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Causing a decided upset in preface dope, the Junior A crew, stroked by O. A. Pendar '27, came through with a brilliant spurt in the last piece of the championship class race yesterday afternoon to win from the Senior crew by 4 feet...
...General Council acted, forced the surrender of Dr. Axham's license, ostracized him. He could not practice at all, although he could and did continue to act as anesthetist for Osteopath Barker, who through the years acquired more and more fame, until his knighting. That event gave a spurt to the propaganda of laymen for the restoration of Dr. Axham's dignities. The press assumed interest. Parliament heard of the case. Yet the General Council remained obdurate...
...toss, they drew three-quarters of a length ahead with a short, strong stroke, beating 36 to the minute against the 34 of the Cantab boat. Here was work for J. A. Brown. His beautiful steering helped bring Cambridge, rowing smoothly, almost abreast. The Oxford-heavies tried a spurt. At the mile the bows were dead even. Without hitting it up, the smooth-stroking Cantabs drew ahead, pricking Oxford to a fresh spurt that shot her under Hammersmith Bridge, leading by a third of a length. Cambridge stuck to her steady stroke of 28 and all was even again...
...loss of but one out of nine meets, and ten out of 45 matches. Last year's University record was still more impressive than that of the previous year. The racquet wielders, again under the leadership of Captain W. P. Dixon '25, began its second championship season with a spurt which carried them through their schedule without the loss of a single meet, and which netted them the state and national championship. This year, the team lost but three of 45 matches, and but one in the national championship tourney. Captain Dixon showed his ability as a leader by capturing...
...first lap to make up the sixty yards conceded to Watters of the University. Watters has not shown his best since last spring, and was hampered by injuries throughout the cross-country season. Laness continued to draw up on Watters during the next five laps, and put on a spurt on the last round, almost passing the Crimson runner, but the lead proved too great to overcome...