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...worked as a printer on a Buenos Aires newspaper, left town when he fell in love with his best friend's wife. He worked in the forests as a woodcutter among the Indians, liked it so much he decided to stay. He learned jaguar-hunting from an Indian spearman, turned hunter himself. He has bayonetted many a "tiger" after cornering it with his dogs. He told Duguid a grim story: Siemel's brother, who lived with his wife and little son in Cuyaba, Brazil, had a German enemy. The German hired a gunman to shoot Siemel...
Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...
Geniuses. Among England's legions of unemployed there are indubitably many potential geniuses. Everyone is a genius at something; at something else, an idiot.?Prof. C. Spearman, London...
HARVARD. MAINE. Lincoln, 3b. c.f., Morton Emmons, 2b. 2b., A. Johnson Conlon, s.s. 3b., Sargent Perkins, c.f. s.s., Waterman Frothingham, l.f. l.f., T. Johnson Hallowell, r.f. r.f., Rusk Bigelow, 1b. 1b., Walker Lancaster, Murphy, c. c., Spearman Goode, Felton, p. p., Watson, Jouette...