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...tree is known by its fruits; not by the showy flowers of promise or the occasional defect in bud or branch, but by the normal harvest through the running of the years?and the harvest of the Republican party and leadership is faithfully reflected in the matchless growth and fadeless glory of the Republic...
...Brooklyn, Pancho Villa, fighting Filipino and world's flyweight champion, knocked bamtamweight Bud Taylor, Terre Haute Terror, into a cocked hat in 12 rounds...
...Bud was quick, strong and clever; Pancho was quicker, stronger and cleverer. The Terror would rush in and shoot his fists out with a snappy jerk, but those fists seldom hit anything except thin air. The sullen brown boy was .like a flea on hot bricks. He fought with his body close to the floor, thus reducing his five ft. one inch to something under three ft. As the big Bud approached, Pancho would spring into the air, punching, pounding and pulverizing that unfortunate Terror from Terre Haute...
...from the stands as the horses simultaneously broke to a splendid start. Mad Play gained an immediate lead by saving ground in rounding the first turn. Hard pressed for the whole 1⅛ miles, Mad Play succeeded in maintaining his lead and finally won by 1½ lengths from Bud Fisher's Mr. Mutt. Harry F. Sinclair had won for the third time the $50,000* Belmont classic...
Francine Larrimore, the star, saves the character from being a hybrid bud. She seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and saves the part from being a teapot tempest of tears. Tom Nesbitt and Wallace Ford provide good shadows for the background, but the aunts are mere stalking horses...