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...tomorrow's deadline for the 25-player limit the Mt. Auburn Clowns last night sent 23 1/2 players to the Wingashee Beach-combers of the Coast League in return for veteran 92-year-old manger Cornelius "Connie" Mack-U, who has come out of retirement for today's titanic tiff with D. C. D. Rogers Hahnsby's Rampaging Red-Eds. With only nine players left on his squad, Mack-U still voiced confidence last night. "We'll be like the old Gag-House Gang," he gurgled gleefully, "with such fleet-feet as rookie George Washington Flagg...
...jinxed Eddie Stanky (fined $50 for a tiff with Umpire Scotty Robb) before your cover story on the Cardinal manager hit the streets...
...current tiff between the NCAA and the Educational Council over the seven-point program issued Saturday has no theoretical bearing on Harvard's stand on sports policies. The Ivy Group has been considering banning out-of-season sports ever since Yale announced its dropping of spring football, and the Ivies can make their own conference rules as strict as they want. Bowl game appearances, for example, have long been prohibited to Ivy Group schools...
DeGuglielmo in the fall of 1950 defended the Lampoon in its court tiff with Cambridge police...
...Dearborn (pop. 94,530), on the western edge of Detroit, irrepressible Orville L. ("Little Orvie") Hubbard has managed to obey almost every impulse that has popped into his head. It has not always led to the happiest results. His wife, for instance, once complained publicly that in a domestic tiff he had belabored her with a blackjack. The sheriff of Wayne County tried to jug him for not paying a $7,500 libel judgment, thus forcing him to set up a temporary government in exile at Windsor, Ont. (TIME, Aug. 21). And finally, a recall group began working...