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...Chicago Daily News met two of their favorite newspaper characters. They were there in person: 1) "Oxie O'Rourke," a baggy-pants commentator off West Madison Street who speaks the unimportant man's view of important matters in a side-of-the-mouth argot; 2) fat-chinned Clem Lane, a near-legendary Chicago newspaper man. The two are one & the same...
Seriocomic "Oxie O'Rourke" has lately been taking on more importance than ever in the Daily News (circ. 440,000). Once he was merely a sidelines character, along with his straight man, "Torchnose McGonigle," in Clem Lane's stories of Chicago crime and political shenanigans. Now Clement Quirk Lane has become City Editor, and the Daily News has been ballyhooing him as a Finley Peter Dunne, finding with more ease than accuracy a parallel in Oxie and Torchnose to Dunne's "Mr. Dooley" and "Mr. Hennessy...
...Never Scooped. White-thatched Clem Lane has been doing Oxie pieces for about six years. Oxie came into being when Mayor Edward J. Kelly (ever since a target of Oxie's meat ax) was trying to legalize Chicago's large population of bookmakers. The Daily News editorialized against it, and Lane, who knew his way around the handbooks, invented Oxie as a wiseacring mouthpiece...
West of the tracks, near the sprawling stockyards, is where Clem Lane was born 46 years ago, and much of Oxie's slangy. slipshod idiom springs from Lane's playmates and his long acquaintance with Chicago's Irish cops...
Murph McCarthy, Princeton first baseman who went through the season without making an error would play in the infield of this team, with Clem Yukuavich of Columbia at second; George Hain of Penn at third and Ronnie Stillman of Cornell at short. Hain also received enough votes for the latter position to tie with Stillman, having alternated between the two spots during the season. Baldwin of Princeton, Burns of Dartmouth and Clay of Harvard won the outfield berths