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...Sportsman Harkness' wife, a painter, had stayed home in Manhattan when he went to China. When she heard of his death, she at once resolved to attempt what he had tried and failed. With a young Chinese guide, she left Shanghai last September, went 1,500 miles up the Yangtze River into Szechwan Province...
...action may be experimented with, in the hope that a beginning can be made toward the salvation of athletic idealism from the serious threats which menace it today. Measures pertaining to standard rules of eligibility, registration of athletes and investigation of their financial record are steps which every true sportsman enthusiastically recommends. Whether or not the Ivy League will be able to bring about such measures is only a matter of conjecture, and yet it might very well set an invaluable precedent for others to follow if these ultimate objectives can be realized. Surely, it is worth the experiment...
...Branch Rickey has been grooming a young assistant named William O. DeWitt, whom he sent through law school. In the Barnes syndicate, William O. DeWitt will function as the Browns' general manager. Placing a protégé with the Browns and getting night-game equipment installed at Sportsman's Park were by no means all Branch Rickey got out of the Browns-to-Barnes deal. For promoting it, his commission was estimated...
...Sportsman son of a railroading father, Averell Harriman noted that 8,000 U. S. skiers went to Austria alone last year. He noted the Banff and Lake Louise developments of Canadian Pacific. So he invited Count Felix Schaffgotsch, a fellow sportsman from Austria, to roam the West until he found-on the U. P.-a likely spot for skiing...
...first books on horses is displayed, printed in 1595. By its title it claims to instruct in how to "choose, ride, train, and diet both hunting and running horses." A book on hunting and riding. "The Sportsman at Home and Abroad," has on its titlepage an original handcolored drawing by Henry Alken, famous English illustrator of horses and hunting scenes...