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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andover tops the list of contesting schools, with 48 entries, while its traditional rival, Exeter, is entering 39 men. Other schools that loom large as interscholastic contenders are Worcester Academy, with 23 entries, Medford High School, with 22, and LaSalle Academy, from Providence, which is bringing a squad of 15 men to the meet...
Accordingly, a lively platinum boom has set in at Johannesburg, South Africa, which in spirit and extent threatens to rival the Transvaal gold boom of the 90's. The Afrikanders have gone platinum mad. Scores of new platinum companies have been organized, some merely on the basis of leasing land in the "platinum district," their shares have been listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and have shot up to 10 or 15 times their original price in a few weeks...
Fresh from a 70-55 victory over Andover, the Freshman track team will today try its luck against Exeter. Exeter is reputed to be better than its great rival this season some ten or 15 points, which points to a neck and neck fight at Exeter this afternoon...
Toulmin had every advantage on his rival Presbrey, and would have won the game without the help of circuit clouts by Zarakov, Todd and Howard. He let down the visitors with a quartet of safe hits, several of them of the questionable kind, and with six strikeouts to his credit kept the Amherst batters swinging at everything. Seven errors behind Presbrey ruined his game for him. The University garnered only eight hits in all but they were bunched at the opportune moments...
...witness for the merger promoters, apparently aimed his telling testimony, order to prove that the merger would increase competition rather than monopolize, he pointed out that the new Nickel Plate will touch 28 cities of over 75,000 population, whose aggregate population is 17465,000. The similar figures for rival and competing systems are: New York Central, 30 such cities with 17,655,000 total population; B. & U., 1 cities with 17,266,000; and Pennsylvania, 35 cities with 19,876,000. The implication was that the Pennsylvania was already the largest and most favored system and therefore should...