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...hand (gas); in Chicago. Chicago's only 13-letter man, Fullback Herschberger was the first Midwestern player named to Walter Camp's All-America football team (1898), first footballer to be x-rayed after an injury, reputedly first to spiral a punt, never weighed over 158 Ib...
...State returned record Democratic majorities for both national and State tickets. Last week in Kansas City, appearing at his offices for the first time since his illness, Tom Pendergast felt perfectly safe in turning over "active control" of his machine to Young Jim. Pale, shaky and down 65 Ib. from the 240 Ib...
...winner of the Packers v. Redskins game this week will go the professional championship of the U. S. Among the Packers' stars favored to win it are: Halfback John Blood, whose service record of 13 years is the longest in the League, whose size (6 ft., 190 Ib.) is pygmy compared to a team averaging 20 Ib. more, and whose orangutan arms make him equally dreaded as a pass catcher and a tackler; End Don Hutson, whose 34 catches this season broke the League record; Arnold ("Flash") Herber, whose accuracy has enabled him to throw completed passes totaling...
...Ignat ran into it, spilling them both. It was the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, around an O-shaped pine-board track, with 15 teams of two men each dressed in bright jerseys, pedaling in relays on bicycles that cost $100, weigh 19 Ib. After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided on points awarded for the sprints-races within a race-that punctuate the six-day marathon in series of ten, five times each day. Winners were blond Jimmy Walthour and slick-haired...
...plainer boom portent has been seen than the recent upward surge in prices, Moody's commodity index having risen 20% in the past six months. Wheat at $1.25 per bu. last week was at a six-year high, cocoa at 11¼? per Ib. at a seven-year high, rubber at 19? per Ib. at a seven-year-high...