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...tragic flaw lies not in his character, but in the fact that he is only an "Acting Colonel." The War Office sends a man named Basil Barrow from London to take over the battalion. A "poor wee laddie," who is colder than Flora MacDonald,* he had spent the war in British intelligence. Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers...
...Owens of little Mississippi Southern play an abso lutely immovable defensive tackle and groaned to think that Don had already been drafted by Pittsburgh. The South's Coach Paul Brown, of the Cleveland Browns, was frankly amazed at the rugged agility of Florida Guard John Barrow. No pro team had yet drafted Barrow, but there he was, tearing up the middle of the line, opening holes for the breakneck charges of Miami's Don Bosseler. Said Brown: "I want...
Freshman heavies: Mark Hoffman, stroke; Peter Tulloch, seven; Jim Leonard, six; Jim McClennen, five; Townsend Swayze, four; Paul Wohlford, three; Claude Nuzum, two; Jim Meade, bow; Barrow Peale, coxswain...
...knees, "Hans" Wagner was a Pennsylvania coal miner at twelve, a barber a few years later, when he came up to the light and air. Then in 1895 he tried semipro baseball. Big League managers who looked him over were scared off by his clumsy walking gait. Only Ed Barrow, who later built up the New York Yankees, stuck around to watch popeyed as the fleet-footed Wagner covered ground in tremendous toadlike leaps, smothered the ball in his huge hands. Barrow wasted no time signing the youngster to play for his Paterson, N.J. team...
Honus covered the bag, reached out to make a one-handed catch and came running to the dugout for help. His right fist was still stuck fast, curled around the tobacco in his hip pocket. Ed Barrow had to cut him loose with a penknife...