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Things started with a place kicking and punting drill for the backs. Then Wes Fesler went into a huddle with the end squad and spent half an hour explaining possible situations and what to do about them. Wes is rather an expert on that subject, you know...
Blue makes friends with Man Jay, the settlement's bad boy and with Cooch, the bad little girl who knows "where babies come from and everything." Best of all he likes Cricket, a little orphaned "bright skin" girl, half white, half black. She lives with Blue's Uncle Wes and his wife Missie, works in the cotton fields, whips the okra bushes to make them bear. Everybody prophesies a bad end for the "bright skin," warns Blue to keep away from...
After Uncle Wes dies of a knife-wound, complicated by Big Pa's conjuring, Cricket grows more & more restless. Though she loves Blue, she will not listen to his marriage proposals: she wants to go off to the big city, where Man Jay had gone before. When a rich stranger appears in the neighborhood and steals the bootleg trade away from Uncle Kelly, Cricket takes up with him. On the day set for their wedding the groom does not appear. Uncle Kelly has settled him. But the bride, all dressed for a wedding, must have a groom. Blue snatches...
...American League). Averill, an outfielder from San Francisco, jumped into fame by batting a home run over the fence the first time he played in Cleveland. As last season went on, his fame grew. Lew Fonseca led the League in batting, and he, with Averill and two fine pitchers-Wes Ferrell and Willis Hudlin-may have to be the whole...
...State 6 3--Conn. A. C. 6 20--Tufts 0 37--Lowell T. 0 33--Maine 0 30--Bates Brown 0 213 22 SYRACUSE 35--Hobart 0 26--Mercer 0 21--Wm. & Mary 7 10--Boston Col. 0 10--Penn State 6 7--Pittsburg 7 3--W. Va. Wes. 7 23--Niagara Colgate 6 138 33 DARTMOUTH 40--Norwich 0 52--McGill 0 38--Vermont 0 14--Yale 14 6--Harvard 0 10--Brown 3 38--Boston U. 0 27--Cornell 14 225 31 ANNAPOLIS 14--Wm. & Mary 7 3--Marquette 21 14--Princeton 17 7--W. Va. Wes...