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...long touchdown runs by fullback Riley Gilbert and a line buck by halfback Fred Rhinelander sparked Eliot to a 20 to 6 win over Winthrop yesterday. Meanwhile, Leverett gained a 13 to 0 victory over undermanned Adams, as tailback Sam Paschal scored twice on off-tackle slashes...
Adams' only scoring threat came in the third period on a screen pass to quarterback Dave Andrews from fullback Kevin Riley. Andrews ran to the six-yard line, but a fumble on a bad pass from center ended this bid. Paschal then get away from four tacklers for a 50-yard touchdown run. Gallo made the point this time to close out the Bunny scoring...
...Chicago, 23-year-old Polly Riley of Fort Worth capped an eight-year effort to win the Women's Western Amateur Golf Championship by doing just that, 4 and 3, over 24-year-old Mae Murray of Rutland...
...this time I was running out of names, so I called Jim Carr, president of the Riley Memorial Association. He told me that Judge Will Hough at Greenfield, where Riley was born, might be able to help. The judge asked me why I didn't get hold of one of Rid-path's two daughters. I said that I had been told there were no living Ridpath descendants. He said that was peculiar because he had seen one of them, Mrs. Myrtle Cook, in Greenfield a few days before. The other, a Mrs. Thayer, lived in Indianapolis...
...waited while she went to get it. Finally, she returned and announced that sure enough the T-Y-T-Y was there, all right, although she had never noticed it before. 'But I can tell you it means nothing,' she added. 'It was part of Mr. Riley's humor. By adding T-Y-T-Y at the end of the degrees, he was making fun of them. In earlier years that's the way children learned to spell. You spelled each syllable, then you pronounced it. Like the word amity, for instance...