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...RETURN OF FRANK CLAMART ? Henry C. Rowland ? Harper ($1.90). 'Frank Clamart's visiting card should read, "Virtuous Assas-sinations?Singly or by the Dozens ?No Reduction Made for Quantity. " A master-criminal, reformed and now crusading against an international dope ring and murder syndicate, he extinguishes evildoers with nonchalance and celerity. His friend, Shane Emmet, a cartoonist with a camera-eye, assists his adventurous labor with blackjack, revolver and sketchbook, and strings along two high-speed love affairs the interim. When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives...
Georges Carpentier: " I announced that after my return fight with Battling Siki on September 16, I shall retire from the ring-win or lose...
Jack Dempsey: " I set up my training camp for my fight with Gibbons at Great Falls, Mont., on the site of the first brewery established there. Its picturesque ruins are beside my training ring...
Among the Pulitzer prizes awarded annually is one of $1,000 for the "best reportorial work of the year"-the tests being accuracy, terseness and " the accomplishment of some public good." The prizes were recently awarded for 1922. The " best reporter," however, did not expose a great graft ring, did not describe a great national catastrophe, did not report a momentous political event, made no great " scoop." What he reported was a convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Cambridge, Mass, (last December). The man was Alva Johnston, then with The New York Times, now with...
Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City. He will stage the bout in the Jersey ring on June...