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...those days the Republicans knew very little of the secret Nazi-Communist war. Until the trial was well under way few people realized that more was at stake than a duel between a pimp named Albrecht Hoehler and a brown-shirted street fighter named Horst Wessel for the favor of a harlot. Eight people received sentences up to six years at hard labor. Albrecht Hoehler, who confessed firing the fatal shots, died very suddenly in jail last year immediately after the Nazis took over the government. Most of the rest have completed their terms. A new trial with three...
Penn. Franklin Field was one vast, miserable mud puddle, but 5,000 spectators turned out in the rain to see the ½mi. anchor-leg duel in the sprint medley between Indiana's Charles ("Chuck") Hornbostel and Princeton's William ("Bonny") Bonthron. Hornbostel's team mates gave him an advantage of 4 yd. at the start, but the spectacled Hoosier runner, who looks more like some obscure grind in a chemistry department than a track captain, did not need it. At the finish. Bonthron 6 yd. behind. Next day Indiana also won the one-and two-mile...
Captain John G. Burd '34, Philip E. Lilienthal 36, and Robert C. Ackerman 35 will duel in the foils matches. Webster F. Williams 35, and Edward A. Langenau 35 have been selected for the epee event, and Edward A. Ackerman '34, Richard Morgan '36, and Morton Grant '36 will fight in the sabre contests...
...same Crimson team that has dueled in previous meets will go into action with Captain John G. Hurd '34, Robert C. Ackerman '35, and Philip E. Lilienthal '36 in the foil matches. Edward E. Langenau '35 and Webster F. Williams '35 will duel in the open event, and Edward A. Ackerman '34, Morton Grant '36, and Richard Morgan '36 will be used in the sabre contests...
...change his lineup which has lost only two matches out of 30 in the last two meets. Captain John G. Hurd '34, Robert C. Ackerman '35, and Philip E. Lilienthal '36 will represent Harvard in the foils event. Edward E. Langenau '35 and Webster F. Williams '35 will duel in the open matches, and Morton Grant '36, Edward A. Ackerman '34, and Richard Morgan '36 will be used in the sabre event...