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...Republican side Pin No. 1 is Lawyer C. Wayland Brooks, who as an assistant State's Attorney helped secure the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter. Pin No. 2 is onetime (1921-29) Governor Len Small, who ruled Illinois as head of a malodorous Republican machine, but to whom the farmers of Illinois are still grateful for the concrete roads he built...
...Captain Len Leboeuf and with Nat Batchelder, Jim Cahn, and Joe Doyle in starring roles, Coach Rene Percy's team won the epee easily 6-3, but dropped the foils decision by the same score. The match was decided when Batchelder won two bouts in the sabre to give the Crimson a 5-4 edge...
...apparently felt satisfied with their showing as well as that of the rest of the boat, for he said he intended to leave the seatings alone until the end of next week. At 2, Art Beane, although the lightest man in the boat, handled a nice oar, as did Len Eliel at 3. To take care of Varsity candidates who did not get into the first four eights, another crew will be named today and perhaps a sixth tomorrow...
Charlie has two good men for every position in the first boat, but expects to son a sharp competition for the number seven, oar, the weakest link at present. Phil Bray's graduation and Twining's failure to return from the Freshman boat leave it weak. At present Len Eliel and Boene Watson are the most eligible contestants...
...berserk athlete was Outfielder Leonard ("Len") Koenecke, 31, onetime railroad fireman noted among his Brooklyn Dodger teammates for his muscular torso, his pugnacity, his inability to hold hard liquor. Last week he was given his paycheck in St. Louis, where the team was playing, told to go home to his wife and child. Disconsolate at this dismissal, he started drinking on the way, was ejected from an American Airliner at Detroit. There he hired Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeny and his friend Irwin Davis, a professional parachute-jumper, to fly him to Buffalo. At 10 p. m., they took...