Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago public was presented with a bout not on the card when Ritchie Mitchell piled into the ring after his brother Pinky's defeat by Benny Leonard, and struck Referee Miller in the mouth. Ritchie objected to the latter's decision that Leonard had won by knockout without troubling to count Pinky out. Since the round had only five seconds to go when Pinky went down, much of the crowd agreed with Ritchie. Rough and rapid police action saved the referee and approximately ten thousand black eyes among the crowd...
...University in Print"?350 small books, bound in heavy card cover stock, to sell at present for 5 cents the volume?is truly remarkable. The typography is not like that of the Oxford Press, but it is legible. The paper is fair. And the books themselves, in general, are unimpeachable, for they include many of the best known classics. On most of them, of course, the author's copyright has expired, so Mr. Haldeman-Julius does not have to bother about paying royalties. At this very moment he has three million of these books in stock...
...matches, losing by the score of 4 to 2. Again Hodder played number one on the University team, with Williams two, Mapes three, and Peirson four. The low scorer of the match, however, was Mapes, who led the field with a 77. Peirson was next with a card of 79 while the best Technology score...
...individual scores of the players in the morning matches determined their rating in the afternoon. The best score of the morning was made by Pierson who turned in a card of 75, Clough getting a 77 and Mapes a 78. Only two Crimson players made the course in less than 80 in the singles matches. Mapes, who was defeated by Cummings of Yale got a 77 while Hodder had a 79. Three Yale players also turned in cards of from 76 to 79 in the singles matches...
...RETURN OF FRANK CLAMART ? Henry C. Rowland ? Harper ($1.90). 'Frank Clamart's visiting card should read, "Virtuous Assas-sinations?Singly or by the Dozens ?No Reduction Made for Quantity. " A master-criminal, reformed and now crusading against an international dope ring and murder syndicate, he extinguishes evildoers with nonchalance and celerity. His friend, Shane Emmet, a cartoonist with a camera-eye, assists his adventurous labor with blackjack, revolver and sketchbook, and strings along two high-speed love affairs the interim. When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives...