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McEvoy has seen more playing time than had been expected, due to fellow goalie John Devin's knee injury. It doesn't appear that Devin will have a chance to become Harvard's Wally Pipp--whose injury allowed Lou Gehrig to play in the first of his 2130 consecutive Yankee games--because he is expected back in action this weekend against Colgate (8-1 overall, 3-1 ECAC) or Cornell (2-3 overall, 1-3 ECAC...
...crowd and released a bird that was nesting in his hair; Bobo Holloman, who pitched only one complete game in the majors-and that one a no-hitter. There are players whose names alone could render them immortal: Eli Grba, Fenton Mole, Eppa Rixey, Wally Pipp, Napoleon Lajoie. All these men, the immortals and the "flakes," exist like the game beyond the erosions of style and time...
Adult suburbanites often moved out of the city for the same reason: more than a third say that they were looking for "green, open spaces." Many also say that they came to the suburbs to find friends and neighbors more like themselves. "Life is slower out here," says Robert Pipp, 58, who lives in Lower Paxton Township, a suburban part of Harrisburg, Pa. Surprisingly few give negative reasons-the problems of the city: crime, racial tension, pollution-for getting...
...petitioners," however, Pipp Marshall Boyls and Thomas H. Stanton of the Bevins Law Club, charged that this "skepticism" was not sufficient to repudiate their client's "sincere exercise." and answered Marshall's claim that acquittal might inevitably lead to "The New Brotherhood of the Poppy...
...Yankee Pipp, Lou Gehrig's slugging predecessor at first base, is off base. Farley never quite brought himself to back his ambition with cash...