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WHEN two university professors sit down, as Messre Brennecke and Clark have done, to wire a "how to do it" book for professionals, the resulting opus is almost always full of old and obvious data mingled with much misleading and impertinent material. Even, if by some freak of good fortune, the academic mind should produce a sane work on some subject like article writing, the successful contributor to magazines can be heard to dismiss it with "I don't like it, even if it is good...
...these debunked times editors are chary of exaggerated Circus yarns. And "Mr. John" Ringling proscribes all conventional "build-ups." No freak, equestrienne, or wire artist is permitted to endorse cigarets, motor cars or trick neckwear. In the past decade the Big Show has grown extremely respectable. To advertise 26 zebras, the publicity men must be able to point to 26-count them...
...president of the Turf and Field Club, he succeeded August Belmont as Chairman of the U. S. Jockey Club. Unlike those old ladies who feed truck horses lump sugar from paper bags in their purses, he is no sentimentalist; unlike Henry Bergh, he is a cosmopolite without being a freak. Now 83, he still summers at Newport. His stern, mustachioed countenance has changed little since the days when, a member of Strong. Sturgis & Co., he was president of the New York Stock Exchange, or those when his thoroughbreds raced at fashionable meets. A club-window face, it was often seen...
From a box-office point of view, it would probably have been better to have matched the Boston sailor boy with the latest freak of the boxing world. Primo Carnera, Italian colossus. If the latter taken in hand in a good publicity campaign, set up against a whole row of pushovers, all carefully instructed to lie down quietly when the proper time duly arrived, and then sent down to Miami, there would probably be enough gullible sporting patrons to fill several stadiums. They would go to such a match as much to see the giant Italian in action (or inaction...
...field goal, gained 268 yards. Dartmouth's Marsters bridged the field in four passes for one score, threw his big lean body twice through the line and once round end for another, but gained only 94 yards and dropped the ball that gave Yale one of its two freak touchdowns. Hot and hurt (ankle) he left the field early. Booth stayed in, a constant threat, but it was a spry-sprinting substitute called "Hoot" Ellis who made the 80-yard dash that won the game. Yale 16, Dartmouth...