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...been closer to a horse than the bettors' booths on a race track. Just the same, the western he was reading had its points of similarity with his own situation. Ted Schroeder would be his sawed-off sidekick, of course, and they sure would put those varmints to rout, just like in the book...
...three columns advancing against an encampment of thousands of Sioux Indians at the Little Big Horn, he was assigned to a scouting expedition. Instead of joining the other columns before attacking, as ordered, Custer decided to redeem himself and win undying glory by putting the Indian horde to rout alone and unaided. Custer's attack, Dr. Hawley implies, was one of the worst-botched jobs in the annals of Indian warfare. The General split his small force (600 men of the 7th Cavalry) into three parts, failed to reconnoiter the terrain, advanced to attack in broad daylight, was surprised...
...Sammy swung at the ball. There was a cloud of sand but he had missed the ball; it rolled feebly to the edge of a sand trap. Sammy swung again. The ball plunked to the edge of a trap on the opposite side of the green. To cap his rout, he missed a one-foot putt...
...game develops into a rout--and no such speculation can be made this early in the season--Samborski will probably substitute freely, especially in the outfield, where three newcomers to the squad--Leo Flynn, Bob Copaccio, and Bucky Harrison--were issued uniforms earlier in the week...
...Dennis' real name was well known to investigators. Born Francis Eugene Waldron in Seattle in 1905, he has used at least six aliases. As Frank Waldron he was arrested six times in five months during the stormy winter of 1929-30 in Los Angeles. Convicted of attempting to "rout" (a shade less serious than riot), he had jumped bail. At one time he had received a passport under the name of Paul Walsh...