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s-s-sGrover Cleveland Alexander, pitching: hero of the 1927 world series has signed ,to pitch for the House of Davids for 1931—wonder how he’ll look in a bunch of shag*-gy whiskers. Old Dame Rumor has it that Jack Dempsey will fight again for 500,000 greenbacks—his self-selected opponent would be Camera—Jack had better hurry up, Camera will be hard to beat when he has absorbed a little more of ,the technique of boxing. If the University of Iowa baseball team can make expenses the university officials will allow them to make their usual southern trip this spring. Orient H. wrestling! ,team defeated Valley Junction 30 to 20—every bout except the heavyweight, which was forfieted, was won by a fall. A British observer of American football says that tlie game is slow and dull and so full of technicalities that men with tape measures follow the referee about the field—it was admitted that the famous English game ofcricket was equally puzzling XoAmericans.
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The Cornellian
Mount Vernon, Iowa, US
Tue, Jan 27, 1931
Page 3
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Michael W.
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