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...Louis said yesterday, in reply to John "Ox" DaGrosa's request that he be barred from boxing in his own best interests, "that he would not raise a fuss if he were over barred for failing to measure up to physical requirements...
...neckers, the rolling, spacious (1,900-acre) campus of the University of Wisconsin has always offered a goodly choice for a few hours on the Old Ox Road. Some couples, as the old song records, go up to Observatory Hill,* some to the shore of Lake Mendota; others just scatter. Last week Professor Howard Gill of the sociology department suggested that this phase of campus mores could stand a bit of organizing...
Accompanied by a guitar, he sang "The Illinois Pioneer Song." Sandburg also composed ox empere for his immediate audience...
...empire that Gangster Al Capone had built with the help of the Tommy gun and the dum-dum bullet in the back had a strange air of flaccid respectability in 1950. Marty the Ox died in bed without a single bullet hole in his hide. And in the rare places where the shakedown still prevailed, it was costing a merchant as little as $1 a week to insure his plate-glass windows against a well-heaved brick. The ugly libel was afloat that Chicago had turned sissy and petty larcenous...
Guyda is satisfied with the depth at every position except fullback, but Dave Rogers and Grif Buttrick are showing promise there. They are being pushed by an ox-Taft football player, John Rosenthal, who has never played soccer before. Two goalies will switch at backing up the west defense. George Anderson has both the height and a long throw; Henry Briggs can kick the ball hard and does well directing defensive Strategy...