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...drew away to an early lead during the opening minutes of the game. The two teams passed the ball among themselves, and little shooting was done, so the game was sluggish at the start. After the Crimson combination had scored nine points to the opponents' five, Tech made a spurt and drew up even before the first time out was called...
...hours. They had played all the tunes they knew; the pianos were going flat; only 500 people remained in the hall; still they played on. But a doctor had just taken Professor Camillo's temperature, felt his pulse and counseled him to stop. "Maryland" was his last spurt, the gesture of a man who had been beaten by age rather than by any such putty-faced whippersnapper as his opponent. His hands slipped from the keyboard; stiffly he rose to hear Pianist Burt, winner of the championship and a purse of $2000, crash into his finale, "America...
Defeated twice but in a frame of mind that augurs ill for the Crimson, the Yale eleven will enter today's game a decided favorite. The over confidence that wracked the Blue's chances against Princeton has been replaced by a spurt of grim determination, and Captain Joss's men will go into the Stadium today with the odds at least two-to-one in their favor...
When dirty weather gathers in this book, as it does continually, the seas thunder, spurt, hurl, burst, cascade, career and cannonade. Poops lurch, hatches groan, bulwarks drown, spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia...
...pound race, the University Freshmen got off to a perfect start and took the lead at once over the Yale boat. Rowing a long, deep stroke, the University continued to forge ahead in spite of the quicker beat of Yale. At the finish a gallant spurt sent the University oarsmen a full two lengths in advance of their opponents. The time for the mile course was 5m. 43s. The race was long delayed, owing to a broken rigger on the Yale shell...