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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inheritor last January of $1,000,000, most of which "slipped through my fingers like quicksilver," Geraldine Spreckels Spreckels, 21-year-old great-granddaughter of the late rich Sugar Tycoon Claus Spreckels, signed a Warner Brothers contract as a feature player, hopes to play second lead to Bette Davis in Warners' forthcoming Jezebel. Cinemactress Spreckels is currently separated from her Cousin-Husband Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., whose third wife she is. Not to be confused with many & many another Spreckels kin, she will act under the name of Anna Johns...
Handicapping U. S. polo players started in 1888, twelve years after Publisher James Gordon Bennett brought polo from England as a pastime for his wealthy friends, and two years before eight teams of moneyed Easterners got together and formed the U. S. Polo Association. Some of the best of the association's 86 member clubs are in the West, but until this year the East has had complete control of U. S. polo. When Robert Early Strawbridge Jr., a seven-goal player, son of the vice president of Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier department store, became chairman...
Last year when Yale's Larry Kelley sighed, "Gee, I'm sorry my career is over," he echoed the adolescent sentiments of many another young man who becomes a famed college football player, cashes in his reputation for a job upon graduation, then spends the rest of his life remembering his "great days." Such a one is Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfinger. a Minneapolis boy who played guard for Yale and was on Walter Camp's original All-America football teams of 1889-90-91. After graduation Pudge Heffelfinger played a little professional football, coached at the University...
...guards will be Charlie Miller and Jack Castle, Junior and Senior veterans, the one small, the other big. Frank Gallagher, a veteran of two seasons ago but ineligible last year, will be at center. He is a brilliant defensive player...
...Princeton game Yale disregarded the mud and wind to roll over the Tigers for 300 yards without throwing a forward pass. Frank scored on the first play to become the first Big Three player to accomplish that feat in a Yale-Harvard-Princeton fame...