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That was the main event on the card but what the crowd had really come to see was not the title match but an astounding 302 lb. freak named Frank ("Man Mountain") Dean whom Promoter Curley, always on the lookout for monstrosities, had found last year in Norcross, Ga. Before that, Man Mountain Dean, reared in Manhattan, had been an unsuccessful stevedore, a sparring partner whom Jess Willard used frequently to knock out. When he became a wrestler three years ago, Man Mountain Dean swore that he would not shave until he won the championship. He now has a bushy...
Died. William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, 28, heavyweight prizefighter; following a motor crash; in Macon, Ga. Stribling was motorcycling to a hospital to see his wife and two-week-old baby when an automobile sideswiped him. He suffered a crushed pelvis, had to have his left foot amputated. Last fortnight he fought his 340th and final fight at Houston, getting a newspaper decision over Light-heavyweight Champion Maxie Rosenbloom...
...family are buried. Georgia-born (1903) and bred, Authoress Miller got her schooling at Waycross High School, where she took more than an academic interest in English and in her English teacher (W. D. Miller), whom she married two months after graduation. Now she lives in Baxley, Ga., where her husband teaches school. She finds time to write while looking after a household that includes three small sons. Lamb in His Bosom is her first book...
...Milledgeville, Ga., Roy McCullough was sent to prison for a misdemeanor, found his father Alvin, whom he had not seen for 21 years, in the death cell awaiting execution for murder...
...First National Bank identified two boys who had seized, later released him fortnight ago on his way to work (TIME, July 17). Three men were arrested as they lay in wait for another banker, Cecil C. Vaughan, near Franklin, Va. John C. Lyle, mail carrier of Crawfordsville, Ga., was kidnapped by three escaping convicts, driven in his own car to Wake Forest, N. C., freed. A St. Paul physician named Walter H. Hedberg said he was shot through the ear, beaten, drugged, left in his car in the path of a train when he refused to mutilate a chiropractor...