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...this time bow its head to the charges of no less an authority than Amos Alonzo Stagg, director of athletics at the University of Chicago. There is little doubt, in the opinion of Mr. Stagg, that modern youth has been allowed to grow up softer than a punctured balloon tire. He would put the blame on such Innocent appearing things as late hours, rich foods, and indulgence in other luxuries of life which he believes have combined to enervate the present generation...
...constant ally. I was further informed that when Bela Kun was taken from jail it was the Countess who was his escort on that occasion. We have deported the Emma Goldmans and others whose sufferings make them prey to any people, whether communistic or nihilistic. And the en tire policy of the Government is the prohibition of just the type of undesirable as Countess Karolyi. ... I regret having to launch an attack upon a woman, but the issue is too important for squeamishness...
...Polo Grounds, Manhattan, long, lean George Mogridge uncoiled his snake-like left arm, sore these several weeks, and with it manipulated a ball so quaintly for seven innings that the Giants could make but two runs while the Senators made five. In the eighth inning, the arm began to tire and one "Firpo" Marberry relieved Mogridge, holding the Giants safely. Score: Washington 7, New York 4. The series was even, two games apiece...
With the score in games 3-1 against him, Briggs started a brilliant rally. By coming in to the net and angling for the corners, he succeeded in taking the next two games, but his efforts seemed to tire him, and he dropped the following two games. With the score 5-3, each player kept his own service, giving Harada...
...light harness racing. Their winnings aggregated nearly two million. He was a seasoned driver in the high-wheeled sulky days of Maude S. and Jay-Eye-See and created a sensation in 1892 by driving Nancy Hanks a mile in 2 :04 hitched to the new ball-bearing, pneumatic tire, featherweight sulky. In 1893, he drove three horses abreast, hitched to a high-wheeled skeleton wagon, a mile in 2:14. He held the world records for a trotted mile, two miles, three miles, other distances, and several pacing records...