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...them will stay under the tutelage of that Southern Gentleman--some are bound for bigger and better things, and are Varsity timber. At the last accounting, four June Yardlings had been awarded Red Jerseys, the symbol of pigskin excellence, by the coaches, and were officially in the major league...
...even bothering to campaign. When 1944 rolls around, he will be a ready-made Presidential candidate. With the paternal blessings of Herbert Hoover and Alf Landon, and with support from Westbrook Pegler, the nation's most widely read columnist, Dewey will be the most seasoned piece of 1944 Republican timber...
Snake Sutton is a hard-muscled, sensitive, moral dimwit who climbs, tooth & nail, from social dereliction (a childhood among swamp Negroes) to the throat-cutting peak of local business and society (a timber firm of his own, a blueblood marriage). Then he goes back again. On the way up, he has an affair with a bordello keeper (part real, part Hollywood) and a fascinating raftsman's apprenticeship to a gigantic veteran of the rivers. He is the center, also, of some superb fights, crooked and raw deals, and river adventures...
...obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time a cadet is ready to graduate, he must be able to finish this course in four minutes flat. At North Carolina one fledgling has already done...
That solitary score, so lightly donated and accepted when the game was young, loomed larger and larger as the opposing hurlers proceeded to flaunt their wares to the grief of the timber wielders of both lineups. Neither before nor after the fatal third was either team able to put together two hits. During the remaining six frames Berg, displaying his customary good control, set the Brown men down with three unspectacular hits. But his teammates, over-anxious and inclined to fish for bad balls, could do nothing with Nichols' crafty spot-pitching...