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Herbert ("Dutch") Leonard, one-time Detroit baseball player, recently gave or sold certain letters to Byron Bancroft Johnson, president of the American League and to Judge Landis, baseball commissioner. Last week the letters were published; scandal flared. It seems, from Leonard's "grudge" testimony and from the letters, that Tyrus Cobb, Tristram Speaker, Joseph Wood and Leonard agreed that Detroit should win the ball game of Sept. 24, 1919, from Cleveland, and that they four would bet on it. Cleveland had second place in the league clinched; Detroit could be allowed to win the game and gain third place...
...Soule '27 will be in charge of the ushers, and will be assisted by E. B. Jackson '28. The list of ushers is as follows: George Bancroft '27, Laurence Batchelder '28, A. C. Bemis '28, F. B. Cutts '28, R. T. Flood '27, K. B. Harding '27, B. S. Kennard 2G., D. A. Lomasney '28. S. D. Richards '27, and G. P. Sturgis...
...nominating committee, which consists of J. W. Hurlbut '27, chairman, George Bancroft '27, R. M. Cook '27, G. W. Govan '27, and R. A. Magowan '27, will announce the names of the nominees and will publish a list of men who are eligible to vote...
...following students will be ushers: George Bancroft '27, Laurence Batcheler '28, A. C. Bemis '28, F. B. Cutts '28, R. T. Flood '27, K. B. Harding '27, B. E. Kennard 2G., D. A. Lomasney '28, S. D. Richards '27, G. P. Sturgis...
...third of the memorial's cost will be borne by the estate of the late U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Edgar Addison Bancroft at whose instigation it is being constructed. His friend and fellow Chicago attorney Henry M. Wolf (of Judah, Willard, Wolf, and Reichmann) has contributed another third. Viscount Shibusawa having made up the rest, the monument partakes of a binational character soothing to the feelings of Japanese unfriendly to the U. S. The present U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh moreover greatly resembles his very generally popular predecessor, Ambassador Bancroft. The names of both men are identified with...