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...Clifton H. Seaver of Springfield, Mass., wearing dirty white linen knickerbockers, a No. 13 on his sweater, to represent his age: a gold wrist watch, a vacation trip, a bicycle; for beating Sidney Diez of Baton Rouge, 7 games out of 10, in the final of the U. S. marbles championship, with 200,000 entrants: at Ocean City...
...turned westward to skirt a storm area. Squeezed down by the thick blanket of clouds above, the plane had torn an Soft. swath through the treetops, crashed to earth in a blaze of flame. One body, flung clear of the wreckage, was found with hands snapped off at the wrist...
...unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey of Detroit ran his Scott Special into the outer retaining wall, bounced over to the ground. A broken wrist was his only injury. That was the worst wreck of the race.* Fifty miles farther on two more cars skidded with only minor hurts and the rest of the field was warned to slow down while the wreckage was cleared away...
Near Miles City, Mont., Cowboy Mike Vial roped a steer, got his right wrist and left thumb caught in his lasso. Mike Vial got his thumb free, but the cavorting steer almost pulled his right hand off. To free himself, Mike Vial finished the job with his jackknife, rode to a hospital. Said he to attendants: "You can tell 'em the yearling cut my hand off, but it didn't get me out of the saddle...
Fresh from its Thursday's victory over Tufts 10-2, the Harvard varsity lacrosse team will meet Boston University on the Business School Field at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The team will be lacking the services of Stan Housen, attackman, who has injured his wrist, but is expected to triumph easily with the new set of plays they have been practising throughout the week...