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...season held in Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday night, the University grapplers downed Tufts by the score of 14 to 9 while Standish Hall carried off first honors in the Freshman Interdormitory meet. By winning from Tufts, the Crimson team repeated their victory of last year when they overwhelmed the Jumbo matmen...
...Kewanee, Ill., there died Jumbo, "world's biggest horse," height: 18 hands,? 3 in.; weight: 1.525 tons...
...murderers remained at large and newsgatherers had nothing better to do than enlarge upon Jumbo Crowley and the Canton "Jungle," for local color. Jungle gangsters had their heads together, muttering. Jungle women were pawning their trinkets and leaving town, shrewd rats leaving a wreck...
...Jungle stretches southwest out of the business section. Here are factories, dirty alleys, frame hovels and a population of Negroes and foreign-born toilers who cluster at eventide in Greek restaurants and poolrooms. Here, for 25 years, Jumbo Crowley held sway, sending his cosmopolitan children to the polls to vote as he thought best; dispensing protection, advice or instructions, to henchmen in whose doings he never was implicated-until lately, when he was arrested for directing certain alcohol operations, and since when- they say-he has completely reformed...
...ideal citizen," reported the New York Times correspondent, diplomatically introducing Jumbo's rare philosophy and some of his "twinkling humor." Huge chested, hard as nails physically, Jumbo is fond of hunting, fishing, boxing. "Liquor isn't made to drink," he has said. "It's made to sell." No one has ever seen him down a glass of intoxicant. In the Jungle, Jumbo has taught the survival of the fittest. "If a man walks down the street with $100 in his pocket and some one knocks him over the head and takes it, that's his fault...