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Professional baseball has again covered itself with mud. Two players have tried to discredit the sport which they represent, for the sake of victory. What effect this incident will have on the national game is hard to predict. The wound which the White Sox inflicted in 1919 may prove still sensitive to the salt of scandal...
Golfer Tolley, behemoth of Britain, open champion of France, onetime amateur champion of England, captain of the lately defeated British Walker Cup team, has, like many another sport notable, thriftily put his prominence to account. A book bearing Tolley's name on its spine has appeared in U. S. book stalls...
...especial plea has been made by Coaches Edward Stevens and H. H. Haines to have inexperienced 1928 men report for crew this Fall. "In no other sport", Coach Stevens has said, "does the man without experience have the opportunity he has in crew. Inexperience is not a handicap...
With the twelve recently completed tennis courts now ready for use on Soldiers Field, facilities to meet the constantly increasing demand for this sport in the University will be considerably enhanced. In spite of one of the best equipments in the country however, it will be necessary to divide the large group of men who elect tennis as their required sport into four groups. Competition between the best players in each group will be repeated this year in the endeavor to uncover promising material for the Freshman team...
Coach Farrell attributed the small attendance at the opening session to no lack of interest in the sport but to the fact that there had been a good deal of misunderstanding as to the time when the cross country season was to start, as there had been some delay in announcing the day on which the squad was to meet. He expects an increased attendance later in the week when the squad begins its afternoon workouts around the Charles river course...