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Vicount Grey in his younger days was a tennis player of no mean repute. In 1896 he lifted the M. C. C. and Queen's Club tennis prize. His recreative moments in his later years have been, however, more taken up with flyfishing, a sport of which he has always been fond...
Like Glenna Collett, pensive golfer, Helen masks her competitive ardors with a sphinxlike countenance. Sport writers have dubbed her "Poker Face." Also like Glenna, she has the wrist and forearm of a strongish...
...Greater local pride and booster spirit." (Said he: "The booster spirit of the Far West is familiar to everyone." ) 2) "Greater attention to school news." 3) "Higher subscription prices." That the West learn from the East: 1) "More attention to the man who writes to the papers" (i.e., cinema, sport, health, politics, joke fans.) 2) " Better sporting departments." 3) "Better first pages." 4) "Snappier news and editorial writing." The writer then closed, mellifluously: "Papers everywhere are splendidly good." There are, obviously, exceptions to the rules thus laid down. What newspaper, save the Chicago Tribune, could "boost" its home town with...
...brilliantly illuminated platform in the centre of a gloom-filled amphitheatre. At Griffin's gesture, pandemonium burst from the darkness on all sides. Some 40,000 throats concatenated anger and approval but none save the fighters knew certainly whether a foul blow had been struck. A majority of sport experts, craning from the ringside, exonerated Tunney, credited him with a technical knockout. The public, too, exonerated Tunney, persuaded by his conduct throughout the fight that he was incapable of low action. From the moment Carpentier first sprang at him, with back arched, on cat-like toes, Tunney fought like...
...donated 18,000,000 francs ($900,000) to various French causes." Tyrus R. Cobb, Manager of the Detroit American League Baseball Club: "In a newspaper interview at Toronto, I repeated that next year I shall not play regularly with my team, advocated baseball as a British national sport. Said I: 'If I had my time over again, I would probably be a surgeon instead of a baseball player. ... I shall not have done any real good to humanity when I retire. I suppose everybody will have forgotten me in a few years' time...