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...Angeles" because its entire first team and four substitutes are former Indiana high-school players). In the first game Captain Hank Luisetti and his able teammate, Art Stoefen, who is a cousin of onetime Davis Cupper Lester Stoefen and No. 2 Stanford pointmaker, lived up to expectations, helped drub Southern California, 64-10-54. Next night Luisetti, suffering from an injured eye, scored only 13 points, and Stanford was beaten...
Meantime the Swiss Federal Council was fearful that Dictator Hitler might produce his big stick and drub Switzerland. As a Chicago Daily News headline put it, the Saint Gustloff murder case had become a "trial of Jews, Nazis and Switzerland itself." Eager to convince the furious Führer that they were on the right side of the Nordic fence, the Federal Council last week introduced a drastic, antiCommunist bill making even the most innocent Swiss flirtations with Moscow a penal offense...
...Freshmen Drub Gardiner...
Altogether 31 players, 15 from Yale and 16 from Harvard, took part in a game played under scorching hot conditions which virtually exhausted the battery men. The Blue won by jumping on Whitmore in the fourth when he was nearly overcome with heat, and continuing to drub the offerings of Ketchum, Colpak, Molloy and Prior mercilessly throughout the remainder of the game. Coach Mitchell refused to send either of his star sophomore twirlers, MacHale or Page to the hill, preferring to reserve them for duty in Cambridge...
Undaunted by Mayor Thompson's unfriendliness, the Lowden boom continued. While Mr. Lowden spent another quiet week at Sinnissippi, rounded off by a trip to Evanston to see the Northwestern University drub Iowa 12 to 0,* his name was formally entered for the Indiana primaries and his manager, State Senator Clarence F. Buck, reached Washington, D.C., full of confidence after a tour of the Midwest. Mr. Buck denied that Mayor Thompson would be actively unfriendly. Mr. Buck said that the industrial East was "lining up" behind Mr. Lowden. Literature to accelerate this "lining up" was issued, setting forth...