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Meeting in Manhattan last week, the National League's club-owners remorsefully accepted his resignation, created for him the position of chairman of the board. Chosen as his successor was brisk young Ford Christopher Frick, who last February resigned as sportswriter on the New York Evening Journal to be the National League's director of publicity...
Last week, after another week's delay caused by storms, the two flyers left Honolulu, sped swiftly to the U. S. on the wings of a brisk tailwind. They reached Oakland in less than 15 hours, two hours ahead of schedule. Kingsford-Smith poked his grease-smudged face out of the cockpit and grinned: "I'm sorry to be so early. . . . I've got the best airplane in the world...
...auction in Paris last week came a rusty, mildewed guillotine certified to have cut off more than 1,000 aristocratic heads during the French Revolution. After brisk bidding it was knocked down for 30,000 francs ($1,980) to a buyer who refused to give his name. Reporters thought they recognized the owner of a brothel which boasts that its "torture room" is the most authentically equipped in Paris...
...buildings on Main Street. Finally the young man and his Ford reached Charleston, S. C. where the harbor water lay flat and blue. The thing he liked most in Charleston was the German cruiser Emden which one day steamed into port, made fast to a wharf. Mornings he watched brisk German sailors in white gymnasium suits doing setting-up exercises on the warship's decks. Finally after a good long look, he started North toward Manhattan and his Connecticut home...
...return bout to a fighter who had previously defeated him, a crowd of 25,000 watched Ross flick harmless, showy punches at McLarnin's left eye, while McLarnin waited for the chance, which Ross was too clever to give him, to use his devastating right hand. After fifteen brisk but ineffective rounds, Ross walked to his corner, Mc Larnin turned the handspring with which, if he is able to move at the end of a fight, he invariably expresses his conviction that he has won. The judges cast conflicting votes. Referee Donovan agreed with McLarnin, gave him the decision...