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Brownie Reid has other troubles besides the Early Bird. In his eagerness to sweep out the cobwebs from the paper (TIME, April 18), he has also swept out much of the paper's oldtime esprit de corps. "In the past year," said one Trib veteran, "there has been complete unrest in the city room." The Trib has been losing many of its top staffers and promising younger newsmen. City Editor Fendall Yerxa quit, to be replaced (TIME, May 30) by hard-boiled Luke Carroll, onetime Trib Chicago correspondent. Close to a dozen other staffers, including John...
DUDLEY: Large turnouts for both football and soccer make the athletic picture at Dudley more encouraging than in past years. The football squad which finished dead last in '54 does not figure to be a world-beater this year, but the appearance of all-star center John Coyne and veteran halfback Gus Harrington on the squad plus the addition of several outstanding freshmen and sophomores to the squad give the Dragons hope of moving up in the standings...
Paul O'Leary a three year veteran will lead an improved Dudley soccer team, while Ken D'Arcy is expected to star for the cross-country squad...
Against this rookie crew, Coach Bruce Munro will field a veteran eleven, of whom eight started regularly last year. Besides Hodnell, the number one center, the front line will boast Hank Holmes at outside left and Bill Lingelbach at outside right. Dick Fisher will play inside right and sophomore Ken McIntosh will start at inside left instead of regular Charlton MacVagh, out with a charleyhorse...
...roughest melee the American League had seen in years. And Casey came home with a team full of trouble. Few teams win a pennant without a first-class shortstop to tighten up their infield, and veteran Phil Rizzuto was five years past his prime, a step too slow in the field, a little too tired to play regularly. Jerry Coleman, who could have filled in, broke his collarbone April 22 and was out for three months. No sooner was he back when he was beaned and bench-ridden again. Often, Casey's pitching was pitiful...