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What a shortstop is to a pitcher, what a tail is to a kite, what a pin is to a pinwheel -Bill Hawkins is to Roy Howard. In 1906 when Roy Howard, a brash boy wonder two years off the Cincinnati Post, was made New York manager of the brand new Scripps' Publishers' Press Association at $50 a week (which he agreed to plough back for stock), his first appointee was Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years...
...started with the match all even. Thomson finished the first nine two up. Ferrier cut it down to one up at the "Road Hole," the 17th, with a 4 to Thomson's 5. On the 18th green, Thomson's second shot stopped rolling six inches from the pin. Ferrier's stopped 30 feet away. Ferrier nodded, conceded the kind of match that makes old Scotsmen smoke their own tobacco when they tell about...
...Nonsense." Fretful and fidgety grew Dr. Townsend as, on the second day of questioning, committeemen tried to pin him down to the details of his Plan. He conceded that a transactions tax to raise pensions funds would involve the licensing of every farmer, collection of a tax on every sale from a dozen eggs to a bale of cotton. Had he ever pointed that out to his rural followers...
...made the trip to Indianapolis. The tournament, No. 1 event of the year for U. S. bowlers, costs $200,000, of which half is distributed to contestants as prizes. The rest goes for 32 brand-new alleys with colored gutters and chromium chalk-trays, 30,000 brand-new pins, later sold to the highest bidder, salaries to 200 pin-boys and scorekeepers. After five weeks of record attendance, the Congress last week was preparing to adjourn. Doings...
...Onetime Pin-Boy Johnny Murphy of Indianapolis, 21, was leading in the All-Events, with a total score...