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Experts think it is some kind of cribbage game. It consists of a smooth board, about nine inches square, set inside an intricately carved frame. On the inner surface 49 holes have been bored and around the center one there is a double ring resembling a child's drawing of a circular road...
...just before the bell. Corbett won the seventh but the eighth was even; Fields came on again in the ninth and had a chance to keep his title by a strong finish. There was one exchange in which both men stood still in the centre of the ring, trading punches with mathematical fairness; the round ended in the pattern of the fight, Fields charging in, Corbett punching. When the bell rang, Referee Kennedy took the title to Corbett's corner...
...boxing championship,* Raffaele Giordano chose his pseudonym 13 years ago when, a newsboy who learned boxing in street fights, he was matched against a newsboy named Jeffries. James J. Corbett's brother ran a pool room; Raffaele Giordano bought his father a pool room out of his ring earnings, bought himself a service station when, after beating Young Jack Thompson in an overweight match, it began to seem likely that no welterweight champion would dare share a ring with...
Irvin S. Cobb paid for his memorable appendectomy many times over with the book he wrote about it: Speaking of Operations. Ring Lardner discovered last spring that the tedium of a sickbed could be profitably relieved by writing a radio colyum for the New Yorker, datelined "No Visitors, N. Y." Last week U. S. readers of the London Evening Standard perceived how an anonymous staffwriter aided by square-faced David Low, peerless New Zealand-born caricaturist, had made amusing copy out of Britain's influenza epidemic. The writer was personified as "the celebrated journalist Mr. Terry," a character assumed...
...MYSTERY OF MR. CROSS-Clifton Robbins-Appleton ($2). Murder flaunted in Investigator Harrison's face spurs deduction to break up an international crime ring...