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Philadelphia's prize rookie (he gets the standard rookie salary: $5,000 a year) is wholly unlike the Ring Lardner version. A lithe 170-pounder, Richie is well-dressed, polite and as serious about baseball as he is about most other things. On the road, he goes to a lot of movies and lounges in hotel lobbies, like other ballplayers, staring idly at passersby. He neither smokes nor drinks (about three bottles of beer a year don't count...
...tall, good-looking wife, his son Fernand (who served in the British navy) and his two younger daughters. He used to be an inveterate tennis player, once was tactless enough to beat King Gustaf of Sweden ("Am I a courtier? I am a Socialist!"). Lately Spaak (a 200-pounder) has given up the sport, presumably haunted by the memory of his belt giving way on a Brussels court...
First event on the 8 o'clock program will be a wrestling exhibition between Harvard 165-pounder Donald Louria and M.I.T. captain Whit Mauzy, whom Louria edged this winter, 4 to 3. Fencers Neil McNeil and Bill Raney will put on foil and sabre exhibitions with M.I.T.'s Mario Abbatte and Frank Kellogg...
...Quincy A.A.U. affair, Don Louria, Varsity 165-pounder, took the 175-pound class, while Dave Smith, Freshman star, took the 128-pound class. Varsity wrestler Dan Ray lost a referee's decision in the finals of the 145-pound class, and Howie Schless, Freshman coach, lost in the semis of the 121-pound division. John Chafee 1L lost in the finals of the 155-pound class...
Just what the condition of 'Eastern wrestling is, and where Harvard therefore stands, was clarified when John Fictcher, Navy 145-pounder, took the outstanding-wrestler-of-the meet award. After winning the same distraction last year, Fletcher entered the National championships which Western boys are allowed to enter and got only as far as third place where he was soundly beston...