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...three major sportsmen who now alone speak for the College in the Committee for the Regulation of Athletic Sports are symbols of a past era in Harvard Athletics. At every opportunity Mr. Bingham reiterates his intention to discourage big-time sports in favor of intramurals, and to catch up to Yale's record of 55 per cent of the students on house teams. When this hope becomes a reality, it will be clearly necessary to give average students a vote in the supreme court. It may prove an important help to the evolution of the Student Council's recommendations...
Touched by that story were the sportsmen gathered at Grand Junction last week for the 42nd annual running of the National Field Trials. But in a long fortnight of dog-running, it was the only reminder they had of heroic Brookfield Dumb-Bell. Thirty-nine of the nation's best bird dogs, one of the biggest entry lists in years, performed in colorless fashion. Experts blamed the poor showing partly on the weather-late winter snow and sleet alternating with blustery spring winds-but also on the seldom-mentioned fact that the Ames Plantation is no longer precisely overrun...
...hitherto spent their energies fighting each other agreed to get together and fight for wildlife. Sinking their crotchets in a temporary General Wildlife Federation, they chose "Ding" for temporary president. Then they went home to enlist women's clubs, garden clubs, camera clubs, Audubon societies and sportsmen's associations in State Federations. To the second North American conference in St. Louis last week went 800 representatives of 46 State Federations with some 3,000,000 members. Already they had secured enough State conservation legislation to make Founder Darling feel that his efforts had been worth while. Egged...
Thus was launched the first annual Duck Hunters' Dinner of the American Wildlife Institute. Founded by 33 sportsmen in 1935 to help Government and private conservation agencies preserve and restore the nation's wildlife, the Institute has had backing from arms, sporting goods, automobile and other manufacturers interested in preserving the $500,000,000 business of U. S. hunting & fishing. Its chief accomplishment to date, financed by a $150,000 Remington Arms donation, has been initiation of game breeding research projects in nine agricultural colleges...
...When Sportsmen Harkness & Griswold reached China early last year, the Government refused them permission to enter the giant panda's wild, bandit-infested habitat. Alone, Harkness boarded a Shanghai train at Nanking, vanished. Fortnight later, a U. S. Marshal found him in a Shanghai hotel, registered under an assumed name...