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Loud Welcome. Few of the famed men and women who have sailed up the oily river to Manhattan's topless towers ever received such a welcome as was accorded last week to the Irishman whose toast is drunk daily in 10,000,000 cups of tea. There were whistles, cheers, salutes. Six hundred passengers lined the rails of the Leviathan. One Barren Collier, a Special Deputy Police** Commissioner, was present with a yacht to take Sir Thomas up the bay. The Police Band was present? to play Home Again and Hail to the Chief and The Gang's All Here...
...Westchester Biltmore Club, Rye, N. Y. Having caddied and coached the Champion to victory last Fall, Joe could not bear to miss her performance this year and had traveled to Providence "on his own" to be at her side. Well above the voting age, shrewd as any Irishman, Joe is a rare jewel among caddies...
Eamom de Valera, New-York-State born Irishman, recently released from prison (TIME. July 28), harangued a crowd at Ennis, where, about one year ago, he was arrested by Free State troops (TIME...
...discussion ensued lasting through lunch, coffee and cigars. On the committee was one man who tipped back his chair against the wall of the private dining room, chewed his cigar, but otherwise appeared to be in a trance. He was an Irishman, old, affluent, and warm and ripe with experience...
...pound Negro fought a 185-pound Irishman. Harry Wills of New Or leans, repeated challenger. of Champion Dempsey, won a decision but failed to knock out (or even knock down) awk ward but plucky Bartley Madden. Indeed, as the fight progressed, Mad den began to wax more and more potent while the giant Senegambian "appeared to be tiring from his own efforts." Counting those who graced telephone and telegraph poles that over looked the arena, 20,000 persons saw the encounter. Madden absorbed ter rific punishment at close quarters - he was soundly whacked on eye, jaw, crown, ribs and solar...