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...Saints have already defeated the St. Nicholas A. C. sextet 1 to 0 and shut out Brown 3 to 0, while the Harvard hockey players slumped badly in their last game with Princeton last Saturday after defeated two crack Canadian teams from Queens and McGill Universities. The Middle West sextet has brought along only three spares, so the Crimson policy will probably be to tire out the opponents with one fresh line after another...
...while Kirkwood was parking the car, had it jammed against a post. Next day, his broken wrist in a cast, Horton Smith saw Burke go two extra holes to beat Tomekichi Miyamoto, Japanese champion in 1929 and 1930, who had come over for the winter season with two other crack Japanese pros, Rakuzo Asami and Kokichi Yasuda...
Injured last week was Jerry Dalrymple, crack right end and captain of the brilliant Tulane (New Orleans) team. Two days after the Washington State game, he discovered he had a contusion of the kidney...
...pathetic memento was left by Pilot Cox. Earlier in the week he had borrowed $20 from the Camden passenger terminal. He left a note in the cashdrawer: "I 0 U $20. If I crack up, present this to my wife for collection." Just before taking off from Newark on his last flight he sent a message over the company's teletype: "I have the $20. Have a bodyguard meet my plane...
...almost two years the great railroads of the land have held to their 1929 pledge to President Hoover not to cut wages during Depression.* Last week occurred the first major crack in their solid front. New York Central admitted that it was dickering with its 115,000 employes (December 1929: 170,061) to accept voluntarily a 10% pay reduction for one year. Reason: the Interstate Commerce Commission's refusal to grant the carriers a flat 15% freight rate increase...