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Very different is the attitude at Samarkand toward the two greatest Khans.* The natives seem indifferent that the conquests of these two mighty princes made them dreaded and obeyed from Poland and Peking to India. For some reason the sack of Samarkand by Jenghiz Khan is treasured up in the native mind as an atrocity altogether reprehensible and comparatively recent (1221 A. D.). Strolling about with a native guide one hears said of whatever seems to be in disrepair that "it was all right until Jenghiz Khan came"-an explanation provocative of hilarity when offered by native children to account...
...pound class was won by E. A. Sack '28 of the University from J. J. Conroy. Conroy's swings were slow and Sack, using a short left jab was a clear winner...
...pound class: E. A. Sack, Jr. '28, vs J. J. Conroy...
...gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head in a tin pot, who took Swedenborgian Bibles to the Indians and in 46 years of roaming planted fruitful apple pips over 100,000 square miles of Middle America...
...pound class G. N. Burns '29, last year's 135-pound champion, will stage a bout with R. Thomas '30, and J. F. Colbert 1L will box E. A. Sack Jr. '28. J. Parkinson '29 will be opposed by H. J. Cohen 2L in the 160-pound division. Also in this class A. S. Barker 2G.B. will find himself in face with N. G. Lauris '30. In the 175-pound class R. E. Johnson '27 will box I. Markwett, '28. The heavy-weight title will be decided between E. H. Bradford Spec. and W. W. Lord...