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Young Ward will have the double incentive of pitching before his father's class and attempting to avenge the sole blotch on his otherwise perfect season's record. Ward, who has won seven games already during the present campaign, lost to Yale, 8 to 2, three weeks...
Almost equally dangerous are the maladies attacking America's fruits. In his penetrating contribution "Sooty Blotch and Fly Speck," author A. B. Groves examines two significant, apple-destroying fungi. Describing these diseases, he says, "Sooty Blotch appears as sootlike spots or blotches. Fly speck makes dark spots and looks something like fly specks." If more of Dr. Groves diagnoses were taken seriously, farmers would no longer need to wonder about those funny, black things on their apples...
Disqualification in one event cost Bill Brooks' freshman swimmers five points and a victory against Andover yesterday at the Blockhouse. The loss puts the first blotch on the Yardlings' previously undefeated record...
...Head. To clear things up, Pregel hired Manhattan's famed private detective Raymond Schindler to investigate him. Schindler found "there wasn't a blotch on him," but suggested that the Pregels might save themselves some trouble by turning over the management of the company to someone like Nelson. Nelson agreed to take over, provided the Pregels gave him voting control of their stock for two years...
...Government's June estimates. Said one surprised Kansas farmer: "I've got the finest 40-bushel straw and the poorest 10-bushel wheat you ever saw." Reasons for the dwindling crop: long, unseasonal rains, in some cases hail, and plant diseases like stem rust and glume blotch...