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...strange U. S. city does not have to be told whether he is watching a professional or collegiate hockey game. At a glance he can tell by any of three points: 1) Professionals, most of them Canadians, are ever so much faster and more skillful skaters. 2) Collegians skate with long swinging strides, handling the puck down a 7-ft. alley, whereas professionals skate foot-over-foot as if they were running. 3) Most collegians wield the stick righthanded, Canadians (hence, professionals) lefthanded...
...Dunster House wags who roller skate from Dunster House to the Eliot House Cafeteria, every night...
...most important change in the rules of the National Hockey League which opened its season last week is a new preamble specifying that players shall wear skates. There was no widespread doubt about skates being customary, but a disturbing incident occurred about eight years ago in a game at Iroquois Falls, Ontario. A goalie was injured. Having no regular substitute his team sent in a friend who could play lacrosse but could not skate. The friend wore rubber overshoes. The opposing team protested indignantly but could point to no rule prescribing skates...
...physics at Stuttgart and Zurich before joining the faculty of the University of Berlin in 1927. This year he is at Oxford, may stay there permanently because, according to friends, he dislikes the way things are going in the Fatherland. When he is not working he likes to ski, skate, swim, climb mountains...
...watch Johnny, 17 mos. old. roller-skating through the corridors of Manhattan's Babies Hospital, dressed only in a diaper and shoes, is that institution's favorite daily diversion. Johnny has been roller-skating since last April, which was before his first birthday. He now boldly coasts down inclines, steers around corners. Skating is not Johnny's sole athletic accomplishment. At seven and one-half months he began to practice swimming. Now he can dive and swim under water. Other abilities: climbing up a steeply inclined plank, climbing from a 5-ft. pedestal. Johnny's trainer...