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DEAN PETRIE AND DR. ROSS TO HOLD MAMMOTH YO YO CONTEST, RUMOREDA rumor, just a rumor, but a very loud rumor, never-the-less, is in circulation, that Auburn will have a mammoth Yo-Yo contest to be sponsored by none other than George Petrie and Dean Battle Bennet Ross. Should plans for the Yo Yo contest materialize, and current rumor seems to strate that it will, Auburn will be placed on the highest pedestal in the Yo Yo world. Sponsored by two such illustrious men, such a contest could not help but be a great incentive to 1800 students to be bigger and better Yo-Yoists. In appreciation and knowing what such a tournament means to the Yo Yo future of Auburn, it is only befitting some mention should be made to the men who* have initiated this great movement.Dean George Petrie’s Yo Yo careeris verily one that reminds a person of the novels of Horatio Alger Jr. Starting his Yo Yo career at an age that to a man with less determination might have been well nigh impossible, the demon Yo Yoist has time and again demonstrated his superiority over younger but less capable Yo Yoist. Such a record should be the means of inspiration to many a hopeful Yo Yoist. Dean Petrie’s latest appearance was made on the steps of Broun Hall where he was seen going thru various tricks with the Yo Yo and handling it with a dexterity which was amazing.The Yo Yo career of Dean Battle Bennett Ross is one which resembles in many ways that of Dean Petrie. Confronted by the same difficulty, but striving with dogged determination against the heaviest odds, he battled his way up, step by step to the highest pinnacles of the Yo Yo world.Such a contest sponsored on one hand by the inestimable Dean Petrie, and on the other by the unconquerable Dean Ross, will surely merit the approval of all Yo-Yo-dom. To this end, every Auburn student should aid and abet these gentlemen in their great forward movement in Yo Yoing.
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Auburn Plainsman
Auburn, Alabama, US
Fri, Sep 20, 1929
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