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...Louis; Manager Gabby Hartnett who, knowing Dizzy Dean's love for dramatic spots, smartly selected him to pitch the crucial game, then next day socked the homer that put the Cubs in first place; and Owner Philip K. Wrigley, who selected Go-getter Hartnett as the necessary sparkplug to win this year's pennant...
...director of the A. B. C. L. and its sparkplug since Mrs. Margaret Sanger (mother of two) took to the international field, is Mrs. Allison Pierce Moore (mother of three). Mrs. Moore was agitated about the Massachusetts police who raided and closed clinics in Salem last July. That case comes up for appeal this month, and Mrs. Moore opened for the defense by declaring: "The historian of the future may record for 1937-first, great advances from the standpoint of health and eugenics; second, that in Salem, Mass, a backward step was taken, reminding us of the witch burnings...
...Chief Surgeon Raymond Jesup Garbutt of the S. P. C. A. demonstrated a new bloodless way which he has invented to retrieve canine inedibles. Thrusting a 36-in. forceps down the throat of a bull terrier, Dr. Garbutt removed successively an 8-oz. lead sinker, a wrist watch, a sparkplug, a pair of dice...
Vernon Struck, sparkplug of the Harvard five, was sick yesterday and absent from practice. It has not yet been decided whether he will be able to make the trip today...
Beaten by Army, Michigan, Dartmouth and Holy Cross, Harvard came back against a Yale team, which, in spite of its early promise, turned out to be merely a team against which other teams could make comebacks. Albie Booth, Yale's much-publicized sparkplug quarterback, was stopped in his little tracks every time he hit the line. Harvard could not gain with a running game either, but Barry Wood's punts were longer than Booth's and Captain Ben Ticknor made decisive tackles. Twice Wood dropped back and sent long flat passes to Huguley for the scores that...