Word: cincinnati
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Died. Charles ("Swede") Risberg, 81, one of eight Chicago White Sox players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in the celebrated "Black Sox" scandal; in Red Bluff, Calif. After the best-of-nine series, which the underdog Reds won 5-3, several White Sox players told a Chicago grand jury that they had intentionally played poorly after gamblers plied them with bribes (up to $10,000) and threatened their families. A trial jury later acquitted eight players, including Shortstop Risberg and Outfielder Joe ("Say it ain't so, Joe") Jackson, of conspiracy charges...
...kicked footballs with his toe then, but now his employers, the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL, want him to kick with his instep, soccer style. They figure he will be a better kicker that way. They also figure that this is the time to teach him new tricks: McInally broke his leg and fractured his ankle in the College All-- Star Game last August, and has sat out the season thus...
...McInally had graduated amid much hoopla-- he was the first Harvard All-American since Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42 and the owner of a three-year contract with the Bengals-- but in the past four months he hasn't done much except nurse a broken leg, collect coins in his Cincinnati house, read Henry Miller, and draw his full salary (which he won't disclose.) He has yet to wear his Bengals jersey, a jarring detail to those who remember McInally going virtually everywhere last year wearing a big 84, his Harvard number. (At times, it seemed as though...
Lincoln delivered news about mutual friends--graduates, people with jobs, people at medical school. McInally was hungry for details, maybe because he now lives in a midwestern boondock through which few Harvard paths cross. Cincinnati is not New York or Washington, and if not for his roommate John Keogh, who works in Cincinnati for Procter and Gamble and once played second-string tackle, McInally would almost be starved for familiar faces...
...Cincinnati life has been sedate so far, partly because of the injury, but partly because he has wanted it that way. "Girls from the neighborhood come to our door asking to see the Bengal, the celebrity," says Keogh, who was here Saturday for the Dartmouth game. But he says McInally only talks with them and nothing more...