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...describing happenings at the Tunney-Dempsey Fight you speak of a gentleman who stood up-sat down-and placed his flask beside him. Is that the act of a gentleman ? Could you not, with better propriety, have used the word "man" ? It is like some of our Sport writers who speak of "customers" instead of spectators at our various athletic games...
Congressman Theodore Elijah Burton of Ohio: "Speaking before the Republican Women of Cleveland I flayed the U. S. people for being 'demoralized' where national affairs are concerned and devoting their whole attention to Bud Stillman's girl, 'Peaches'* Browning, Jack Dempsey and the world series. Said I: 'I consider calling that little hussy, "Peaches," a reflection on peach dishes or brandy, and the less said about her husband the better. There is no fool like an old fool. But let us dismiss this trivial gossip and consider subjects of importance to the nation...
First Game. It was a muggy day. Kenesaw Mountain Landis ate ham sandwiches rapidly and had his picture taken. Jack Dempsey, spectator, twisted his battered face into a smile. Sombre Rogers Hornsby, manager and second baseman of the Cardinals, came up to bat, pushed back his cap, was cheered for two and a half minutes. The first and most exciting inning of the game ended with one run for each team. Thereafter Pitchers Pennock and Sherdel twisted their slow left handers over the corners of the plate, hot-dog venders dragged themselves along the aisles. In the sixth inning Baseman...
...Columbia University, undertook to learn western make-up methods and practiced them even while playing Yum-Yum. Like the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, her present employment has little to do with her case. Critics, having heard her vocal chords vibrate under drafts from her super-Dempsey lungs, grant her at least an even chance of making good...
...Dempsey, 4% in.; the young woman, 4% in. tHer father, Aiji Koike, sound Methodist, manufactures glass in Tokyo