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...greatest assets in this department has been Sophomore first-sacker Ned Fitzgibbons. Brought in from his Yardling spot in the field, Fitzgibbons has replaced Bill Tully, who graduated, with errorless finesse and has proved more than capable of filling the offensive clean-up slot...
Hitting star of the tour was Sophomore Ned Fitzgibbons, who, in addition to playing three errorless ball games at first, hit eight for 13 times at bat, totalling 16 bases. Against the Navy he hit for the cycle with a single, double, triple, and a homer; and slapped a two-bagger in each of the Penn frays. Ed Buckley with six hits and Bill Barnes with four, including a circuit blow, were the other plate standouts...
Dreamer-up and director of this big business is bald, bespectacled Ned Irish, a mild, well-mannered, colorless man of 35, who looks more like a high-school Latin teacher than the spittoon-bombarding type of promoter. Ned Irish never owned a camel's-hair coat. After graduating from Penn, he wrote college sports first for Philadelphia newspapers, then on the World-Telegram. Assigned in the early '30s to cover a basketball game in Manhattan College's minuscule gym, he found the doors locked when he got there and such a crowd outside he couldn...
...approached with the idea of staging two basketball games for the Mayor's Unemployment Relief Fund, the boys were baffled. In their book, basketball was something played by girls in bloomers. But that winter New York's streets were filled with shivering men peddling apples, so Ned had his innings. When he sold $15,000 worth of tickets, you could have knocked the boys over with an apple core. In 1934 he put on his first big-time fixture: N.Y.U. v. Notre Dame, and the customers have been coming ever since...
...teams have played at the Garden in the past, but this season they preferred to keep in their own bailiwicks. The Ivy League does not play in the Garden, considering that the game is overemphasized there. Overemphasized or not, they are fine shows that Ned Irish produces. This year, while the finals were being played, a lady in a box narrowly escaped being slugged by her husband because in her excitement she tore handfuls of mink from her mink coat...