Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Culberson, grievously stricken in health, but still possessed of his fund of humor and anecdote, has begun to set down the experiences of his 30 years in public life ?from the time when as Governor of Texas he put a stop to one of Bob Fitzsimmons' prize fights by calling the Legislature to prohibit, it ?to last November when the Ku Klux Klan unseated...
Although a better fighting man than Wilson, Greb is not in the class with his illustrious predecessors in the middleweight championship. Bob Fitzsimmons, Jack Dempsey the Nonpareil (his international reputation in 1884-1891 persisted so strongly that the present heavyweight champion adopted his name), Tommy Ryan, Kid McCoy, Stanley Ketchel have held the title. So great was their skill that the heavyweight championship alone overshadowed the middleweight in national interest. Since Ketchels murder 13 years ago the middleweight class has been distinguished only by its consistent mediocrity...
...Story. The Canon of Gold was the meeting place of one of the most oddly assorted groups of characters in all fictional Arizona. There the two obtrusively quaint old "pardners," Thad Grove and Bob Hill, kept house with their adopted child, Marta Hillgrove, found in somebody or other's cabbage-patch in the past, and at the time the story opens just budding into radiant womanhood. There also lived the foul Lizard, Villain Number One ?and Saint Jimmy, who was just Tiny Tim grown up and wild about doing good to everybody. There also came Hugh Edwards?...
...Metropolitan open golf championship, Eastern equivalent of the Southern and Western opens, fell to Bob MacDonald, of Chicago. Though virtually all the professionals that gathered for the National championship the week previous at Inwood drove off for a try at the Metropolitan title, little spectacular golf was played. By missing a one-yard putt on the home green MacDonald ran into a tie with Jim Barnes of Pelham, at 295. In the play-off Mac-Donald shot 70, three under par, and defeated Barnes by ten strokes. MacDonald won the same title in 1921, and lost it in a similar...
...intends to offer $50,000 in prize money-double the total prize money offered at the Madison Square Garden rodeo last winter. The entry list is open to all comers-the contests will be conducted in accordance with the rules of the Rodeo Association-and High-Chin Bob and his riding confreres from all quarters of the West are going to come a-hootin'. Arrangements have been made to quarter some 400 head of stock under the Yankee grandstand-broncos, steers for the bulldoggmg contests, calves for the roping, etc. A huge cocoa-mat will cover the dia-mand...