim of the Quakers to the mythical Eastern collegiate baseball championship, they having won the Quadrangular league championship last Friday, and having just one more game to play with a record of 19 victories and five defeats...
Heretic Barton, having sketched a frockless Catholic priest conducting a Quaker meeting house in Utopia, finished his article with an affirmation which none might well deny...
...holes, Jones found himself possessed of still another title. To his U. S. Open and British Open titles, he had added that of his native Dixieland. Professionals Johnny Farrell, Quaker Ridge, N. Y., and John Golden, Patterson, N. J., were tied for second place, eight strokes behind the winder's 281. In an especially arranged playoff two days later, Golden defeated Fanell 70-71, took the first cash award...
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Sirs: As a member of the Society of Friend- may I make a small protest against calling anyone a "Quaker Devildog," or one who fought in 22 wars and is off to another fight "a sturdy Quaker" "We utterly deny all outward wars for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever," a testimony issued in 1660 has been followed consistently by an unbroken succession of such declarations through all wars since. It does not jibe somehow with your statement. Once I heard someone introduce Smedley Butler's father, the Congressman, as a Quaker, and he hastily denied it, saying...