. Outing. ns, Ames, Baird, or Harlan?Lamar, Morse, or Tibbott? Kafer orMcCormick ? It would be hard to convince an old-time Penn player that Adams as a cen-ter could not hold his own with the menof the present day, or that Thayer couldnot do the same in the back field; thatKnipe, Minds, McCracken, and Out-land could not still show the backssomething; that Gilbert on the end orWagenhurst would not give Scarlett much to do; or Overfield keep up his endwith Torrey at center, Smith with Hol-lenbeck in the back field, and Williamswith Stephenson at quarter. If space would permit, one might goon alm
. Outing. ns, Ames, Baird, or Harlan?Lamar, Morse, or Tibbott? Kafer orMcCormick ? It would be hard to convince an old-time Penn player that Adams as a cen-ter could not hold his own with the menof the present day, or that Thayer couldnot do the same in the back field; thatKnipe, Minds, McCracken, and Out-land could not still show the backssomething; that Gilbert on the end orWagenhurst would not give Scarlett much to do; or Overfield keep up his endwith Torrey at center, Smith with Hol-lenbeck in the back field, and Williamswith Stephenson at quarter. If space would permit, one might goon almost indefinitely recounting thegreat deeds of these players, past andpresent, for in that respect no sport quitecompares with that of the the technical rules may change,in the rugged, strenuous work of thefootball field one comes to admire thereal man stripped of conventionalities,right down to the real bone and sinew,the man who can sacrifice self for theteam, and never knows how to LATHAM IN THE ANTOINETTE MONOPLANE, WHICH MADE A NEW RECORD FOR HEIGHT AND FOR SPEED AND DISTANCE. THE MEN WHO FLEW AT RHEIMS ITS a far cry from the days of Icarusand even the tale of Darius Greenno longer falls with the same fore-boding force on the ears of men. Menhave flown—if not as birds, yet in amanner to convince skeptics that the conquest of the air has really France announced a Week ofAviation at Rheims from August 22dto 29th, there was much interest butlittle belief that any really importantresults would be accomplished. When THE MEN WHO FLEW AT RHEIMS H3 the week was over the world drew along breath and sat down to contemplatethe fact that practically every flyingrecord had been broken and broken de-cisively—speed, distance, altitude—newmarks had been set in all, and to crownthe weeks achievements the Interna-tional Cup for speed had been won byGlenn H. Curtiss, the only Americancompetitor at Rheims, thus insuring thatthe next contest will be held
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