The Washington herald., 1913-01-08
flynn ISLOST
TO old YALE:
Famous Football and Diamond
Star Marries Show Girl
and Quits College.
HE WILL ENTER BUSINESS
Lefty" Obtains Parental Blessing.
Bride Formerly in Chorus of
Broadway to Paris"
HE WILL ENTER BUSINESS

New York, Jan. 7.-when Maurice Ben
nett Flynn. the big left-footed kicker of
the Yale football team, known as Lefty, :"
and his wife, Irene Claire, a winter gar
den show girl. received the news to-day
that by eloping Lefty" automatically
severed himself from Yale. they united
in long and healthy laugh and made
remarks to the effect that such mes
sages would not have the effect Of
driving them to drink.
Irene Claire's real name Is Leary. She
Is the daughter OF Cornelius Leary, a
cab driver in Holyoke. Mass. Her moth
er died three years ago. after an acci-
dent, In which she was terribly burned.
Shortly afterward the girl came TO New
York. She is a graduate of Smith Col
lege, and obtained a place in "'Our Miss
Gibbs" She has been with the Winter
ter Garden ever since 1t opened.
Previous to her taking up her abode
at West Eighty-siSkh Street, she lived
at the Hotel Frederick.
When Lefty put his extraordinary
length of arm around his brides ample
shoulders, big as he is, his bride did
not have to elevate her eyes very much
to look into his face. Any declaration
of love by either of them would have
been superfiuous.
They are very comfortably quartered
at West Eighty-sixth Street. Ac-
cording to young Flynn. his father, Jo-
seph A. Flynn, received him at his. Of
fee in Rector Street, and a fulsome
parental blessing was forthcoming.
Il am not returning to college," said
Lefty" 1T is not against the law at
Sheffield Scientific School to marry while
one is a student, but Director Chitten-
den says our marriage is one that Yale
cannot accept as regular. I had no in
tention of returning anyway. Mrs.
Flynn and 1 shall leave in a day or so
for a honeymoon of three or four weeks
and then / shall enter business. Per-
haps shall enter my fathers ONCE"
Bride Refuses to Talk.
Mrs Flynn would say but little. She
said that she couldn't see what there
was to say. She was parried. and she
married because she was in love. Was
there anything odd about that? Her
future plans? Her plans were those
adopted by Lefty She had no in
and was never happier in her twenty
three years of life. b.
Mrs. Lefty is one of the most. statu-
esque of brunettes. She was one of the
most popular units of the Broadway to
Paris show and had a two-line speak
ing part in the "whirl of Society al
the Winter Garden. Where when. and
under what circumstances the two met
they declined to say, but from the Winter
Garden comes the tale that once Lefty
sat in a box and Miss Claire trailed
across the stage with a red rose IN her
hair. That was ALL Lefty bucked the
line of Miss Claire's multitude of ad-
mirers and won the game right then
and there.
Prof" Russell II. Chittenden, director
of the Sheffield School at Yale. declared
fatty to-day that although there Were
more than a dozen married men on the
rolls at the Sheffield school, including
S. F. Guggenheim. son of one of the
Colorado mine owners and smelters
Flynn would be barred.
Yale Bars Lefty"
I'VE do not prohibit marriage under
certain conditions" said Prof. Chittenden
"If a mans parents are heard from
| there is nothing to prevent his being
married and remaining in the school. but
a marriage under such conditions a:
Flynn is purported to have made is not
the same. Men have married during
their college course. Mr.. Guggenheim
| for instance, was married at the begin
ming of his senior year and took a house
in Whitney Avenue. That was quite reg
ular. but We cannot condone Flynn's
methods
This of course, is to be a blow tc
Yale's football and baseball prospects fol
| the coming season, but young Flynn
when this was mentioned, said that Yale
had enjoyed the prowess OF Flynns, Ho
gans, and Raffertys before, and that nc
doubt another good Irish name would bt
added to the team before fall practice
was called