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...rough in Indiana. There's always blood on the floor, and the guy whose blood it isn't just happens to be on top-temporarily." Last week the Wabash River was running bank-full of political blood, and the man on top in a statewide political brawl was a swift-footed, swashbuckling lawyer-politician named George North Craig...
Last month, in an unprecedented move, the city council of Oxford decided to patch things up once and for all. For the 600th anniversary of the great brawl, they planned a special ceremony, invited officials of the university to attend. Only one alderman-Laborite E. A. Smewin-objected. "The relations between town and gown," said he, "seem friendly enough-but so do those between the German people and the armies in Berlin. Oxford is an occupied city...
...Yardlings won the hard way, coming back from a two-goal deficit at the end of the first period to tie the score on Bob McVey's goal at 16:34 of the final stanza. The game was unusually fast and rough for a freshman contest, and a near-brawl occurred in the second period...
Peaceful Coexistence. In Point Lonsdale, Victoria, addressing the third annual convention of the Skin Divers' and Spear-fishermen's Association of Australia, Delegate Dick Charles happily reported that "bad blood between spearfishermen and anglers in New South Wales is dying out; no longer do they brawl and flatten each other with oars...
Milk and doughnuts will be available with the traditional beer and protests at this year's Smoker, the Smoker committee decided last night. The change is intended to keep the event, scheduled for Feb. 17, from "becoming an excuse for a brawl...