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...Russian Ukraine, the son of a Jewish school teacher, Alex Gumberg migrated to the U. S. by himself at 15, became a licensed pharmacist. But he kept in touch with Bolshevik doings and returned to Russia after the Kerensky revolution. There he met, through William Boyce Thompson, Colonel Raymond Robin, head of the American Red Cross mission. In those troubled times Mr. Thompson could get no meat for his wolfhound. Gumberg got it., He became confidential agent for the Red Cross. Through the Red Cross he formed his enduring friendship with Judge Thacher and the late great Morgan Partner Dwight...
...three tennis players who, along with Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, and John Palfrey of Harvard, will go abroad this summer to compete in the tournament with the Oxford-Cambridge team. Captain Gordy Campbell of the Elis rated one of the three Yale places immediately, but a round robin tournament had to be held to determine the remaining two places...
...classiest ball players in the League. Smooth-working Carr barely gets the nod over hard-hitting Lyford for the post, but the latter is ton good a ballplayer to be omitted from the lineup. Therefore, Lyford goes over to third to edge out a fast-improving teammate, Bellboy Robin Scully, by the slimmest of margins. Scully's stickwork was weak until the last few games of the year but then he came up with a bang...
...game culminated a two week round-robin fight for the Yearling dormitory title in which the whole Yard participated...
Lowell's hitting stars of the game were Robin Scully, Joe Lyford, and Wally Liverance. Center fielder Mel Gordon shone defensively...