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Almost every spring, Stuffy McInnis faces a doubly-difficult problem in molding a varsity baseball team. Graduation losses are only part of the problem; lack of practice is an almost equal handicap. For Cambridge weather is seldom warm and often wet until the season has actually begun...
...most U.S. congressional districts, a man whose wife has accused him of adultery with a round dozen women would be carrying an impossible political handicap. But in California's 26th (southwest Los Angeles) this week, James Roosevelt, F.D.R.'s eldest son, stood up before the 26th's Democratic district convention to ask its endorsement as the party's candidate for Congress. A few delegates booed, but the majority heard Jimmy out, cheered him heartily. By a vote of 91-77 the convention endorsed Jimmy for the party nomination in the heavily Democratic 26th...
...Republican Party now operates under the handicap of sustaining individualism, but the true conservative does not object to legislative authority," he said...
Lack of height proved no handicap to the gold jerseys Wintergreen squad, as they surprised their taller opponents by outplaying them on the rebounds. Key man for the victors, guard Jim Jones of Dunster, used neat ball high scorers, with 11 and eight points respectively. Two Winthropmopn, Goorge doyle at guard and Dave Bodiker at forward tapped in seven and six points respectively to round out the four top Wintorgroon scorers...
...Arcadia. Calif., the King Ranch's Rejected, dead last at the three-quarter-mile mark, came on with a rush to win the mile-and-a-quarter $143,000 Santa Anita Handicap by a length plus...