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...committee may congratulate themselves on their project. The four greatest football teams in America meeting for three inter-sectional games for the first real national championship would be a spectacle equaled in magnitude only by such commercial affairs as the world's series or a heavyweight championship bout. And, from the point of view of the one hundred and twenty thousand spectators, this plan would result in some magnificent football. The committee has secured the endorsement of such demigods of the game as Knute Rockne, Alonzo Stagg and Andy Smith. The prestige of these men, aided by that...
That is how some people thought it would be when it was announced that Mickey Walker, world's welterweight champion, was to fight Dave Shade, the Californian who had been three years trying to pick just this scrap, before Tex Rickard accommodated him and fixed the place of the bout in the Yankee Stadium in New York City...
...Irishman, taking two punches to one for the occasional privilege of bringing home his cemetery left. The referee's decision was unpopular. "A champion is ut," McTigue's followers queried, "that ham an'egger?" They were consoled only because they had seen, in a preliminary bout, a light-heavyweight boxer whose speed and rhythm surpassed anything in the memory of some, and set others thinking of Fitzsimmons and Wolgast. For him-James Slattery of Buffalo- sports writers flatly prophesied the world's heavyweight championship. "And when he meets Berlenbach . . ." said McTigue's adherents later that...
Last week, in the white glare of an 18-foot ring, Berlenbach and Slattery touched gloves and began to weave about each other, glaring. Since the spring evening upon which they had simultaneously established their reputations, Berlenbach had been disqualified for stalling in a bout against Tony Marullo (TIME, July 27), and Slattery been knocked unconscious by a blow from the fist of David Shade, welterweight (TIME, July 13). The stalling, many thought was quite to be expected from a onetime taxidriver; the knockout was a regrettable accident. Nevertheless, as the two squared off, not a few, who had learned...
Last year "hundreds of creditors, credit houses, debtors, lawyers, wives and engaged persons of both sexes" stormed the Government tax bureaus. This year a mere handful, five or ten, were i bout all that tax officials in even the largest cities were called upon to satisfy. One hysterical woman searched through eleven volumes of statistics, seeking grounds on which to demand an increase in her alimony. The divorced one, ungallant, defied her; he has filed his returns in another city, dared her to guess its name...