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With their first meet, the University Handicap, next Friday, Coach Jaakko Mikkola's cross country runners will start their formal season next Monday with a meeting at 4:45 o'clock in Dillon. Although the squad practiced regularly during the second session of Summer School, this meeting, at which Jim Reid, 1928 cross country captain and Harvard record holder the for the two-mile, will speak, will serve to organize the team and explain fall plans to new Freshmen and those who have not been in Summer School...
...winning the war. We are winning it slowly, and we could still lose it, but somehow I feel history will approve the over-all picture of the job being done today. Our armed forces started under a bad handicap, and yet win spectacular, telling engagements. I can see no real failures here at home. There have been mistakes, but one by one they are corrected. We will not run out of rubber. We will not run out of steel, or aluminum, or anything that...
...Minneapolis who looks like Lord Halifax but has a lot more bounce. He has probably done more than any other man alive to combine the activities of golf and religion; he has built St. Luke's Church up from 30 to 1,000 members while cutting his golf handicap down to 8. His "Good Golfers' Dinners" are famed throughout the Northwest, feature screwball debates on such subjects as "RESOLVED, That all bad putting is due to a bad conscience." Now Pastor Tyner also preaches twice weekly in a sports column for the Minneapolis Star-Journal...
Peter Gray lost his right arm (well above the elbow) in an automobile accident when he was six. Despite his handicap, he was leading his league last week in both batting (.393) and fielding (1.000). True, he had played only 16 games (he broke his collarbone diving for a shoestring catch early in the season). But in those 16 games, his first in organized baseball, Pete Gray had given fans something to cheer about...
...dwindled to a close, but the die-hards of the squad are still raring to go, with three distance men entered in the annual Scottish Clans Labor Day meet in Brookline. The long weekend and the fact that all other running and field events are handicap contests, has probably discouraged other men from participating...