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Sirs: After reading your pidgin English version of Mose Simms's departure from St. Mary's University [TIME, April 28], I want to protest the wisecrack made in the first paragraph of your story, which was apparently written after a night of struggles with paranoia...
...interested in knowing me ES the person Mose Simms alluded to last autumn when he boasted "only one paying customer" on his football team. You see, I had the gall to come to St. Mary's without ever having heard of Mose Simms, and reported for football practice out of that little thing known as school spirit...
...third consecutive championship in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, as a result of outhitting the Elis for a 3-2 victory at New Haven last Saturday. In 1939 Cornell tied the Crimson for the championship; in 1940 she was undisputed winner with but one defeat; and this year Mose Quinn, in his second year as Varsity coach, appears to be guiding the Big Red to another championship. Ace moundsman Walt Sickles allowed the hard-hitting Elis but six hits, and contributed two of the ten safe blows which the Ithacans collected from Ted Harrison...
...Mary's enrollment increased to 992 students. (In 1934 it was 412.) But the Brothers at St. Mary's felt that Mr. Simms's promotion stunts had hurt the college's good name. Mose was displeased too. After six years, he said he was $40,000 in the hole. Last week Mose Simms resigned as St. Mary's athletic director, football, basketball and golf coach, trainer, press agent and bus driver. Said St. Mary's president, the Very Rev. Walter F. Golatka: "The University must have full control of the details of its athletic...
...week's end Mose's lawyers and accountants were checking up on his belongings, ready to sell them to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, the disillusioned Brothers at St. Mary's were trying to raise enough money to carry out the ambitious football schedule Promoter Simms had contracted for next fall. As for the players, it looked as if they would string along with Mose. "I'm no Hitler to make them go or stay in any one place," said Promoter Simms, "but I talked them into coming here and I might be able to persuade them...