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...Rassi, taxicab chauffeur, and James Hughes, onetime pugilist. Their motive in killing Brennan was obscure; it was thought that it had something to do with bootlegging. "Bill" Brennan, aged 31, became famed when he stood up to Jack Dempsey at Madison Square Garden for 12 rounds in 1920, a feat which he repeated against Luis Angel Firgo at the same place last year. He was, however, never considered a front-ranker in the fistic world and retired after his disastrous fight last Fall with "Billy" Miske (now dead), when he was knocked out in the fourth round...
...round of the tourney was played in a high wind, a fact which accounted for the higher scores over opening day figures. On the opening day young Miss Collett's score of 76 was only two strokes over the men's par for the course - no mean feat in itself. But her excellent golf was knocked to pieces the following day, mainly on account of the wind. Even at that she led head and should ers above the field of contenders...
...oarsmen working out on the Thames. In commenting on the mile and a quarter race at Philadelphia, which Yale won by three-quarters of a length from the Navy Officers, Coach Stevens tonight told the CRIMSON'S representative at Red Top that the Yale crew had performed a marvelous feat...
...have gone to three games When the University lines up against Princeton tomorrow afternoon at Fenway Park it will be in much the same situation as was the 1919 team. With the odds in favor of the Tiger nine again, Spalding will try to duplicate the feat of W. B. Felton '19, who startled the baseball world by allowing the Princeton team only two hits...
...this compromise was well described by Oswald Garrison Villard in his Some Newspapers and Newspapermen*. The Star adopted the formal tactics of its commercial competitors?screaming headlines, comic strips, subscription premiums. By these methods its business managers tried to gain circulation, and they got perhaps 60,000?no mean feat. But it went further in its compromises; it toned down the vigor of its editorials. It was no longer a piping hot radical? it was still a radical, but a mealy-mouthed radical. By this means it hoped to gain advertising. It succeeded in part. Business began to bring some...