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...Abbott, Maurice James McCarthy, Annie Riley Hale, Robert Pierce Shuler, Justus S. Wardell, William Gibbs McAdoo. Abbott and McCarthy are irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith who still think this is 1928. The candidacy of Mrs. Hale (Colyumist Heywood Broun's mother-in-law) is not taken seriously. ''Bob" Shuler, a radio revivalist, is a political maverick who is also running in the Republican primary. The real race appeared to be between Mr. Wardell, who managed Governor Roosevelt's unsuccessful preconvention campaign in California and Mr. McAdoo who swung the votes at the Chicago convention that nominated Roosevelt. As each...
Relays. Californians were appalled when Frank Wykoff of Southern California, Bob Kiesel of the University of California and Hector Dyer of the Los Angeles A. C. were shut out by Tolan, Metcalfe and George Simpson in the Olympic trials. With Emmett Toppino of New Orleans, Wykoff, Kiesel and Dyer formed a "goat" relay team which last week set an incredibly fast world's record (40 sec.) in the 400-metre final, with Germany second. In the 1,600-metre relay Bill Carr led in the British anchor man, Lieut. Godfrey Rampling, by 20 yd. The world's record...
Governor Nielsen's "most thoughtful act," wirelessed Mrs. Stafford to the New York Times last week, "was to lend us as interpreter and guide, old Inughito, who had been mess boy on the Roosevelt with Admiral Peary during her last winter at Cape Sheridan. The meeting between Captain Bob and this faithful native of the old days was a most touching one, as the two men flung their arms about each other in a welcome that came from their hearts...
...transporting of the heavy loads of material up the side of the mountain through wind, rain and the heartbreaking drag of the slush and melting ice calls for hard work and lots of it. . . . Captain Bob Bartlett. . . is on the job all day long, encouraging, joking with them and occasionally rewarding them with a cup of coffee or sugar or tobacco...
Died. Thomas Carroll, 78, oldtime fight trainer and athlete; after a brief illness; in Oakland. Calif. Among those he trained: James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, James J. Jeffries, the late Bob Fitzsimmons...