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...Babe Ruth of squash tennis is the New York Athletic Club's 31-year-old Harry Florian Wolf, who has held the so-called national amateur championship for nine years. Last week, on the slick white courts of Manhattan's Harvard Club, Slugger Wolf pasted his way through a bracket of 37 aspirants to his tenth championship, but as far as 99.44% of U. S. sport followers were concerned, he might as well have won the ash-barrel-rolling title...
...Foxx, who turned in the outstanding feat of the year-50 home-runs, 174 runs driven in and a batting average of .349-nonchalantly added this year's trophy to two others he has at home. Most valuable in 1932 and 1933 (when he was with the Athletics), Slugger Foxx, who was last year considered a has-been, last week became the first three-time No. 1 man since the poll was started...
William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, journeyed to New York a couple of days age to address the Herald-Tribune Forum on "Keeping the Mind Clean. Through Sport." Tennist Holen Wills and slugger Lou Gehrig were near him, but right beside him was a vacant chair...
...Keeping the Mind Young through Sport" will be the joint topic of the four speakers, although it is understood that Harvard's former track star and the man who found Dick Harlow will approach the subject in a slightly different manner from the three specialists, slugger Lou and the racquet-minded duet of Mrs. Moody and Davis...
Remote indeed was the chance that any Beck slugger would have been brought to book in Seattle a year ago. Brawny Dave Beck was then still boss over his teamsters, other unions, Seattle businessmen and Seattle politicians. Evidence that Boss Beck might be in a decline appeared early this year, when in Seattle's elections droves of A. F. of L. voters deserted to C. I. O. candidates. The fact that middle-of-the-road Mayor Arthur B. Langlie defeated both labor rivals did not help Dave Beck, did not stop the C. I. O. invasion of his domain...