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Scheduled to start on the mound, Bud Mains, the Yardling fast-ball artist, will try to repeat the sixteenth inning victory he scored over North-eastern last week. To cap his hurling marathon, he knocked out five hits that afternoon, winning his own ball-game with a clean single...
Claiming that Joe Smith's marathon record was "nothing compared with mine," Kieve said yesterday that he is planning to work up a half-hour program in 20 minutes "just to see what it will sound like...
...were in terrible shape, that the situation was excellent, and that he was attacking. He forgets, it would appear, that the situation was excellent only because an active defense had lured the Germans on and tempted them to abandon partially the Schlieffen plan. When he cites the Battle of Marathon he forgets that it is the classic example of the "double envelopment," a military term meaning that you let the enemy dig his own grave and then shovel him in. One cannot discard the defense as valueless with a scoff and a biting remark. Colonel Kernan disregards the two most...
...survivors of the crew of the U-37, a Nazi submarine sunk by air bombs in Canadian waters, run a marathon across Canada (Hudson Bay to Alberta). One (Eric Portman) goes the distance; the others are killed or captured along the way. The survivor becomes, prematurely, the darling of the Nazi radio ("one Nazi against 11,000,000 Canadians"); a lone Canadian Army private (Mr. Massey), fed up with guarding the Chippawa Canal, polishes the Nazi off in democratic fashion (fists) before he can reach the sanctuary of U.S. soil...
Died. John ("Jack") Burke, 67, famed marathon fighter of the '90s; of injuries apparently suffered in traffic; in Plainfield, N.J. Burke and Andy Bowen fought the longest glove battle on record, in New Orleans in 1893: no rounds. The two battered each other for seven hours and 19 minutes to a draw...