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...than the Tribune and Daily News employ together (3,200 apiece). He was the Colonel's World War I adjutant, named a son Robert McCormick Schmon, is probably closest to the boss of all executives (none of them calls him "Mac," and few presume to call him "Bert...
Coaches Jaakko Mikkola and Bert Haines, who have worked with Crimson track and crew men respectively for 26 and 27 years, have been voted major H's, the Athletic Association announced Tuesday...
...came in without turning-Batsman Bert Haas could almost count the stitches -but took a wicked dip just before he swung. Haas barely ticked the ball, which dribbled a few feet. It was an easy put-out at first. Roared Haas: "That was that sweat ball!" The sweat ball (which is a spit ball parading as an accident of nature) is illegal. But the umpire shook his head and the game went on. Schoolboy Rowe of the Philadelphia Phillies grinned; whatever it was, that pitch had gotten him out of many a tight spot...
...cavalry and firehorse-piloting period is over, but Bert Haines' sculling genius is very much a thing of the present. In addition to making a single fly as though possessed, he can get in the tank and row any first-boat man into collapse. His aim, though, is not so much to demonstrate, or "teach"-- Bert feels it is a matter of bringing out what a good man has through a "midwife" approach to coaching. This requires not scorn, or a drive-drive-drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide...
...adapted to leaning into stiff breezes with overtones of cold spray to catch the fleeting error that can throw a whole crew off. When approached about the present write-up, he looked hesitant and said dubiously, "You know, I don't want there to be too much of this 'Bert Haines' business." Every man is, of course, entitled to his opinion about this...