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...Summary: 400-yard medley relay--won by Harvard; Murray, Stanley, Hammond, and Mischner; second, M.I.T.; Divine, West, Getchell, and Veeck. Time--4:01.8. (breaks pool record). 220-yard freestyle--Won by Seaton (H); second, Ulbrich (H); third, Kohlman (M.I.T.). Time--2:21. 50-yard freestyle--Won by Zemo (H); second, Rose (H); third, Kane (M.I.T.). Time 24.4. 100-yard butterfly--Won by Hammond (H); second, Perilman (H); third, Getchell (M.I.T.). Time--56.4. (breaks pool record). Dive--Won by Gorman (H); second, Stone (H); third, Cahlender (M.I.T.). 78.38 points. 100-yard freestyle--Won by Boeckler (H); second, Cochran (H); third, Windle...
CIRCUS DEAL is brewing between John Ringling North and Sports Promoter Bill Veeck, onetime owner of St. Louis Browns, who wants to keep big top operating by buying North's Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey. Veeck's group reportedly offered $2,500,000 for performers, tents and animals, but North wants more...
...Baltimore interests will pay $2,475,000 for 80% of the Browns stock. Thus, control of the club will be wrested from Bill Veeck, who was so unpopular with the other owners that they let the eight-place Browns stew on until Veeck made way for new chefs...
...Louis, Browns fans (home attendance this year: 311,000) reacted to fresh talk of the club's transfer to another city by belatedly crowding the ballpark, hanging Owner Bill Veeck in effigy. At week's end they heard that the Browns might not move after all; meeting in Manhattan, American League club owners rejected the most likely city, Baltimore, for the second time. ¶ In Boston, the Red Sox's Ted Williams, who returned from Korea too late to be considered for American League batting honors, still managed to hang up a personal record in 37 games...
...Louis, the hapless baseball Browns set an unenviable major-league mark: 20 losses in a row in their home park, breaking the record set by the Boston Red Sox in 1906. Said Browns Owner Bill Veeck, who has been trying to move the Browns' franchise out of St. Louis: "Frankly, I don't know whether the Browns are coming or going...