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Funny material to be purveyed by the new syndicate had a heavy rural cast. As a possible substitute for the wise saws of the late Humorist Will Rogers, which McNaught Syndicate sold to 500 newspapers, Esquire Features offered a daily 150-word gag from Bob Burns, onetime vaudevillian whose radio hillbilly and cinema humor and music on a home-made "bazooka" were last week estimated in Variety to be earning him $400,000 a year."* Pictorial humor was to be furnished by Esquire Cartoonist Paul Webb's "Mountain Boys," a group of grotesque, bearded, barefooted figures. In the current...
...attack was more varied on the second march, with forward passes and spectacular end runs interspersed. Bob Stuart, Jayvee star of last year broke loose twice for runs of 15 yards and a pass Stuart to Staples was good for 15 more. After a first on the 15 yard line, it only required three rushes to cross the last white line. Stuart did the carrying...
...Though Bob Scott and George Phillips played capably in spots, the halfbacks also reflected the teams's general uncertainly in ball control and slowness in passing...
Because of slight injuries suffered during a week of strenuous scrimmages, Captain Jim Gaffney, Tom Bilodeau, Ken Booth, Don Daughters, George Hedblom, Ralph Pope, Bob Stuart, and Henry Russell will not take part in the game. This is merely a precautionary measure for most of them. Harlow said that if the game were with an outside team, Captain Gaffney would have started...
...Bob Stuart, George Ford, Ralph Pope, Arthur Oakes and Austin Harding will also be heard from before the final line-up has crystalized...