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Maximilian Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, his license to fight where fighting is most lucrative still withheld by the New York State Boxing Commission was "practically a nervous wreck" as he stepped aboard the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin, bound for Berlin, his mother and a rest. Warned that unless he soon returned Argentine's Victorio Maria Campolo would replace him as world's champion heavyweight contender, Herr Schmeling scoffed: "Campolo is a one-day fly ... here today and gone tomorrow...
Last June in Hamburg the Falke's crew learned without particular interest that their ship had changed owners. Not the Hamburg Kauffahrtei Gesellschaft, to which they had belonged for so many years, but a firm known as Felix Prenzlau & Co. would pay their wages in future. In the freight trade one Captain is much like another. They were not excited when their new master, one Capt. Tipplitt, came aboard. But Capt. Tipplitt turned out to be different...
Riding high, in ballast, the Falke clanked out of Hamburg harbor for the coast of Poland. The Falke's crew became interested three days later, when they rolled idly off a Polish beach at dawn while motor boats came out to meet them carrying 125 swart, excitable passengers smelling of rum and perfumed hair tonic, speaking Spanish...
German national lawn (at Hamburg)- Singles, Christian Boussus of France; doubles, Jacques Brugnon & Christian Boussus of France; women's singles, Frau von Reznicek...
...Graf Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home on the Hamburg-American liner Thuringia, ignominiously...