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...guests had gone and Alf Landon went up to bed. He had told reporters he would have no statement until morning. About midnight, however, Ross Bartley, the Landon publicity man, appeared at the Jayhawk Hotel to hand out copies of the Republican Nominee's telegram of congratulations to Franklin Roosevelt (see col. 1). Already in the Jayhawk they were discussing Alf Landon's chances of getting elected U. S. Senator in 1938, the job his friends really had in mind for him when they began booming him for the Presidency year...
...Died. Bartley Madden, 40, New York heavyweight boxer; after falling off the steps of the Treasury Building at Washington during a sight-seeing tour. Onetime champion of his native Ireland, he was famed in the U. S. as a tough, courageous "trial horse" for title-seekers. In 22 years he fought 94 bouts: won 52 (29 knockouts), lost 14 (one knockout-by Gene...
...left the head of the bureau to become publicity man for the Brothers Van Sweringen and Vice President of their Erie R. R. While covering the Senate oil scandals investigation, Bond E. Geddes dropped his pencil abruptly to become the press agent for Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. E. Ross Bartley covered Charles Gates Dawes' Vice Presidential campaign in 1924 so effectively that the Vice President made him his Chief Secretary at the capitol...
...pound Negro fought a 185-pound Irishman. Harry Wills of New Or leans, repeated challenger. of Champion Dempsey, won a decision but failed to knock out (or even knock down) awk ward but plucky Bartley Madden. Indeed, as the fight progressed, Mad den began to wax more and more potent while the giant Senegambian "appeared to be tiring from his own efforts." Counting those who graced telephone and telegraph poles that over looked the arena, 20,000 persons saw the encounter. Madden absorbed ter rific punishment at close quarters - he was soundly whacked on eye, jaw, crown, ribs and solar...
...Argentine, the pugilist Luis Angel Firpo smells the blood of an American. Two cables came last week inviting invasion. Bartley Madden refused an offer of $10,000. $3,200 for "any respectable contender" has found no favor...