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HERE'S AUDACITY ! - Frank Shay-Macaulay...
...myth-conscious? Not by a long shot, not by many generations. But national-myth-lovers feel a lack, wish to hurry a natural process and supply some U. S. legends readymade. Here is Frank Shay's gallant attempt. He has gathered (and perhaps embroidered) yarns about ten mythical U. S. heroes. Says he: "Their achievements are exaggerations. Their sagas are tales of the impossible. They are as American as our national weakness for boasting. They are, after all, ourselves as we might wish to be." Among Shay's figures...
...singles race yesterday, the winner was Russell Codman. Gerald Shay, P. C. Reardon '32, and J. S. Frame 1G were respectively, first, second, and third. The winner covered the mile course in 6 minutes, 37 1-2 seconds, coming in four and a half lengths ahead. The doubles event was won by A. B. Cassedy and J. P. Trumball, in a time of 6 minutes, 14 seconds. W. K. Sturges '31 and S. E. Codman '31 were second...
...left hook, his ability to take punishment, began to win him a more than local reputation. No ring-general, Coke took his orders for each fight from Regan. When he knocked out Prince Pearl, shifty Negro boxer, he hoped it would give him a chance to meet Champion Mike Shay. When the fight finally took place it was a near thing: Mike floored Coke once, had him groggy, but Coke outlasted him, won by a knockout...
Docket number 83 is the Marshall Club (Leggett, Shay) versus the Fultton Club (FitzGerald, Monahan). The meeting will be at Phillips Brooks House with W. D. Johnson 3L as chief justice...