Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller, the 205-pound Crimson sprinter, is expected to be a high scorer in the dash. He has lost only one race this year and has beaten most of the men who will contest his claim tonight. He is running in top form and should take a number of first places...
Last fall Cox broke Tibbetts' cross country record, and is considered the strongest entry in the two mile race. However Captain Haggerty won two first places in last week's meet and will start in a confident mood...
...schoolboy team. The meet will take place at 2:30 o'clock. Exeter knowing the strength of their opponents, has not sent it's relay team to New York to run in the Intercollegiates, as they have done in past years. The hundred yard dash will be a good race between T.E. Mason, the Freshman sprinter who won two first places against Andover, and Captain Moore of Exeter who has run the distance in 36.6 seconds. Exeter is also counting on Coombs and Cobb, both middle distance runners, to win their events. However W.G. Dooley seems a sure winner...
...Jewish family has most efficiently exploited these gifts of their race in modern times? The House of Rothschild comes instantly to mind. One Amschel Moses, a peddler so obscure that he did not know his own surname, set up a shop in Jew Street, Frankfort, two centuries ago, with a rothes schild (red shield) over the door. From that advertisement the House of Rothschild takes its name. Today it stands for a family with, some say, two billion dollars in worldly goods, great banking houses in London, Vienna, Paris and the motto: Servare Modum, Finemque Tenere ("Be moderate, and never...
...Cutts '28, J. N. Barbee '28 and R. H. Booth '27 are expected to be present as well as some promising twirlers from last year's Freshman outfit. For the catcher's berth Henry Chauncey '28 and E. J. Steptoe '29 are expected to stage a close race. Chauncey caught for the University team last year and Steptoe was a pitcher on the first year nine. He is to be given a chance behind the plate because of his batting ability and certain features of his playing which point him out as a potential catcher...