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...warm-up for six months of maneuvers that will put up to 472,000 troops into battle at one time (during September in Louisiana), the Second Army's first fight was no more than a quiz; the final examinations will come later. Army officers were only incidentally interested in the fact that the numerically weaker Red Army (30th Division) backed up before the Blues. They were vitally interested in what signs the Second Army's troops showed of acquiring the sheen and polish of first-class fighting...
Following Saturday's decisive victory, the Varsity was rewarded yesterday by a warm-up in the new shell they will race at New London. This makes everyone happy for the Jayvees get the Varsity shell and so on down the line, each eight getting a better boat than the one they were rowing in previously...
Mikkola regards the match as a warm-up session and will have no scruples about leaving proven men on the side-lines to nurse injuries or simply make way for ambitious novices. Larry Corbett is in the former category with a sprained back and Dave Ives and Doug Pirnie will restrict their activities to the dashes. Sophomore Bill Maygar, who reached 21 feet 9 inches broad jumping in prep school, will thereby be given his first whack at outside collegiate competition...
Lacrosse will get off to a start next week with three warm-up games on the docket for the team's annual spring trip toward the South. If the team stands up as well as last year's, the University of Pennsylvania will be the first victim at Philadelphia on Wednesday. On the following day, the squad will move down to take on Maryland at College Park, and a game with Navy will wind up the pre-season schedule on Saturday...
After a preliminary warm-up with St. John's College in Brooklyn yesterday the Crimson fencers will tackle Army tonight at West Point in the first major contest of the year...