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...Orpheus fountain, water will spurt up as high as the knees of Orpheus. Dripping lines of water from the teeth of Cerberus will harmonize perpendicularly with the legs of the figure. Human torsos representing shades in Hades have been carved into parts of the angular unsymmetrical base. When the fountain works they, like the dead, will seem to float in the mists of another world...
Boston's Braves came from behind to beat Brooklyn, 9-6, with a three-run spurt in the ninth. The Dodgers collected 15 hits off Frankhouse and Mangum, while the Braves garnered 14 off Benge, Clark and Zachary, Benge and Berger made Boston homers, and Frey contributed one for the Dodgers...
...whether bankers are unwilling to loan money to businessmen or whether businessmen are unwilling to borrow from bankers. While this enigma was agitating the President (see col. 3), the cheerful news appeared that businessmen borrowed $114,000,000 more last week than they had the week before. This healthy spurt in commercial loans came on top of two months of slow expansion...
...entry might be justified. Cavalcade was loping along in third place when Discovery popped out in front of the field going into the stretch. The flash of the Vanderbilt silks seemed the signal for which the Kentucky Derby winner had been waiting. Cavalcade began his famed finishing spurt, took a few long strides. won as he pleased. Four lengths behind, hard pressed by Hadagal, Discovery took second place...
Last Saturday, however, did not provide a real test of the powers of the Harvard crews. There was no real opposition to overcome in any of the races except of the last spurt of the Union Boat club when the Jayvees were caught napping and were almost overtaken. The Varsity also was slow and Tech gained quite a lead at the start; but there was little difficulty in regaining the distance and crossing the line three and a half lengths ahead of the Engineers...