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...Descendant of a William Glass whose family stayed behind on Tristan in 1817, when Britain, convinced that Bonapartists could not use the island as a base for rescuing Napoleon from St. Helena, withdrew the small wartime garrison. Later, three sailors who had served with Nelson joined the Glasses. To Tristan, too, came a few dark-skinned women from St. Helena. Today, the much intermarried but sturdy Tristanites have only seven surnames among them: Glass, Swain, Green, Reppeto, Lavarello, Rogers and Hagan...
...Boston Garden and head of a 14 man rink owners association, has put two decades of his time, energy, and finances into college and high-school hockey, basketball, and track at little direct recompense to himself. He's made it possible for men like Crimson ice veterans John Garrison, Stan Priddy, Goodie Harding, and Dartmouth's '47 front line trio, Ralph Warburton, Bruce Mather, and Bruce Cunliffe to play hockey after college without becoming professionals. Brown gave Garrison use of the Garden for a month before the coach's departure for Europe, that the A.H.A. might get in shape...
...Garrison, one-time Crimson skater and later Chase's assistant coach for the Varsity, who fired the shot heard round the rinks. When his A.H.A. sextet broke camp before Christmas, he stole Brundage's thunder and let his skaters know that they were to make up the American Olympic team. Brundage, his presidential pride raging, revoked his previous backing of the A.H.A., and used his prerogative to back the A.A.U. The initial skirmish of the Olympic civil...
Reached last night, sports columnists Jerry Nason of the Boston Globe and Bill Grimes of the Record stated that their pens are cocked for Garrison, Brown, and the A.H.A. As for Garrison, Nason dubbed him the victim of being "too darn nice." His move to ease the minds of his hard-working cohorts pitched him into the middle of a storm of roaring prides, according to the sports analyst...
Mainstays of the sextet, coached by John Garrison, one-time Crimson lineman, are Goalie Goodie Harding, who handled the Crimson nets in 1942, and the first line trio of Ralph Warburton, Bruce Mather, and Bruce Cunliffe, Dartmouth stars last year. First-string defense includes Stan Priddy, Yardling ice coach...