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...Millrose games (see above), another record was broken. It was done, many believed, by virtue of a dissolute, cast-off track-shoe. Harold M. Osborne, famed Illinois jumper and Olympic Champion, carefully placed that old shoe beside the special runway which had been marked out for him at one side of the jumping posts. Many athletes believe that in a cast-off shoe, as in a saint's relic or the trophy of a holy war, lodges some curious potency ; and who shall say that Osborne's was not charmed? For, after acutely regarding this raffish talisman, Osborne measured...
Yesterday afternoon furnished much humor. Several alleged that the punt, which seats ten men on a side and has a runway down its length, resembles nothing so much as an old Roman galley. What with a coach, a manager, and a moving picture photographer pacing between the oarsmen, all that would have been needed to complete the picture of a classic galley would have been to chain the men to their seats and supply the coach with a whip...
...pole-vault was perhaps the most spectacular event of the evening. A special board runway was constructed, with a dirt catch for the pole, and a dirt landing pit. In view of the difficulties attendant on staging this event indoors, the hazy atmosphere and the lack of a proper background against which to view the bar, topping the 12-foot mark reached by Harwood and Gardner was a very creditable performance. There was little to choose between the style of the two men as they cleared the bar. On the toss to settle the tie, Gardner won and was awarded...
...running at the Hollis, offers Alexandra Carlisle and Einar Linden an excellent opportunity to display a great deal of spontaneous art. Miss Carlisle is worth going to, merely to hear her voice, which is a great relief from the variety of speaking that greets the "tired student" from the runway. Mr. Linden has a difficult part, and makes the fullest possible use of his opportunities. From the very start he captures the sympathy of the audience by his skillful representation of temperament. To do this, he exhibits a remarkable variety of truly cultivated parlor tricks. Even in the last...
...steel latticework tower supporting wireless antenna is located on each end of the flat runway on the roof of the building. The new aerial is as large, if not larger, than any used in the United States; it is made up of five wires stretching from the 100-foot standards above the Laboratory across Langdell Hall to Walter Hastings Hall, a distance of over 600 feet. A message has been received from Berlin, a distance of 3,000 miles, and several times stations on the Pacific Coast have been heard distinctly...