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Winter sports in the House athletic leagues began this week with the first practices in basketball in the Indoor Athletic Building gym. Most of the fives began playing yesterday, although Adams and Dunster held an informal game Monday which ended up with a 12-10 victory for the Funsters after an overtime period...
...preliminary game to the Varsity exhibition match, the Jayvee five meets the Coast Guard reserve aggregation at 7 o'clock tomorrow at the Indoor Athletic building gym. Floyd Stahl's squad faces its first test of actual competition against the Boston station's team in a contest that will be marked by the inauguration of the new Freshman eligibility rule in winter athletic annals...
Died. Arthur ("Artie") McGovern, 54, famed body builder to Broadway and Wall Street; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A onetime flyweight fighter, he did fairly well as a gym instructor till 1925, then shot to fame by reconditioning Babe Ruth, who came out of a slump of 25 home runs to knock out 47 next season, 60 the next. McGovern opened a second gym, largest of its kind in the world, specialized in "pushing the big shots out of bed," got $200 a month per customer for an hour's exercise a day (chiefly in a reclining position...
...Frank got up at 3 a.m. to cover the morning paper route, doubled on an evening paper route after school, earned $2.25 a week. He worked his way through Michigan's little Alma College by waiting tables, spading gardens, painting signs, talking himself into a job as gym instructor. After the Spanish-American War he broke into journalism as a $10-a-week reporter, married his college sweetheart, lived on a family budget that gave him 50? a week for spending money, usually managed to save a dime out of his allowance toward a paper...
...spittoon-bombarding type of promoter. Ned Irish never owned a camel's-hair coat. After graduating from Penn, he wrote college sports first for Philadelphia newspapers, then on the World-Telegram. Assigned in the early '30s to cover a basketball game in Manhattan College's minuscule gym, he found the doors locked when he got there and such a crowd outside he couldn't even get to the doors to pound. Filled with a cub's do-or-die spirit, he climbed through a window and tore his pants. That clinched it. Why shouldn...