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...after Samuel Gompers was laid in his grave in Tarrytown, N. Y. in 1924, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor announced his successor as chief of U. S. Labor: William Green. No one was more surprised than inconspicuous Mr. Green. Old Cigarmaker Gompers, who regarded the A. F. of L. as his own personal property, had willed the job to Matthew Woll, head of the little Photo Engravers Union. But having grown restive under long Gompers rule, the individualistic members of the A. F. of L. high command were in no mood to honor the cigarmaker...
Below is the roster of Freshman football players who reported last week: NAMEAge Wt, Ht. Prep. School Town ENDS Butler, George P 18 153 5.11 Romford Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Corcoran, William J. 17 180 6. Cambridge High Cambridge Coughlan, Joseph J. 17 140 6.1 Cambridge Latin Cambridge Dodge, Henry W. 20 150 6. Exeter Omaha, Neb. Glidden, John C. 19 170 5.11 Exeter Englewood, N. J. Haydock, George G. 18 175 6.2 Milton Hewlett, N. Y. Herter, Christian A. Jr. 18 190 6.5 St. Paul's Boston Hinton, William H. 18 168 6.2 Putney School Putney, Vt. Hurley, Morris...
...Tillis, of New Rochelle, N. Y., has been appointed Freshman end coach. Tillis graduated from Amherst in 1933 where he played an end on the Varsity football team for three years. He is at present enrolled in the Business School...
...extant.* Others: the 72 bells of the University of Chicago Chapel; the Baird Carillon at the University of Michigan; the Bok Carillon in Mountain Lake, Fla.; the 53 bells of the Peace Tower of Canada's Parliament Building in Ottawa. Last week small Alfred University in Alfred, N. Y. inaugurated a carillon of 35 bells which it claimed was the oldest in North America...
...Price Headley's Menow; the Champagne Stakes, last warm-up race for two-year-olds before the Belmont Futurity; at Belmont Park, N. Y. Mrs. Ethel Mars' Sky Larking, even-money favorite and generally rated the most promising two-year-old of the season, stumbled while leading the field, broke a leg and was destroyed...