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Baseball Series Worlds Championship Result

Flapper — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:41:23 +0000

THE ETERNAL MUCKER The baseball series for the world’s championship between the winners in the National and American Leagues has ended in a fashion unexpected by dopesters, both professional and amateur. Most of the wise gentlemen who edit the sporting columns of newspapers had predicted a victory for the New York Yankees. The triumph, howe... continued

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Women’s Golf Championship

Flapper — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:14:37 +0000

YOUTH has been served in the women’s amateur National golf championship as well as in the men’s, for the victory in this year’s tournament has gone to Miss Glenna Collett, of Providence, Rhode Island. In the finals she defeated Mrs. William Gavin, of England, by five up and four to play. Four former American title-holders fell by ... continued

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New University Athletic Code

Flapper — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:59:15 +0000

YALE, Princeton, and Harvard have formulated an athletic agreement which is admirable. Of course this agreement does not indicate any radical departure from present practices, as some commentators would have it, but is very largely merely a codification of the public opinion of these three universities. It puts in explicit terms ideals which have... continued

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Brothers in Football

Flapper — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:07:09 +0000

The data here come only from the memories of a few men. If the records of brothers playing football were complete there would still be only a small percentage of the number of boys playing football who have brothers not playing at all.

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Learning to Ski the Scandinavian Way – Part 2

Flapper — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:19:11 +0000

In skiing, as in most other sports, the right way is the easy and simple way. In the game of golf the unconscious, easy natural swing of the caddy boy is the despair of more than one perspiring, hardworking golfer. So, in skiing, the tendency of most beginners is toward work -instead of ease.

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Learning to Ski the Scandinavian Way – Part 1

Flapper — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:13:17 +0000

Getting started right, and then following along with conscientious practise, says Elon Jessup, a veteran skier, who is responsible for these and other assurances that the sport is as safe and easy as it is pleasant, makes one reasonably proficient in shorter time than you would believe.

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Ice Yachts for Thrill Seekers – Part 2

Flapper — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:04:12 +0000

To-day ice-boating is more popular than ever in America, especially in the Middle West. The great event there is the meet of the Northwest Racing Association, which is composed of the principal clubs in Michi-gan, Illinois and Minnesota. The races are sailed each year on a different lake in each State for valuable and numerous prizes, and all kinds of rigs are tried out.

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Ice Yachts for Thrill Seekers – Part 1

Flapper — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:00:47 +0000

THRILLS, in variety and number not to be experienced anywhere else, can be found aboard an ice-yacht, with enough breeze to give about sixty miles an hour on spurts where the going is good.

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Indoor Polo Develops a Little Theatre

Flapper — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:52:06 +0000

IT IS AN intimate sort of thing, this indoor polo, that makes sport of the winter of our discontent, and gives a real "close-up" of the galloping game.

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Little Bill Johnston Stays an Amateur

Flapper — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:32:24 +0000

THE decision of William M. Johnston, international tennis star and Davis Cup defender, to remain an amateur in spite of the dazzling offer recently made to him by C. C. Pyle, the tennis impresario, to turn professional has about it something rather fine. William T. Tilden 2d, for six consecutive years National Champion, also characteristically has ... continued

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