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High lights at the osteopaths' convention: Cures were claimed 1) for hay fever, by Dr. T. L. Ray, of Fort Worth, Tex.; 2) for various types of insanity, including dementia praecox, through removal of circulatory and nerve defects, by Dr. A S. Hildreth, of Macon, Mo.; 3) for infected tonsils, through nonsurgical treatment, by Dr. Lucius Bush, of New York. A practical examination for every physician once in five years to keep him up with the times was advocated by Dr. C. J. Gaddis, of Chicago. Dr. W. A. Gravett, of Dayton, 0., was elected President...
Contracts have been signed for the construction of the world's greatest indoor arena just above the Manhattan theatre district (at 51st St. and Seventh Ave.). John Ringling, circus man; Tex Rickard, greatest of athletic promoters; E. F. Albee, czar of vaudeville, are behind the project. The building will include at least two theatres beside the arena, and will seat untold thousands. In the summertime the tan l ark will evolve into a swimming pool than which " only the ocean is larger." The announcement spells death to historic Madison Square Garden, for years home of circus, bike race, title bout...
...bull-dogging, bronco-busting, roping et al. The Frontier may have passed but the sports of the Frontier survive. Sans six-guns, perhaps; sans Deadwood Dick's Last Chance Saloon and a picturesque if sanguinary revolver-practice; but with the spirit of that Frontier alive for all that. Tex Austin is the promoter of the big new rodeo, and he obviously intends to go about it in a showman-like way. He has hired the new Yankee Stadium for a period of ten days in August when the Yankees will be away and he intends to offer...
Battling Siki, Negro heavyweight, grows stranger week by week. Tex Rickard queried the Senegalese by cable on his terms for a bout with Kid Norfolk in America. Siki's response named such an enormous figure that even the expansive Rickard held up his hands in horror...
Since being bitten by a lion in a Paris café, Battling Siki has faded from the public eye. He takes the opportunity to regain a place in the news columns by refusing publicly an alleged offer from Tex Rickard of $10,000 to fight Kid Norfolk, American Negro, in New York this summer. Siki explains that since his experience with Mike McTigue in a Dublin ring he has become convinced that he can get a square deal "nowhere in the world outside of continental Europe...