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Roberts may very well see action on Saturday, but his rapid promotion from Jayvee to potential Varsity first-string in the space of one week has been a little too sudden to justify his starting. The strain on a player so handled would be too great...
...cheering thing about this week's practice has been the way in which the Varsity has refused to let its morale be weakened by the string of injuries that it has faced since the game a week...
Crempa's device to annoy Public Service was to tie a long string to a stone, throw it over the high-tension wires that crossed his property, pull a metal object across the wires, short-circuiting the line and putting out the lights in three neighboring towns. He did this some 21 times. Public Service fought back by charging him with malicious mischief, making him serve a six-month jail sentence in 1931. After that the company got an injunction to keep Crempa from tampering its wires. When he continued his short-circuiting pranks, the court cited...
This spree was not without some skulduggery. First insiders spread the false rumor that Italy had quit the League of Nations. Shares zoomed wildly up. When the regular press association cables contradicted this false hope, shares slumped, the shoe-string speculators were sold out and the insiders picked up their 'shares again, having turned a quick profit. Later in the week the rumor mongers tried one along the line that Italy had accepted a League compromise. The short-sellers covered themselves comfortably as the market skidded down, were in a position to get back on the long side when...
Once more the feature of the day was provided by Franny Lane, who appeared yesterday in the backfield of "H" team. That means that in three days Lane has moved from the Jayvees to the Varsity's second string, which is just about the fastest promotion ever accorded any man at Soldiers Field...