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Other members of the Varsity entourage include Paul Fulton and Mort Dunn, utility infielders; Len Lunder, a fourth outfielder; alternate catchers Bill Barron and Webb Durant, and four other pitchers, Brenden Reilly, Ira Godin, Raiph Hymans, and Barry Turner. Turner is the squad's only left-handed twirler...
...yard backstroke was won by Tom Woods in good time, and both 150-yard medley relays were taken by the Yardlings. Mort Lomask, Dave Ayres, Shep Brown, Tom Woods, Gray Johnston, and Larry Ward made up the relay teams. In his first competitive performance, Winslow Briggs, won the diving event...
Lining up next to him in the tackle slot is Mort Singer, on the other side at center, Bill Sharpe, and at end appears Hugh McCaffery. The only thing of note about these men to a non-Kirkland rooter is that they all played on the pre-war house squad. And they all carry around 190 units of avoirdupois...
Boston's Mort Cooper, onetime St. Louis standby, shut out the Dodgers, 4-0. Just before that Brooklyn agony was over, an incongruous cheer went up. The Ebbets Field fans, many of them armed with portable radios to keep track of enemy operations, had heard that the Cubs had scored five runs and gone ahead of the Cards. An hour later it was over: the Cards and Dodgers stood even, each with 96 won, 58 lost. This week they would start all over again, in the first two-out-of-three playoff in big-league history...
Married. Morton Cecil ("Mort") Cooper, 33, burly Boston Braves ace pitcher (who on his wedding night was knocked out of the box by unfeeling St. Louis Cardinals); and Viola ("Dee") Smallwood, 25; he for the third time, she for the first; in Boston...