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TIME, Feb. 5, states that the American Y.M.C.A. invented basketball. To be correct, it was invented by my father's uncle, James Naismith, while he was an instructor at a Y.M.C.A. training school at Springfield, Mass...
Missouri-born, farm-bred Bill Roberts went to Allis-Chalmers as a salesman in 1924, fresh from the Springfield (Mo.) Business College and a position with a Missouri road construction company. In 1931 he Became sales manager of the tractor division, and ten years later its general manager. The division developed such products as the first tractor with rubber tires, an all-crop harvester that outsold every other combine, a huge 20-ton crawler tractor, and during World War II made high-speed crawler prime movers for the Army. Since the end of the war, the tractor division...
Fresh from a trouncing of Springfield College Wednesday, the varsity swimmers will take on Navy at 4:30 p.m. today in the Indoor Athletic Building. The Middies should be a worn-out team by then after losing to Dartmouth yesterday...
...better than the Crimson's in its last meet was the 440-yard freestyle, which Vandersluys won in 5:05. In the backstroke event, Boyd Johnson set a Dartmouth pool record of 2:19.1, but John Steinhart can top this with his own pool record of 2:16.3 at Springfield...
Williams, like the Crimson, was beaten by Brown; in addition, the Ephmen have lost to the Coast Guard, tied Springfield, and beaten Wesleyan. The only change in the Harvard lineup finds sophomore Russ Harris at 157 in place of Ted Anderson. Howie Houston's freshmen are idle until Wednesday...