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...actors who threw themselves into these extraordinary circumstances pleased a very large audience. If you've ever heard a crowd urge Bill Hart on in a race with death, you'll know how everyone in the theatre last Monday night was right behind Civic Virtue all the time. Encouraged by tremendous enthusiasm, the actors had a tendency to a declamatory utterance and self-consciousness the moment the action became tense, which revealed every dramatic absurdity in the play. How could they help it?-There was tremendous melodrama of life, and There was an audience craving raw meat: They...
...There had been a strike of marine transport workers in San Pedro. It was charged to the I. W. W. Los Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution of the United States. He was promptly arrested and released on $500 bond. Mayor George E. Cryer had refused permission...
...second inning was a bad one for the Crimson. Three singles, a serious infield error, and poor judgement on the part of the fielders all contributed to a rally which brought in four runs before McGlone threw out Randall at first for the final...
...other three Crimson athletes who survived the preliminaries yesterday are field event men. Eastman, with a heave of 44 feet 11 inches, had the third best distance in the shotput, in which six men will compete for the points today. Carpenter threw the discus 127 feet 1 3-4 inches for his qualification, while Greenidge hurled the javelin 176 feet 1-2 inch for a position among today's contenders. There were two distinct disappointments for Crimson supporters yesterday, when Hauers failed to qualify in the high hurdles and Miller was forced out of the competition in the discus event...
...last of the ninth, Coach Slattery threw in all his pinch hitters, but neither Hill nor Doherty was able to fathom Clement's deceptive delivery. False hopes were raised a minute later when Clark reached first on an error, and Gordon knocked out a clean single to left, only to have Clark caught at third for the final out when he tried to stretch the hit an extra base...