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...three-quarters of a century St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Tex. was content to educate a handful of local Catholics who were unable to attend larger and better colleges. Then along came John Clark ("Mose") Simms, an engaging spieler with a big idea...
...Mose Simms had played football at four colleges, had coached a local high-school team, had more recently promoted a few oil schemes. He persuaded the Brothers of the Society of Mary to let him sponsor a football team for them. St. Mary's had once tried to finance an athletic program but found the money wanting. Mose presented himself as a football angel. The Brothers turned over the college's athletics to him as a sort of concession...
...confronted with the major reconstruction job that was his a year ago, but graduation will take an average toll from the Harvard football camp. Fleet Torble Macdonald will no longer grace the Soldiers Field gridiron, and scholar-athlete Tom Healey leaves a gaping hole at right tackle. Mose Hallett, another tackle veteran, graduates, making that position Coach Harlow's number one problem area. In addition to those three men, Jim Devine, Bart Kelley, Ernie Sargeant, George Downing, Bill Coleman, and Frazier Curtis will be among the missing when football season rolls around again...
...mound for Boston was diamond-wise Robert Moses ("Ole Mose") Grove, No. 1 Red Sox pitcher despite his 40 years. With masterful control and rare cunning, resorted to when the blaze died out of his famed fireball five years ago, Ole Mose confounded Washington batters. Up they came and down they went. By the eighth inning, no Senator had even got to first base on a walk. Then, after retiring 21 batters in a row-with a no-hit, no-run game almost in the palm of his glove-Grove faltered. One hit was chalked up against him, then another...
WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt threw out the first ball today to open the 1940 Major League baseball season, but Ol' Mose Grove threw the ones that counted and the Boston Red Sox blanked the Washington Senators, 1-0, before...