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Died. Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, 67, oldtime Midwestern novelist and friend of Poet James Whitcomb Riley, who turned to writing travel books after World War I, published the highly successful So You're Going to - series; in Chicago...
Businessmen who had suffered from the loss of winter tourist trade got the ban lifted in 1915, and Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, owner of Kentucky's famed Idle Hour Farm, who took over the old course in 1925, turned it into a show place. The Colonel built up the New Orleans Handicap purse to $50,000 - the U. S.'s richest winter stake. Those brave days lasted seven years. Then Louisiana's oafish dictator, Huey Long, decided it was time for Bradley to go. Up went the Fair Grounds' real-estate assessment to prohibitive heights...
Again during the early part of the last period the Yardlings carried the fight, but as Truesdale and Cowen began to wear down under constant strain, the team's offensive drive faltered, and the Harrison to Riley combination pounded the clincher past O'Neill...
...Indians went out ahead in 8:35 of the first period when the Riley-Harrison combination from up North beat "Steve" O'Neill, who had come out of the crease to make the save only to have the puck bounce off his stick into the cage...
Editor A. Roy Atherton '44 and Business Manager James C. Mclroase '44, announced the election of Lewis Miles Krehn '44 of Farlow House and Utica, New York as Advertising Manager. Also selected for positions were William Riley Snow, Jr. '44 of Wigglesworth Hall and Abilene, Texas as Assistant Advertising Manager and Frants Sporon-Fielder of Grays Hall and San Francico as the first member of the Business board...