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...Hatch vs. Tom Healey, the long-awaited hurling duel between the rival captains and ace pitchers of the Tufts and Harvard baseball squads, will materialize tomorrow afternoon as the Jumbos tangle with the Stahlmen in the first home game on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. Scheduled for last Saturday, the game was postponed when rain and cold turned the diamond into a frozen morass...
...tyrant-hating Red Shirts, peppery Peppino Garibaldi naturally did not think much of Benito Mussolini's Black Shirt". IN 1924 he called the Roman Legions of the Fascist militia "a gang in the pay of the Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved to the U. S. He married...
Aside from the Cutler-Johnson duel in the 220, the best race of the meet should be Yale's Joe Burns versus Art Bosworth in the 150 backstroke. The Blue dorsal expert has been turning in slightly faster times this year, but Bossie is sure to make it a real six-lap battle. Dick Harris will compete against either John Brueckel, Charlie Kilvert or Bob White, of the Elis, for third place...
...bones of many a famed '49er left San Francisco's Laurel Hill Cemetery to make way for a real estate development. Dug up were the skeletons of California's Senator David C. Broderick, killed in the West's most noted duel, in 1859, by California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry; Nevada's Senator William Sharon, Comstock Lode proprietor who entertained President Grant on gold plate in 1879; California Circuit Court Judge M. Hall McAllister, who sired Socialite Ward McAllister; William M. Bourn, whose money bought the Killarney Lakes for the Irish Free State...
Only one other league meet is listed for settlement this week-Dartmouth at Columbia, also on Saturday--but members of the circuit will compete in several non-league meets as well. Among the best of these will be the Yale-Wayne duel and the Army-Navy engagement, both on Saturday...