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...Digging Me, Daddy?" Author Ellison's Harlem scenes are done with dash and flavor, and the lingo is right: "Well, git with it! ... You digging me, daddy? Haw, but look me up sometimes, I'm a piano player and a rounder, a whisky drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book...
Icko Iben, the 147-pounder, was the only other victor for the Crimson last week, winning a gruelling 15-13 contest. At 157, Chick Chandler has wrestled well, but has been coming up against some very difficult opposition. Today's match should be no exception...
Lack of a 130-pounder cost the Yardlings a victory against Exeter raining their perfect record up till then...
Walking Delegate. Big Bill Hutcheson first swaggered out of the Michigan woods in 1902 to join up with the old A.F.L. carpenters' union and go to work in nearby Midland at 20? an hour. A bull-shouldered 220-pounder, he soon bruised and fought his way into local prominence, four years later got a job as walking delegate, or business agent, of the carpenters' local. His full-time job was to patrol building jobs, call strikes when necessary and keep a sharp watch on employers. He also kept a sharp watch on union politics, got himself named...
With the Purple ahead 13 to 8, the next three matches provided a couple of injuries. Failure of the Williams 167-pounder to make the weight gave the Crimson a gift of five points: The match was held as an exhibition, and Joe Hubbard sprained his neck when he held a neck bridge for 40 seconds to avoid...