Word: sportsmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many prominent sportsmen have been invited. The principal guest will be John L. Sullivan. Among the others who will be present are: P. D. Haughton '99, Francis Ouimet, George Knight, John Morrill, A. Geer, "Jimmie" Walsh, and "Honey" Melody...
...innocent of any real professionalism in spirit, and only ignorance of a technicality led them to the disqualifying act. It is no exaggeration to say that all Harvard men feel the deepest regret at the incident. Whether the University teams win or lose, it is the desire of all sportsmen that they meet opponents who have not lost a part of their strength,--especially through such a stroke of chance as this...
...shield. The two teams will line-up during the day o Yale Field, both confident of success, both full of determination, anticipation, and other things; and the battle that will be waged will be really royal. Special bulletins at the Union, Hemenway Gymnasium, and various resorts of sports and sportsmen in Cambridge. Boston and vicinity will flash the news of the game, play by play, to the eager thousands who for some reasons or others can't attend the game in person. Anyway, all seats were sold three weeks...
...Shields, author, hunter, explorer, and president of the League of American Sportsmen, gave an illustrated lecture last evening in the Union on "Snow Slides in the Canadian Rockies." The views thrown on the screen were unusually excellent, especially those of the snow-capped peaks and glaciers of British Columbia. The illustrations of moose, elk, and caribou in their native haunts added much to an interesting discussion of the present state of game preservation on the North American continent...
...Shields then showed several beautiful slides of the larger wild animals, many of which are being saved from extermination only by the laws recently passed at the instigation of the League of American Sportsmen. One picture, showing five miles of bleached buffalo bones, was unusually effective in illustrating the result of the wholesale slaughter indulged in by the skin-hunters in destroying the immense herds of the middle west. In fact the establishment of the Yellowstone National Park has been the sole means of protecting many of the western animals from complete extinction. At present there...