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There is 18-year-old Frank Wykoff of Glendale High School in southern California, who defeated all comers in the 100-metre trials and four times equalled the Olympic record (10⅝ seconds). Charles Paddock, whose amateur status is being investigated, was too slow to qualify in the 100-metre dash, but he finished second to Charles Borah, also of California, in the 200-metre finals and made the team...
Nicholas. Despatches reported that the entire staff of the Leningrad newspaper Krasnya were clapped into jail last week as accomplices in the publication of an article wherein the present Soviet Ambassador to Poland, M. Wykoff, is specifically charged with having poured quantities of sulphuric acid over the corpses of Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family, after they had been shot dead at Ekatemburg, Russia, by Commandant Yurovski, former Tsarist officer...
...defended his action in publishing the story: "I am a good Communist. ... I wanted people to know that the Tsar is really dead, because of the spread of a false rumor that Lord Kitchener smuggled him to a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. ... I want everyone to know that Comrade Wykoff annihilated the last vestige of the Tsar with sulphuric acid...
...substitutes, Kedzie, '93, catcher; Spier, '95, left field; Ridgeway, '92, pitcher; Davis, '95, pitcher; and Wykoff, '92, pitcher, the first is the only one who has played to any extent on the team...
...Three-base hits, Tilden, Nichols, Allen, Smith. First base on balls, by Dillon, 7. First base on errors, Dartmouth, 5; Harvard, 10. Struck out, by Nichols, 9; Dillon, 2. Passed balls, Johnson 9; Artz, 1; Allen, 2. Wild pitches, Dillon, 2. Left on bases, Dartmouth, 5; Harvard, 6. Umpire, Wykoff, of Princeton. Time...