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Even before President Cord's sprint became noticeable, Auburn stock on the New York Stock Exchange had begun to move. Bears short of it became uneasy when from a low of $88½ in December and $60⅜ in November it rose to $100, bounded on through $125, neared $150 in a mad display last week. In the commission houses there was talk of a "technical corner." Speculators pointed to the fact that Auburn has only 187,533 shares outstanding, that probably 90,000 are held by Cord Corp. If a strong bull pool cracked the whip, Auburn bears...
...late Albert Champion, A. C. Spark Plug man; Howard ("Poke") Freeman, cartoonist on the Newark Evening News; Worthington Longfellow Mitten, Davenport, Iowa, builder of bicycles. And many men still famed above everything else for their cycling days have done well in quieter trades. Frank Kramer, 18 times U. S. sprint champion, is police commissioner of East Orange, N. J. Maurice Brocco, for whom only two years ago the crowds were howling b-b-r-r-R-R-O-C-C-O. runs a sporting goods store in Paris. Oscar Egg makes bicycles there...
...march that won Maulbetsch a place on Walter Camp's all-America team. Maulbetsch was one of two backs that Michigan has had within the last 25 years who was a consistent ball carrier; the other was Jimmy Craig, brother of Ralph Craig, double winner of the Olympic sprint events. Jimmy had almost as much speed as Ralph and he was a most elusive gent when he found himself in a broken field...
...Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up: the $70,000 Arlington Classic at Arlington Park, beating Gallant Knight by a neck after sneaking past Maya on the rail for a fine sprint down the stretch. Gallant Fox has now won $275,000-$38,639 less than the record of Zev, greatest U. S. money-winning horse...
...Navy crew, beating off a hard but belated sprint by California in the last quarter-mile: a triangular race on Lake Carnegie, with Princeton three lengths in the wash...