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...eight years ago from Cuba's José R. Capablanca. Soon maneuvered out of position by Euwe, who attacked vigorously after a queen's gambit, Alekhine accepted his offer of a draw after 35 moves, rose from directly under Jacob Lyon's great canvas of The Riflemen of Capt. Jacob Pieterson Hooghkamer and Lieutenant Pieter van Rijn in the Military Casino (see cut), warmly congratulated his youthful successor. To the amateur winner went the championship, 15½-to-14½, and expense money; to Professional Alekhine, $6,800 plus a chance to challenge within six months...
Losing the match by the extremely close score of 873-868, the Crimson sharp-shooters bowed to the New Hampshire riflemen in Saturday's bout in the Memorial Hall range...
...this time he continued to turn out a great quantity of Missouri portraits, and a lengthy series of paintings of river boatmen, fishermen, frontier riflemen, fur traders, election day crowds, etc., etc. They were so highly admired by his contemporaries that many of them were engraved and published as prints by the famed Paris house of Goupil et Cie. Goupil et Cie were working on a lithograph of Bingham's most important canvas, The Verdict of the People, during the Siege of Paris in 1871 when a Prussian shell wrecked the entire establishment. The original painting...
Harvard's riflemen will start their second match of the season tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in the basement of Memorial Hall, while their opponents will be shooting at similar targets some 300 miles away in another subterranean range at Princeton. The two teams will then exchange letters giving the scores for the contest, and the results of the contest will announced some time in the latter part of the week...
Meanwhile muffled Bedouin riflemen, deserting the Imam's army, broke into the bazaars of Hodeida and looted lustily. About 300 foreigners were in the city, mostly British Indians. Before the Saudite troops entered, the greater portion had fled to the nearby island of Kamaran. With the victorious troops in Hodeida, the Emir Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son and Foreign Minister, assured the world that sacking was over and the city quite safe for foreigners. His potent father, he said, had already picked him as the next King of Yemen. Then the Saudite horsemen swept inland toward...