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William Harnden Foster, editor of National Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing, claims credit for inventing skeet, in 1925. But as early as 1910 the late C. E. Davies and other Ballard Vale, Mass, gunners, Editor Foster among them, had hit on its basic idea. Ordinary trapshooting, with the gunner firing always from the same position, seemed too static to them. They wanted something more like real hunting. On the grounds of the Glen Rock Kennels they traced a great circle, set up a trap outside it, then moved around the circle potting the flying targets from all angles...
...Harvard crew of 1883 which beat Vale three years in a row, last week clambered into a shell and rowed two miles up the Charles River at Harvard's commencement. Of the nine, all 70 or over but still spry, four were in Who's Who. They were Stroke Joseph Lee. now a social worker. Russell Sturgis Codman, hotelman and Harvard trustee, Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore doctor, Charles Pelham Curtis, Winchester, Mass., lawyer. The other five, prosperous respectable citizens who probably deserve to be in Who's Who also, were William Hussey Page, Manhattan lawyer and onetime...
...company, Gogarty always fascinates his friends. When he talks, piling imagination with breath-taking invention, they listen and remember. One of his companions describes him as "overflowing with wit, gaiety, laughter, and Aristophanic joy." It was in Gogarty's garden that George Moore conceived the idea for "Ave, Salve, Vale." An apple tree in Gogarty's garden was the inspiration for Moore's "Tree of Vision." Gogarty himself is the Buck Mulligan in Joyce's "Ulysses...
...Wales Lanrwst had to cancel their Welsh Combination game with Lanfairfechan, most of their players being ill with influenza. In the Vale of Conway League Pentregwyddel had to cancel their game with Colwyn Bay Comrades for the same reason, and Mochdre had to cancel their game with Dolwyddelen. Colwyn Bay also had several of their team ill with influenza...
...this quietude and grandeur ever and again he thinks of his followers in Cambridge drinking iced tea in the Houses and preparing in a desultory way for Finals. For them now he has a passing word of advice. It is far better to get away from the vale of tears for a period of three days on end, quite utterly away, with whatever sources of diversion is denied, than to moulder in the cool tombs of Widener or Sever for a few hours each day. For in the latter case the evenings are always spent at Wellesley...