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Stones; Shoes; Strikes. Jerome Herman Dean was born in Holdenville, Okla. in 1911. His father was an impoverished junkman and cotton picker. His mother died when he was 4. Jerome Dean began pitching to his brother, two years his junior, with a ball made out of yarn wrapped around a stone. He threw stones at squirrels until his aim was deadly. By the time he was 12, he was invited to pitch for the baseball team of a nearby high school which, because he had left grammar school after the fourth grade, he was too ignorant to attend...
...year, wrestles five nights a week in different cities. He banks his earnings in St. Louis, rents a house there for his library of 1,000 volumes, trophies which include a world's championship belt showing the history of wrestling in twelve plaques. Son of a Greek olive picker, Champion Londos was born near Athens in 1898. He got his nickname in 1915 from a San Francisco sportswriter friend who admired Jack London. He takes singing lessons, smokes a corncob pipe, speaks good English in a squeaky tenor...
Grinned Plum-Picker Hurja: "That sort of leaves me out in the cold as far as personnel is concerned...
...Champion Londos is one of 13 offspring of a Greek olive picker. He got his nickname, for purposes of abbreviation, from a sportswriter who admired Author Jack London, when he started his wrestling career in San Francisco 17 years ago. During the winter, Champion Londos wrestles three times a week, makes about $250,000 a year. This season he has defended his title 207 times. He lives in St. Louis, eats enormously, maintains a library of 1,200 volumes, takes singing lessons, smokes a corncob pipe...
...Springfield 5, Harvard 1. Goals--Roberts 2, Owens, Dagostino, Mathew, Broadbent, Referee--Howarth. Linesman--Eaton, Shea. Time--Four 22-minute periods. HARVARD FRESHMEN EXETER England, g. g., Hecht Coleman, l.f.b. r.f.b., Joyce Irving, r.f.b. l.f.b., Harrison, Harding Kingsley, l.h.b. r.h.b., Wilson McGoodwin, c.h.b. c.h.b., Powel Fuess, Wemple, r.h.b. l.h.b., Picker Robbins, l.o.f. r.o.f., Parsons, Davison Grover, l.i.f. r.i.f., Larkin Stork, c.f. c.f., Perry Gaggin, Reed, r.i.f. l.i.f., Van Stone Clos, Vroom, r.o.f. l.o.f., Stone...