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Last week the whole question was exemplified in the case of one of baseball's highest-paid players ($35,000 or more)- Tiger Henry ("Hank") Greenberg, homerun champion (41) and "most valuable" player of the American League last year. Outfielder Greenberg, 30, unmarried, no dependents, local draft No. 621, was due to be called in midseason. With him, Detroit was a formidable ball club; without him, it might be just average. In Manhattan last week, on his way to join the Tigers, Hank Greenberg spoke a marmoreal mouthful: ". . . When my number comes up, I'm going...
...able to hold him to a decision. Dick Thomas turned in his usual steady performance in the 145-pound bracket, garnering the Crimson's second pin in 6:35. Tom Rogstad, with the meet already won by Princeton, wrested a 5 to 0 referee's decision from the Tiger heavyweight...
Aside from this, the matmen did a very satisfactory job. Captain Ted Schoenberg got the meet a good start by tying the 121-pound Tiger up in knots. He pinned him in 5:15 with a beautiful half nelson...
...seeded for the tournament beginning Thursday is Tiger Charlie Brinton who won the National Tournament held in New York yesterday afternoon. Seniors Gene Nickerson and Sonny Lyell together with Sophomores Decker Orr and Sandy Parker from Barbaby's strong 1941 squad are rated a good chance to score an upset...
Harvard's undefeated swimming squad comes to grips with its climax opponent of the year, the Princeton Tiger, in slippery old Brokaw Pool tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The Tigers, with an accent on their Captain Ned Parke, have been an in-and-out team this year, and Harvard does not quite know what to expect tomorrow...