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Underworld. In the smelly, slinky alleyways of the Chicago tenderloin, the all-round criminal championship is held by "Bull" Weed (George Bancroft), hulking thug, notable for his wide-open laugh & easy-going gun. Only Buck Mulligan (Fred Kohler), who operates a florist's shop in the daytime, challenges Bull's underworld regency. So Bull "bumps him off," precipitating a police investigation and machine-gun play. These scenes roll off the film with a lusty realism that makes it all the more regrettable that the producers should have seen fit to resort to the invariable Hollywood alchemy of turning...
...founded the American League of professional baseball clubs. He was the dominating factor in the control of organized baseball from 1900 to 1927. Last week he-President Byron Bancroft Johnson of the American League-turned in an obviously dictated resignation to close ingloriously a notable career. His defeat left Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (who occupies in baseball a position analagous to that of Will H. Hays in the cinema industry) unchallenged as baseball's dictator. Ever after Commissioner Landis' appointment (in 1920, following bribery in the World's Series of 1919) there was rivalry, warfare between...
...Frisch. But he also knew enough to spend fortunes to buy other teams' luminaries. He began his high-priced acquisitions in 1908 by paying $11,000 for Richard Marquard. In later years the price went up-$50,000 for "Irish" Meusel, $100,000 apiece for Hugh McQuillan, David Bancroft, Henry Groh. Said Manager McGraw: "You can't bring the money into the box office without spending some of it first." Last week, approaching the celebration of his Silver Anniversary as Manager of the Giants, Mr. McGraw was having troubles. His team, even though it is captained by that...
...Weed, Chairman, Miss Dorothy Tebbetts; N. H. Barker, Mrs. N. H. Barker; G. W. Bowen, Mrs. G. W. Bowen; F. F. Collier, Jr., Miss Gertrude Bancroft; R. M. Henschen, Miss Margaret Roe; D. A. Holmes, Miss Frances Brown; A. D. MacNutt, Miss Dorothy Warfield; William Sever, Miss Theodoras Smith...
Crew Y Stroke, C, McK. Norton '29; 7, George Bancroft '27; 6, J. DeW. Hubbard '29; 5, J. H. Harwood '27; 4, W. G. Saltonstall '28; 3, R. W. Ladd '27; 2, Edwin Farnham '27; bow, Oliver Ames Jr. oeC; cox, C. H. Pforsheimer...