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...Columbus, Ohio, Charles W. ("Chick") Harley, remembered by the football world for the crooked smile and the crooked, sidestepping gait that were his when dazzling broken-field runs won two Conference championships for Ohio State (1916, 1917), last week besought a court to strike from its record lunacy proceedings that were brought against him, successfully...
...Chick" Harley was an all-American halfback in 1916 and 1919. After being graduated by Ohio State, he and other Conference players formed a team, at Chicago, in 1920, called the "Staleys" and joined the National Professional Football League. In a game, Harley was severely injured. Normally a mild-mannered man, Harley became morose and pugnacious in the spring of 1922, possibly as the result of his injury. He went to sanatoriums, seemed to recover, then relapsed. Friends told of his "cleaning out" restaurants and theatres, of his annoying the family of a former sweetheart by nocturnal demonstrations. The sweetheart...
...Johnson of Dayton won, going 64.10 m.p.h. in a little yellow bug with a single, underslung wing on each side. Etienne Dormoy of Dayton flew his cherished "flying bathtub" 50.01 m.p.h. for second prize. H. C. Mummert of Garden City won another low-powered event with his 18-horse Harley-Davidson special...
Score, Harvard Freshman 6, Newton High School 2. Goals, Coady 3, Burnett, Gross, Hamlen, Holbrook, Spain. Time, three 12-minute periods. Referee, Harley...
...condemnatory roar of a great plurality, the tables were turned in 1922, a scant two years later, in the state and congressional elections. The fickle plebes had grown so sour upon Republican administration that a good Republican governor in New York was turned out, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts Harley squeezed through to reelection and a Senate with a violent Republican tinge was reduced to a Republican majority so small as to be scarcely workable. Nor has the opinion been much sweetened by the barren record of the Sixty-seventh Congress...