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...game hunting, in which Dr. Smith is a veteran, will be a very important part of the trip. Dr. Smith, whose experience as a sportsman has been extensive, has shot tigers in Korea, China, Java, and Persia, lions, elephants and buffalo in British East Africa and Somali-land, Kadiac bears in Alaska, cougars in Sonora, and nearly every other form of big game...
...about the creation of a Shakespeare National Memorial Theatre, but without startling success. In Mr. Archibald Henderson's "Table Talk of G. B. S." he reports what progress has already been made. "After many years of struggle," says Mr. Shaw, "we have had but one subscription. The solitary sportsman who gave it was a Hamburg gentleman. When Germany recovers from the war, we may get another move on. Nil desperandum...
...Jennings, a web-footed Canadian sportsman, decided that he would swim from Toronto to Manhattan by way of Lake Ontario, Erie Canal, Hudson River (400 miles) to celebrate the 110th anniversary of peace between the U. S. and Canada.* He expects to make several stopovers en route...
Since the announcement on Saturday of the death of Walter Camp, eminent sportsman and critic, tributes have been made from followers of sport throughout the country to the memory of the "Father of Football". Several members of the University who were connected with Mr. Camp, either through athletics or personal acquaintance, have expressed their appreciation of his character and the knowledge of the loss to the world of sport through his death...
...that committee, at which Mr. Camp died. "Mr. Camp's death", he said, when he returned to Cambridge yesterday, "was a great blow to the members of the Committee, of which he is the secretary. I have known him personally for 30 years and consider him the truest sportsman with whom I have ever been acquainted...