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Coach Edward C. Roundy of Colby is bringing down a team of veterans, but one that has played only one previous game. That was against Maine ten days ago and Harvard's opponents today batted out a 4 to 2 triumph. Bob Brown, Colby's pitching ace, is down to get the call today as Page's opponent. Klusick and Lovett, both stars of last year, are the leading sruggers for the visitors. HARVARD COLBY Mays, 2b, c.f., Roberts Nugent, s.s. r.f., Karkos McGrath, c.f. l.f., Lovett Wood, 1b, s.s., Klusick Ticknor, l.f, 1b., Donovan Des Roches, 3b, 2b., Ferguson...
Jimmy Wilson (Cards) has a good job in a silk mill in Philadelphia. Bob Shawkey (manager, Yanks) and Herb Pennock (Yanks) would rather go after moose than anything else. Goose Goslin (Senators) farms 500 acres in New Jersey. In North Carolina Jakie May (Reds) hunts possums and coons with 20 hound dogs. Waite Hoyt (Yanks) and Mickey Cochrane (Athletics) work in vaudeville. Bill Terry (Giants) who once had a filling station, sells oil in Memphis and sings in a choir. Ray Kremer (Pirates) works in the California oil fields. Dazzy Vance (Robins) used to sell real estate, made money during...
...Uncle Bob," explains a younger member of the family, "always painted best after his divorces...
...Sheriff Bob went back to painting. Followed a second marriage to the tempestuous primadonna Lina Cavalieri. Another brother, John Armstrong Chanler, had attracted no little attention by running amuck, shooting his butler, and effecting a spectacular escape from the Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane (Manhattan). He fled to Virginia, was judged legally sane, changed his name to "Chaloner" and set a brass plate in his dining room floor "To the Memory of a Faithful Servitor." No sooner did the news of Artist Bob's marriage to the spectacular Cavalieri reach Virginia than Brother John sent his most famous telegram...
Came another divorce. La Cavalieri married Tenor Lucien Muratore. Artist Bob erupted in a flood of murals. He designed stained glass windows, painted screens, covered the walls of tycoons' swimming pools and conservatories with a profusion of birds and beasts in brilliant dynamic color, all the while eating, drinking, living with gargantuan gusto. No one house was big enough for this titan. He bought three brownstone houses on East 19th Street, Manhattan, knocked them together and covered every inch of wall space with his own paintings. There are palm trees and parrots in the pantry, a dado of chimpanzees climbs...