Word: grahams
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...family, indeed, could not have been better designed to excite the interest of a chronicler of domestic drama. Mary's mother was Dr. Helen Watson, a daughter of that Thomas A. Watson who was on the other end of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone conversation
There is much to be gained by everyone on the team from competition in the Easterns (even if it is of short duration). "Closing our club" as Mr. Graham suggests would result in too great a stagnation in the quality of Ivy wrestling. If there were not this absolute aesthetic quality about wrestling I would see no reason in trying to improve oneself through competition with other schools--we could all stagnate in an intramural program...
There is no sense in doing something at all unless you are going to do it well. To wrestle well, one needs to compete against good wrestlers; and as Mr. Graham point out all the good wrestlers are not necessarily on Ivy teams...
...Graham's casual review of the results of the Easterns fails to cover entirely the performance of Tack Chace, who pinned twice in the unlimited class--first against Columbia and then against Temple in the consolations. Time and distance prevented Mr. Graham from attending the Easterns but he seems to have obtained enough information to indicate that Joel Raichlin of Syracuse ". . . helpfully sprained his ankle and had to default...
...GRAHAM replies: I don't believe Mr. Brooks' points are valid, most simply because an Ivy tournament would not necessitate withdrawing from the Easterns. Harvard teams competed in two tournaments--the New England AAU and the Easterns a week later--for most of the last decade, and they could do so again. My own suggestion was that the top two winners in each class at the Ivy meet should go on to the Easterns...