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...became a jockey soon afterward, rode on the Frying Pan circuit (half-mile tracks), got $5 a ride (when his employers paid off). In the flourishing Nineties, Jim Fitzsimmons became a pee-wee trainer. His big chance came in 1908 when betting was outlawed in New York, the topnotch U. S. trainers flocked to England, and the second-raters got a crack at the juicy training jobs at home...
...represented in the duelling fiesta, will Navy in the favorite's role ahead of defending champion N. Y. U., Rene Peroy's well-balanced Crimson nine man squad, and the Army swordsmen. The tournament promises to be packed with thrills with three now champions to be crowned and four topnotch universities battling it out for team honors. The absence through graduation of most of last year's men virtually throws the two-day affair into three wide-open races...
...called either public-spirited or publicity-spirited, depending on one's views, "Athleticism," he says, "attracts boys and girls to college who do not want and cannot use a college education." And although there are rather few institutions which make a practice of going out and hiring a topnotch feminine field hockey aggregation, there is, nevertheless, a lot of truth in this new attack on athletic over-emphasis. Let us use two colleges as examples, both of them institutions which are not mentioned by Mr. Hutchins...
...exciting surroundings will go to make up a satisfactory melodrama. There is nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...
...outlook against Cornell, all-American end Brud Holland et al, is rather glum. It is glum enough to realize that they soundly whipped a really topnotch Colgate team, glummer still when you realize that Cornell will outweigh Harvard 21 pounds to a man in the backfield. Still, Harvard is a better underdog than top-dog; that has been proved often...