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...meeting last night of the men who shot against Yale, Brendon Dempsey Leahey '26 of Lowell, was elected captain of the University rifle team for next year. Leahey was one of the best marksmen on last year's Freshman team and one of thee highest scorers in league matches this year for the University riflemen...
...Coach Dempsey has been forced to keep the Freshman squad in the cage all week because the University team has been usurping the Freshman Field. However, if Ground-Keeper Dennis Enwright's predictions come true, the Second Team field will be in good condition Monday and the 1927 players are hoping to begin their outside work then. Coach Dempsey has four more days of practice before his first game than the University team but even at that he will find it no easy task to sort out the best possible combination before that date...
When Dr. Straton was offered the opportunity to attend the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, and write his impression for a news agency which guaranteed not to cut his article, and to give it circulation in over 600 daily newspapers, he saw an opportunity to preach a sermon. His report of that encounter was widely read, and provoked national comment, for among the charges he brought against the exhibition were that it was founded on fraud and dishonesty, and that it was similar to the gladitorial fights which debauched the Romans and ruined Rome...
...Means asserted: 1) that he had received for Jesse Smith $100,000 in cash from a representative of Mitsui Co., Japanese bankers, in connection with a War contract case with the Standard Aircraft Corporation; 2) that he had received, also on Smith's behalf, various sums from the Dempsey-Carpentier fight film affair; 3) that he had tried "to get something" on Senators; La Follette and Caraway; 4) that President Harding had ordered that he investigate Secretary Mellon in regard to liquor withdrawal frauds?"the President wanted that information in regard to him: to catch him, and we caught...
...head of the film company which photographed the Dempsey-Carpentier fight testified that he had paid between $60,000 and $65,000 to three men for alleged protection in taking the fight films out of New Jersey. The three men, he declared, were "Jap" Muma, who represented himself as a friend of the Attorney General, William E. Orr, represented to be a friend of Jesse Smith, and Ike Martin, proprietor of a Cincinnati amusement park...