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TOMORROW Football In the Yale Bowl: Varsity-Yale1:45 p.m. TODAY Football On Anthony Thompson Field (Armoryville): Freshmen-Yale 2 p.m. On DeWitt Cuyler Field: Junior Varsity-Yale Soccer 2 p.m. Near Coxe Cage: Varsity-Yale 2 p.m. Freshmen-Yale 2 p.m. House Football On Waiter Camp Field: Eliot-Berkeley (championship) Field 2 2.45 p.m. Winthrop-Davenport, Field 1 2 p.m. Dudley-Trumbull, Field 3 2 p.m. Lowell-Pierson, Field 4 2 p.m. Kirkland-Calhoun, Field 5 2 p.m. Leverett-Dwight, Field 1 3:15 p.m. Dunster-Branford, Field 3 3:15 p.m. Adams-Saybrook, Field...
Last week, despite this record, buyers were waiting in line when the Browns once again went on the block. One of them was William DeWitt, 46, who got his start in baseball selling peanuts and soda pop, and worked up in 1936 to general manager of the club. Along with his big brother Charlie, 48, traveling secretary of the Browns for the past twelve years, Bill DeWitt scraped up some money and plunged in where other treading angels had gotten a hotfoot. The DeWitt brothers bought control (58%) of the Browns for about...
...Bill DeWitt had his reasons. Chief among them: the Browns own St. Louis' $1,200,000 Sportsman's Park (which they rent to the Cardinals for $35,000 a season) and a new $721,000 ballpark in San Antonio. Before anybody got impudent enough to ask whose money he used to buy the Browns, Bill firmly announced: "There are no associates in this thing with us. It's all Charlie and myself...
...worst came to worst, Bill DeWitt could always sell some ballplayers or a ballpark-or he could pack up the Browns (and their league franchise) and move them to another city. Since ball clubs began to travel by air, sportwriters have talked about the possibility of moving the franchise to the Pacific coast. Many of them feel sure that St. Louis would not support that much baseball, even if the Browns were a first-division club...
Buck joined President Conant, Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, University Librarian, Thomas S. Lamont, son of the late Thomas W. Lamont '92, and William D. Weeks '49, president of the Student Council in speaking at the dedication ceremonies in the Library's Forum Room today...