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HARVARD LAFAYETTE Clark. c.f. 3b., Willever Gordon, l.f. 2b., Vanhart Jenkins, s.s. s.s., Gazella Owen, 1b., c.f., Ernest Hammond, 2b. lb., Brennan Buell, 3b. l.f., Brunner Thayer, r.f. l.f., Brunner Larrabee, c. c., Berry Herrmann, Spalding, p. p., Longaker, Seaman...
Miss Adelyn Bushnell alternately charmed in the roles of Mary Brennan, a crook, and Margaret Waring, an, orphan heiress. She was especially good as the crook impersonating the heiress, but her performance would have been better had she differentiated the two parts...
...extensive experience not strictly pugilistic, Jack Johnson proved his assertions that he is still prominent among fistic black oxen by tying Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine skull cracker, in a flock of knots in a "workout" match in New York, prior to Firpo's successful encounter with Bill Brennan...
...mighty strong. I don't see how a man so much smaller than him as Brennan can beat him. Firpo don't know much about boxing, but he has tremendous strength, and seems to be a hard hitter-I don't know just how hard, because I didn't let him hit me. I'm past allowing myself to get hit by these strong young fellows...
...final aftermath of the Firpo-Brennan conflict was the removal of Brennan to a New York hospital suffering concussion of the brain. The Evening Mail (New York) promptly published a screed of sympathy, but repeated emphatic assertions that Brennan's injuries were due to his own defensive neglect. Behind the Mail's annoyed murmurs is a widespread suspicion that Brennan made no serious attempt to win the fight...