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...Southwest, Texas Christian boasts: 1) League leadership; 2) a forward named Richard Allison, 6 ft. 5 in., 200 lb., who has scored 86 points this season. Rocky Mountain. Even in this single league basketball styles vary. The western division (Utah and Montana) plays a slambang, helter-skelter game resulting in high scores. The eastern (Colorado, Wyoming) tends toward conservatism and tight defense. W'yoming leads the league undefeated. Wyoming's ace is a tall, blond, left-handed forward named Les Witte, brother of Coach Willard ("Dutch") Witte. In a double-header last week against Colorado College he scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball: Midseason | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...both the foils and dueling swords matches, is considered the most formidable fencer on the team. In 1922 he was runner-up, and in 1923 he was the winner of the Junior National Championship, in which all of the best amateur fencers compete. "His fencing is of the 'slambang', fighting type" was the verdict of a member of the Crimson team who has fenced with him. Jules de Vigno is a well-known French amateur and Warren Dow, a former Columbia fencer, is a member of the Fencers' Club Epeo team, which lately won the club championship in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FENCERS MEET STRONG CLUB TEAM FROM NEW YORK CITY | 3/15/1924 | See Source »

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