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...John A. Spencer of Revere, Mass., was a mill-hand in a Maine lumber camp. He worked with the night shift and part of his job was to keep the boiler simmering. The boiler had a rounded clean-out door; and when John heaped up a hot fire, this door would go Crick! outward, convex like a bubble. When the fire cooled down, Crack! would go the boiler door, back inward, concave like a saucer...
First thought was to declare a half-holiday and put the brooms away. Then some more brilliant upholder of the Commonwealth bethought him of the simple trundlers garage men use to shift cars around with. With whoops of glee the entire force raided the nearest garage and brought back a trundler each five...
...spite of the rumor that Captain Hammond's shift to first base in the last practice encounter with the seconds would be a permanent change, he was back at his old position at second yesterday and from all appearances will probably stay there through the season...
...star second baseman and captain of the second team last year, was placed on Coach Mahan's first list. The promotion came after the two-inning game last Friday when Rice was given a permanent raise from Coach Lake's supervision. The other change was but a temporary shift in which H. L. DeRham '27 was moved up to substitute for A. W. Samborski '25 as first string catcher, Samborski being out of the game for the week with an injured finger...
...commenting on his changes Coach Stevens said last night. "The shift has been coming for some time. All preliminary rearrangements were simply leading up to this...