Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before vacation, two positions, stroke and five, were worrying Coach Tom Bolles. At the stroke oar there were four possibilities, Bill Rowe, Jack Wilson, Colton Wagner, and Barr Comstock. From the outset it has seemed that Bill Rowe was the favorite. Last year he stroked the Jayvee shell. Bolles rates all four men as good strokes, but naturally not up to the standard set by Spike Chase last year...
Originator of the idea was slim, vigorous septuagenarian Vernon Campbell, long associated with California coops. Legislature approved a similar bill two years ago, but ex-Governor Frank F. Merriam killed it with a pocket veto. Busy Mr. Campbell has already organized his Exchange, with a board of directors including top flight Los Angeles bigwigs. Los Angeles Times Editor Ralph Trueblood offered to help, was told to lay low lest he scare off California Democrats. Liberal Publisher Manchester Boddy also was asked to keep quiet, lest he frighten Republicans...
These tactics worked admirably. Last week two Republican Senators sponsored Mr. Campbell's bill, all but seven Senate Republicans voted for it. So did all but two Democrats, after talking it over with Governor Culbert Olson. Happy Mr. Campbell counted on favorable action by the Assembly, Governor Olson and the U. S. lenders without whom the plan cannot work. If all cooperate, Cooperator Campbell's first community for balanced farmers, carpenters, barbers, etc. will rise at Bellflower, about 20 miles south of Los Angeles...
...that time humanitarians were thoroughly aroused. In Boston, State Senator George Krapf filed a bill ordering the State Conservation Department to "preserve the fish from cruel and wanton consumption." Meanwhile Robert F. Sellar, president of Boston's Animal Rescue League, threatened to send agents to arrest goldfish swallowers if college authorities did not stop it. Said he: "This is not a subject for levity. I hesitate to bring such a matter to court, but we won't sidestep the issue. There have been too many complaints...
...Naval Training Station at Norfolk, Virginia, crushing them to the tune of a 15-2 score. Slim Curtiss, Charlie Brackett and Jack Schwede shared the pitching assignment, with Curtiss carrying off top honors. Reino Grondahl smashed out a three-bagger and two singles in six trips to the plate. Bill Tully hit Harvard's lone home run of the series...