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...would be asked to join the German team next year. Even before the Normandie docked, Mr. Sherrill was handed a letter from the U. S. Committee on Fair Play in Sports, asking him to support the move to withdraw the U. S. from the 1936 Olympics. The blast that Sportsman Sherrill uttered in reply promptly turned the flame into a thoroughgoing conflagration. Said...
While Mr. Harlow will have few of the material aids that have been extended to Mr. Crisler, he is a sportsman and a leader. His personality and his sense of fair play are already undermining the casual attitude of the past but it is a long task. One need only look at this year's Freshman team to see the results of immediate contact with the new regime. Whether or not the rest of the season holds victory in store for him, he will continue to lay the groundwork for future excellence...
...speakers, though representing opposite sides of the issue, have all been in more or less direct contact with Ethiopia: Lieutenant Colonel Francis T. Colby, late Major in the Regular Army and sportsman and traveller; H. E. Signer Daniele Vare, formerly Italian Minister to China and former member of Political Section, League of Nations Secretariat; Peter Koinage, formerly resident of Kenya, South Africa, whose father is a tribal leader of three million people Hiving near the Ethiopian border; Captain G. F. Sherwood, reserve Officer in the British Army who commanded native regiments in the German East African Campaign...
That play, with the score tied, 2-to-2 in the fourth inning at Sportsman's Park St. Louis, one day last week, was the decisive moment of the 1935 major-league baseball season. It won the game (three runs made later were superfluous) for the Chicago Cubs. The game decided the National League pennant race...
...Into the open Atlantic from Bermuda sailed La Dahama, the yacht of Philadelphia Sportsman Albert R. G. Welsh, bound with a captain and crew of three for the Mediterranean. A 55-ft., two-masted auxiliary schooner, she had sailed to Bermuda from the U. S., seemed capable of going anywhere. But last week in midocean a 100-m.p.h. gale swept down upon her, snapped her foremast, pounded her with huge waves, filled her cockpit, flooded her engine, split enormous seams along her keel. Owner Welsh and his crew flew a distress signal, began frantic pumping and bailing...