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...autobiography in Cottier's, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney wrote of meeting Jack Dempsey in the ring before the start of their 1926 championship fight in Philadelphia. "I said, 'Hello, Champion." He answered, 'Hello, Gene.' 'May the better man win,' I said. 'Yeh-yeh,' he muttered as he went to his corner." After dodging and feinting to make Dempsey think he was afraid, Tunney finally found his opening and "with everything I had in my right hand hit Jack on the cheekbone. Shucks, too high for a knockout." In the sixth round Dempsey...
...dullest bush-leaguer who figured in the baseball fiction of Ring Lardner had been much more rustic and addle-headed, he would have been very much like Floyd ("Babe"') Herman, outfielder for the Brooklyn Robins since 1927. Herman is celebrated for allowing fly-balls to drop on his head, for transforming a homerun into a triple play (by passing two other base-runners), for carrying a lighted cigar in his pocket. But, because he is a powerful batter and at times a competent fielder, he is by no means a liability to his team. Last week Babe Herman...
...Coffman foretold many uses for his felt-steel roofing and sidings for buildings, pipe lining, paneling, fireproofing. When struck the material does not ring like steel, an advantage in a decibel-conscious...
...sole purpose of endowing them with such delightful devices, and pretty soon the only thing that remains is a rather soiled sheet with some charcoaled smears. Perhaps not the only thing for the girl next door may hide under her pillow at night the sacred horseshoe nail ring, the talisman of the clan...
Following the arrest of a ring of book thieves in New York who were operating on the University Library and had taken rare books to the amount of $40,000. Library officials report that there has been a noticeable rise in the number of missing books which were secretly returned to the Library...