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Nineteen schools have entered 240 athletes in Class B to fight for the title won by Medford last year. Twenty-seven schools have entered 256 athletes in Class C in an attempt to wrest the crown from Beverly...
...Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun in 1926, the Canton (Ohio) Daily News in 1927. But the Pulitzer Prize winner for 1934 is so microscopic that most newsreaders east of the Rocky Mountains needed an atlas and an Ayer's Directory of Periodicals to identify it. It was the Medford (Ore.) Mail Tribune (circulation: 4,500). No less extraordinary than the obscurity of the winner was the fact that its achievement was conservatively defensive against a crusading opposition paper, the News. While the Mail Tribune got the Pulitzer Prize, the News's editor was serving a life sentence in prison...
...subject to his call at the signal of open revolution. Banks led a riotous march on the Court House, made a speech from the steps, would have thrown out the county officials bodily if the American Legion had not intervened. Oregon newspapers began referring to the "Mad Dog of Medford," and to the county as "The State of Paranoia." In February 1933 Editor Robert Waldo Ruhl of the Mail Tribune rose up in righteous anger against Editor Banks, who was nearly defeated already by his own misfortunes. Editor Ruhl, brother of Arthur Ruhl of the New York Herald Tribune...
Opening the first of a two-game series, the Varsity nine goes into action this afternoon on Soldiers Field against a hard-hitting Tufts team from Medford Heights, that blasted the Boston University outfit 16-2 in its season's opener...
Although the Medford trio drew first blood, and got another goal in the second period which saw Harvard's opening shot through the posts, their failure to score in the following chukker during which the Blue Jays banged in two goals, gave the Sophomore riders a lead which they maintained to the last chukker. In the sixth period, however, the Ramblers evened up the score...