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...cards for himself. Dick Hough, in the breastroke, is almost certain to finish ahead of Fritz Berrizl. Hough's personal record is five seconds faster than Berizzl's. With Van de Weghe and Hough in the medley relay, assisted by Van Oss or Simpson for the free-style leg, the Tigers stand a better-than-average chance of winning that event. They have broken Harvard's intercollegiate record in the medley this year...
...might have been expected, Michigan won, but only after the score had been tied three times and finally clinched (41-to-34) in the very last event on the program when Michigan's Haynie beat Yale's Captain John Macionis by a touch in the anchor leg of the 400-yd. relay...
Died. Isidore ("Izzy") Einstein, 57, most famous Prohibition agent; ten days after amputation of his right leg; in Manhattan. With his partner Moe Smith, Izzy operated so successfully on what he called the "Einstein Theory of Rum Snooping" that as direct result of his raids 4,932 bartenders, bootleggers, speakeasy owners tripped to jail. Izzy liked to "play" streetcar conductor, gravedigger, fisherman, iceman, opera singer. He walked into the Democratic National Convention of 1924 (Manhattan) with a goatee glued to his chin, announcing himself as a delegate from Kentucky, found only soda...
...Boston Traveler appeared an ad: All wool navy ski pants, three dollars and forty cents per leg. Seats free...
...escape. The second time, he and eight companions got hold of an Indian dugout, headed into the Caribbean. When they ran into rough weather and it turned out that none of them knew navigation, they beached the boat, started back through dense jungle for the Penal Colony. A peg-legged convict killed a comrade for his can of condensed milk, and the leader in turn killed him. They roasted and ate his liver and his good left leg, of which Belbenoit confesses that one mouthful (which tasted like wild pig) was enough...