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...trial for his newspaper 4) introducing, at the last minute evidence that will exonerate him and catch the real culprits off their guard. His plan fails in the last detail. The evidence- a purse containing the name of the murderer's companion-is stolen and young Chick Brian (Eric Linden) seems likely to be chairman at an electrocution His fiancée (Dorothy Jordan), whose father is police chief, can do nothing to help him. He is saved finally by an unlikely combination of circumstances beginning when the real murderer arouses the resentment of his mistress by kicking...
...hours on play and practice as compared with in hours of extracurricular effort by debaters, 122 by lacrosse players, 132 by dramatic club members, 186 by oarsmen and 241 by college journalists. For president, the Coaches Association chose Dr. Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens of Yale to succeed J. F. ("Chick") Meehan who recently resigned from N. Y. U. to coach at Manhattan College. Tall, quiet, solemn, Mai Stevens went to Yale as a transfer from Washburn College. Kan., paid his tuition as night watchman in an undertaking establishment. He was halfback of the 1923 Yale team, started coaching at Yale...
Resigned. John Francis ("Chick") Meehan, 37, football coach since 1925 at New York University, onetime (1920-25) head coach at Syracuse University; after an editorial published in the undergraduate newspaper criticizing "bigtime football . . . recruiting of players . . . subsidization of athletes, athletic scholarships. . . ." In Bulletin No. 23 of the Carnegie Foundation, published in 1929, N. Y. U. was listed with other colleges charged with subsidization (TIME...
...last week's game, the team coached by N. Y. U.'s Chick Meehan was a little too well-prepared. Expecting long forward passes, they were surprised in the second period when a Tennessee halfback named Beatty Feathers ran 65 yd. for a touchdown. Expecting Gene McEver's line drives, they were surprised a minute or two later when an alternate halfback, Herbert Brackett, behind brilliant blocking, ran 75 yd. for another touchdown. Except for Gene McEver's extra point-by a line plunge-after the first touchdown, there was no other scoring. The Tennessee defense...
...days of racing off Newport ended the cruise. Twenty-two year old Elizabeth ("Sis") Hovey, sailing her father's Istalena, beat Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (called "Chick" by fellow yachtsmen) in the Vanitie to win the Astor Cup for sloops; Rowe B. Metcalf's Sachem won the Astor Cup for schooners. Next day, in a fine fresh breeze, Weetamoe won the cup presented by King George V, beating Valiant by one second over the 30-mile triangular course...