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Heading the list of returning letter men are Captain Joseph F. Ferriter '34, a guard, and Richard C. Boys '35, lauky center, and William C. Crawford '35 and William Henderson '34 are forwards coming up from the Junior Varsity. Eugene W. Merry '34, is another veteran forward, Robert K. Morse '35, a center also, has come up from the Jayvees...
Taking the best three out of five sets, Horace B. Shepard '34, won the Lowell House tennis tournament from David C. Crawford '36. Shepard took the first two sets, 7-5 and 6-3, lost the next, 1-6, but came back to take the fourth...
...Facts were these: Shortly after Crawford was arrested, his lawyers went before the U. S. District Court of Boston's Judge James Arnold Lowell, cousin of Harvard's ex-president, and pleaded for a stay of the extradition order. Judge Lowell, an aging, flashily-dressed eccentric who was rebuked by the Supreme Court last May for telling a jury that a witness must have been lying because he nervously wiped his hands, granted their plea. His legal reasoning was that since Virginia does not permit Negroes to serve on juries, any conviction of George Crawford would be voided...
...Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Lowell's decision. It declared that the question whether Crawford would get a fair trial in Virginia was something which Virginia herself, and not a Federal court, had the power to decide, and that therefore Crawford should be extradited...
...case was appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court. Last week the Court refused to review it, thereby upholding the decision of the Circuit Court and, in effect, roundly snubbing Yankee Judge Lowell. George Crawford is expected to go on trial in Virginia next month...