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...line. The second started with a march from midfield by crack Halfback '"Garry" Le Van and Fullback "Pepper" Constable, and ended with a lateral pass to Halfback Spoffard from the 6-yd. line. Five plays carried the ball 54 yd. for Le Van to score the third. A whippet-tank march from the 35-yd. line made the fourth...
...seventh point. In the next period Everhardus raced around end to tie the score, then booted the goal. Following an unimpressive 6-to-0 performance fortnight ago against Washington & Lee, Princeton-only Humpty of the six not yet even scored on-snapped back last week into its earlier whippet-tank style. Brown was butterfingered, Princeton on its toes, taking advantage of three fumbles and one blocked kick to pile up four touchdowns and driving 63 yd. without the help of breaks for another. As usual, one touchdown and a heavy share of the kicking, passing and line-plunging were credited...
Princeton looked like a squadron of swift whippet-tanks as it rolled through Amherst for six touchdowns...
...backed by China's Great Wall, Shanhaikwan is a 20th Century Thermopylae, the gateway defending China proper from Manchurian invaders. Last week several thousand Chinese soldiers, armed chiefly with old-style rifles, were ordered to defend Shanhaikwan against the simultaneous assaults of Japanese artillery (19 pieces), Japanese whippet tanks, Japanese machine gun crews, Japanese bombing planes (seven) and Japanese destroyers (two) which fired in high, wide, erratic fashion from their anchorage six miles away in the Gulf of Liaotung opposite famed Port Arthur. Considered purely as butchery, the three-day battle was a little classic...
George West's brindle and white greyhound, Gamecock Duke of Wales, who beat a beagle, a Russian wolfhound and a whippet in the final judging of his group...