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...minor changes such as are now in force for high-schools in a number of midwestern cities might be advisable, Mr. Bingham indicated...
Five days later another Midwestern team made Easterners look sick & slow. Sloshing over the same field, Indiana University's four-man team finished 1, 2, 3, and 5 in National Amateur Athletic Union's 10,000-metre run. Winner was stocky Donald L. Lash, who trotted home in the excellent time of 32:42.6. Seventh was Thomas C. Ottey, intercollegiate champion in 1933 and 1934. Since the Hoosiers did not run five men, team honors fell to Millrose Athletic Association for the fifth time in six years...
Since then, Nebraska has won four Big Six championships. Coach Bible says that winning games gives him less satisfaction than it used to but losing them is more painful. At Nebraska, his football squads usually contain a plethora of oversized Nordic farm boys. Most Midwestern teams enjoy elaborate junkets lasting from two days to a week. Coach Bible's squads rarely play far from Lincoln, arrive only a few hours before the game. A large source of income to his colleagues of comparable distinction comes from newspaper writing. Coach Bible rejects offers of this kind on the ground that...
...sturdy, unbending, uncommunicative, with a reputation for gruffness, Edgar Lee Masters lives in an obscure hotel in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, seldom appears at New York literary gatherings. Since he dresses carelessly, wears heavy spectacles and a characteristic expression of thin-lipped disapproval, he looks not unlike some Midwestern deacon described in Spoon River Anthology. Baldish, he dislikes being photographed except when wearing a hat. Hilary, his 7-year-old son by his second marriage, summers with him in New York, winters in Kansas City with his mother...
...admissions attracting crowds from 1,000 to capacity, may pay for themselves in a month. Principal rival to the American Association is the National Association, run by a onetime baseballer and sportswriter named Philip Rosier. Next year, Promoter Rosier plans a big-league circuit, with professional teams in nine Midwestern cities...