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...lineup: if, Skinner, Gabler; c, McCormick, Brady; rf, Smith; lg, Wegner; rg, Styles, Francis...
Publisher Bertie McCormick of the Chicago Tribune ("I'm a Taft man myself") got back to the U.S. after a five-week Pacific junket and unburdened himself of a wealth of political opinions: 1) though General Douglas MacArthur is not a presidential candidate, he would not refuse a draft; 2) "There will be no damned foreigners in the Illinois G.O.P. primary. If Dewey or Stassen try to crash . . . we'll have to do something about it"; 3) "I think very highly of Warren, but a man cannot go into a national convention with only one state...
Last night proved that the exceptional all-round improvement shown during the last week of practice in team play was not only a dream raiser. Plays clicked and extinguished any semblance of a Tech defense, with pivot-man Pat McCormick, his alternator John, Lombard, and Smith virtually roping off the backboard areas and tipping the points in at will over the heads of the M.I.T. quintet...
...Yardlings copped the lead in the first few minutes of play, arched it up into the double figures before M.I.T. scored once, and never relinquished the lead. McCormick and guard Quent in Styles were instrumental in this early rush...
...McCormick, whose eye seemed to weaken as the game progressed totaled six points in the first quarter and only two in his next two periods of play for a total of ten points, second high of the game. Styles poled in four one armed field goals from deep court and set up several other baskets with his quick and deceptive passing...