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Minus the services of high scoring captain John Rockwell, the Freshmen will tap off at the Huntington gym at 2:30 o'clock with a record of nine wins and two losses behind them...
...Manhattan's sleazy Stillman's Gym, where he trained, a place full of the smell of dust, sweat and arnica, characters paid 50? to get in and crowd around. When Rocky, the biggest crowd-puller outside of Joe Louis, swigged water between rounds and aimed a spout at a funnel in the corner of the ring, they didn't mind being splashed. When Rocky elbowed his way through the mob to work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked...
Last week, Rocky was deep in trouble for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer (TIME, Feb. 3). At Stillman's Gym, the boys were .whispering about him. Said one: "I say he shouldn't get it ... he done right dint he ... he nixes the guy, don't he?" Said another: "He goes ... I say he gets it." The man in the street didn't want to see Rocky "get it" too hard. Rocky had turned down the bribe, even if he hadn't reported it (though he had reportedly feigned a sore back...
With a big Alumni Day crowd looking on Columbia's wrestling team took six out of eight bouts to hand the Crimson grapplers a decisive 22 to 6 setback, their second straight, in the Lion's Auxiliary Gym yesterday afternoon. The boys in Blue took pins in the 128-pound and 175-pound classes to overwhelm the Varsity in a match which, according to pre-game dope, was liable to go either...
...Crum shows motion pictures to illustrate new plays, takes his players to Philadelphia to watch topnotch college teams. Before every game, a scout (who works at it full time) reports on the rival team's good & bad points. Last season 35,000 fans crammed into Allentown's gym to watch Crum's team...