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...native Kentuckian (born in a town called Hurricane), Tom Wallace joined the Times, at no pay, in 1900. He was 31 when Watterson made him the youngest member of the Courier-Journal editorial-page crew. Thirteen years later, when Marse Henry quit in a huff (because Owner Robert Worth Bingham came out for the League of Nations), Wallace switched to the Times as chief editorial writer. He has been there ever since, driving at dawn from his 150-acre dairy farm to fire his pungent editorial missiles through the composing room tubes...
...world. Although the crew rows distances up to on miles a day in practice, all the season's regular races are sprints, with lengths ranging from the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles--"leave it to the British to pick such an unorthodox distance" says Bill Bingham--through the mile-and-three-quarters, two-mile, and 2000 meter courses...
Commenting on economy plans Bingham said, "We still have not reached pre-war income, while travel and replacement costs are way up." The Jayvee teams are the logical sphere for economy, he said, because schedules for them are difficult to arrange since Yale has drastically curtailed its secondary team setup. "We are retaining them in the sports where Yale games can be arranged...
...Jayvees back into the scheme," Bingham added, "I shall. The question is simply a financial one. We are still suffering from the suspension of athletics during the war; the football schedule still is not back to a pre-war level...
Abolition of the Jayvee hockey team was a special case because ice is not available in Boston for the skaters next winter. "I'm not even certain we can secure ice for the Varsity," Bingham added...