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...Bank, N., J., sport writers discovered a different scene. In the garage of the Shrewsbury Golf Club, attentively watched by admiring natives, Tunney raced through his work, flew at sparring partners chosen for their speed, appeared to be glorying in every exercise. Critics had said he lacked the "killer instinct." He belied the criticism. Experts had said his left hand would be his greatest asset. He gave promise of justifying the prediction. After the workouts, talk was of golf and real estate, Mr. Tunney's avocations...
...Aigues-Vives, the villagers call him "Gastounet." They celebrated his election to the Presidency with a bullfight, of which sport M. Gaston is a devotee...
...Sims portrait shows Britain's monarch in full regalia, with sceptre and sword, seated on his throne. It idealizes and refines the not-unlined face. It gives His Majesty dainty, tapering legs. It makes the fingers, actually the short, muscular digits of a sport-loving country gentleman, appear long and willowy...
...front page stories of "Bomb's Deadly Work," "Fleeing Heat, Dies as He Falls Off Roof on East Side," "Divorcée's Navy Romance Revealed in Suit," "Pair Captured After Chase in Narcotic Theft," "General Wood's Kin Three Days in Sea." It carries three snappy pages of sport news. Its foreign news (when it can be found) tells: "Ten Men Killed in Moroccan War," "Boy Worker Locked in Bank" (Eng.), "Priest's Auto in Accident" (Ire.), "Colonies Restless, Empire Shakes" (Eng.), "Ice Prevents Sailing" (Can.). It is vigorous in its editorials...
...Premier; 2) to win the Derby. With the first he has not yet finished; with the second "his cares are now all ended." The day was wet and forbidding. Great crowds of hundreds of thousands of people found their way to Epsom Downs. But pretty frocks and dashing sport clothes, so important to Derby Days, were all wrapped up in raincoats, and the only splash of color was that supplied by the gypsies. As the field of 27 faced the barrier, the good-natured crowd "downed umbrellas" in order that all might see the getaway. "They're off!" shouted...