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Outbidding Hearst, Meyer bought the Post anonymously at auction for a bargain $825,000 in 1933-four years after he had offered $5,000,000 and been turned down. He found it "mentally, morally, physically and in every other way bankrupt," the raddled plaything of oil-rich Playboy Edward ("Ned") McLean. A horse fancier, gaudy Publisher McLean once devoted three of the paper's four sports pages to agate tables on racing performances. He brought his mistress to editorial conferences (so his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, charged in a divorce action) and made the old Post building on Pennsylvania...
...contest today will mark the first time the team has played outside after practicing in the I.A.B. since before vacation. Charlie Hamm will play in the first position followed by Jim Cameron, Billy Wood, Ned Weld, Bob Repetto, and Rodger Tuckerman. Four other freshmen who may see action in the doubles matches are Lawrence Pratt, Booy Haynes, Tom Haskins and Doonie Iselin...
Botsford hit a two-run homer the next day, Thursday, to pace the attack which defeated Virginia, 6 to 3. Ned Felton started and McGinnis finished up on the hill for the Crimson...
...will get a chance to test this hill corps, which also includes Ned Felton, Tom Fitzgibbons, Stan Schumann, and Herb Scheiner, on the squad's annual southern trip. The team opens a sixgame campaign Monday at Quantico, and by the time Saturday's encounter with the University of Delaware is over, Shepard should have a good idea of how his team will look for the rest of the season...
...NED I. COBB Tampa...