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Various gentlemen in Company Baker who have felt the sting of H.T. Garvey's various talents are beginning to wonder where he spent his youth. First of all he picked out the handsome, robust and be mustached Wally Landis to spar with during those two weeks of boxing instruction...
Landis discovered that Garvey had a left hand which had been to college. It transpired, in fact, that Garvey was the 168-pound boxing champion of Notro Dame University one year--about 1938. Then two other guys took Mr. Garvey on in bowling and he clicked off a trio of games averaging about 175. Somebody else invited him to play pool one night and he knocked in 13 of the first 15 balls before the other guy could chalk...
Everybody who attended the last company smoker was impressed with Garvey's ability to whistle and also to make like a trumpet. So whenever you introduce the man after this, always refer to him as "the talented Mr. Garvey." Incidentally he's an ex-newspaperman from Poughkeepsie...
...Espy, J. E. Faurot, D. E. Forst, Myrtile Frank, Jr., Edmond Garvey, R. D. Glendinning, W. W. Goodrich, R. R. Gordon, C. E. Goudge, R. A. Gray, C. T. Greenleaf, Jr., N. T. Harty, J. R. Hawk, F. H. Haye, P. P. Hebert, W. A. Hebert, E. W. Hening, Jr., R. S. Herman...
...year, was barely nosed out for the first choice by Lew Sandler of Kirkland. It was pretty much of a toss-up between the two players. Another position decided after much debate was the right guard slot, where "Buck" Lasser, Deacon Sophomore, was edged by his team-mate, Tom Garvey, who is a Senior...