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...night, January 10, for a final victory of 31 to 28. From a straggling start, the Crimson basketmen had the situation well in hand at the beginning of the second period, but the appearance of the second-string men on the floor spurred the players from Burlington to a spurt which threatened the Harvard ascendency...
Staging a scoring spurt at the start of the second period that netted four goals in four minutes Harvard's hockey team completely put the University of Toronto sextet to rout at the Garden last night winning by a score...
...physiological age equivalent to a nine-year-old child. "The elephant, in spite of its huge bulk, seems to pass through the successive phases of development to adulthood at approximately the same chronological rate as man." Anthropoids and Man keep time for six years. Then suddenly the anthropoids spurt. A seven-year ape equals a 12½-year boy; an eight-year ape a 20-year boy.- Dr.Thomas Wingate Todd, Cleveland...
...minute shared that uniform wish-to see him hit the ball. To see him win the fourth and final event of his tremendous campaign to take all four major championships of the world in one year-or to be on hand if some freak of luck, or the sudden spurt of an inferior opponent put him out-these were minor considerations. They did not expect to see him play his best golf, for great golf develops only under pressure, and there is no amateur in the world who stands a chance with Jones six days in seven...
...Bright on successive days, Ellsworth Vines put out Frank Shields, twelfth ranking U. S. player and Richard Norris Williams II, twice (1914, 1916) national champion. He beat Shields with a spurt of brilliance after a slow start. In the first set he seemed indifferent. After a point had been settled he would shamble back to serve or receive with an absent expression, bored, disinterested. Once in difficulties, he showed his best game. Against Williams he lost the second set but then roused, ran away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic...