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James J. Jeffries, ex-world's champion heavyweight pugilist: " Interviewed at my California ranch about my announced evangelistic intentions, said I: 'I don't give a darn for preachers. . . . For heaven's sake don't tell anyone I'm to become a preacher. I...
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion, has broken the charmed circle of Culture. A portrait of the pugilist by Alonzo V. Lewis, of Seattle, hangs in an exhibition of Western art at the Kansas City Art Institute, between a Spring Landscape and Indian Summer. The director of the Institute is in...
Nevertheless Promotor Rickard said: " Firpo, in my mind, is the outstanding challenger for Dempsey's title right now. He impresses me as another Jim Jeffries?a better man than Jeffries was at a corresponding period in his ring career, for Firpo is stronger than Jeff and hits harder."
And that the statute, which was a result of the Jeffries-Johnson fight, is unusually strict, in that it forbids any person to take anything from the mails, or from any express company or carrier, which is forbidden to be transported, and provides for a fine of $1,000 or...
Following the business meeting, the Society members will assemble in front of Emerson Hall. H. J. Friendly '23 and Jeffries Wyman Jr. '23, first and second marshals respectively of the Society, will lead the procession to Sanders Theatre where the regular literary exercises will be held.