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Gracing the mound for the Tag-and-Ticket boys, Judge Arthur b. Stone of the Middlesex Court, was in rare form. Of the 72 Harvard students who came to bat, he retired every man. Umpiring his own game, Judge Stone slapped fines of three to five dollars on each of the opposing players...
...have for a political foe. In 1928 he delivered Mississippi to Al Smith 5-to-1, "me a Baptist, a dry and a Ku Klux Klansman," largely by this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert if he had quit beating his wife...
...reliables hold their places on the counters beside the cash registers: Nestle's almond & milk chocolate bars, Sweets Co. of America's Tootsie Roll, D. L. Clark's Clark Bar (famed in the South and Midwest), Peter Paul, Inc. of Connecticut's Mound (coconut) and Mason, Au & Magenheimer's Peaks and Mason mints. Black Crows is weathering the general slump in licorice which almost no one eats after the age of 12. Remote from the bar ballyhoo are the makers of candy in bulk and in boxes: Chicago's Bunte Bros., E. J. Brach...
...That shot the New Yorkers up from a .500 average to a .600, good enough for third place. In the meantime Cornell was holding its position at the top of the League by defeating Yale 7-2 at Ithaca. The Eli's bad heavy trouble both on the mound and in the infield. Pennsylvania completed the afternoon by adding, a 5-1 trouncing to Princeton to this list of victories...
...runs were what spelled the 11-4 defeat for the Varsity against Holy Cross on Saturday. It was the first time this year that Captain Eddie Loughlin has cased up in his pitching, and the result shows what a potent factor in keeping the Mitchellmen in the running his mound work has been...