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Wally Flynn, a 190-pound 6 foot boy from Arlington made sports writers sit up and take notice with his kicking, and he is now the proud owner of the most talented toe on Soldiers Field. Whenever Harlow needs to get out of a tough spot this season, in will go Wally...
...also beast of having the best kicker on the squad. He is Wally Flynn, an Arlington boy, who is not yet up to the first team defensively, but who will definitely be used when the Crimson gets into tight places...
...Navy building across from Arlington Cemetery swiftly labored last week the first ruler of the WAVES, Lieut. Commander Mildred Helen McAfee. Her job: to organize and boss 11,000 Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service. The job was big: Director Oveta Hobby had spent eleven months planning the WAACs, had training well underway at Fort Des Moines. Miss McAfee was starting almost from scratch...
...Rounders, Texas Oilman Emerson F. Woodward's up-&-coming Irish-bred colt: the $25,000 Arlington Handicap; defeating (by three and a half lengths) turfdom's leading money winner, Whirlaway, who collected a mere $4,000 in second money; before a closing-day crowd of 30,000 at Chicago's Arlington Park. (Fortnight ago Rounders placed second in the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap, when Whirlaway upped his earnings to $454,336 to eclipse Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in horse-racing history...
Silver lining behind the defeat was the realization that the direct cause of the disaster, Walter Flynn, whose triple resulted in all the bad news would be on the other side of the fence next fall. The Arlington football and baseball star will register at Harvard in September...