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Reader Knowlton may now hear of a fourth definition of barratry, given in the Webster International and Oxford dictionaries: The "practice of exciting and encouraging or maintaining lawsuits or quarrels; persistent excitement of litigation...
Chris G. Petrow, Webster City, Iowa--Lincoln High School, Webster City...
...captains), Alan Pennington (Oxford) and Godfrey Brown (Cambridge), for double wins, the Britishers had unbeatable talent on the track except in the hurdles. In the field they boasted a Turk who could shot-put 49 ft., a high-jumper who could clear 6 ft. 3 in., and Frederick Richard Webster, first Briton ever to pole-vault 13 ft., who got-his vaulting tips by corresponding with U. S. experts. At Cambridge, Mass, last fortnight Oxford-Cambridge swept the flat races as anticipated, added a victory in the shot put to beat Harvard-Yale, 7 first places...
...Princeton last week Oxford-Cambridge showed supremacy in the field as well. In the high jump and shot put Cambridge's Robert Kirk Inches Kennedy and Ali Irfan of Istanbul set new meet records. And Cambridge's Webster topped Princeton's Standish Medina, suffering from a pulled leg muscle, with a 13-ft. pole-vault. Though President Pennington took the 100 and 220-yd. sprints handily and President Brown breezed to victory in the quarter mile, these three victories in the field > proved invaluable when Princeton-Cornell proceeded to win both the mile and two-mile runs...
...WEBSTER R. VAUGHAN...