Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trans-Mississippi. At St. Joseph, Mo., James Manion of St. Louis made himself Trans-Mississippi champion by scotching Eddie Held, defender, on the 36th green of a sizzling semifinal; by smothering Lawson Watts, fellow townsman, 11 and 10 next day. Held left St. Joseph with the qualifying medal. It was his for 144 strokes, one of which sufficed him for the entire 13th hole...
Victor Fremont Lawson, Publisher Chicago Daily News LL.D...
...last night and discussed prospects for the intercollegiates, jotting down certain observations regarding the relative merits of this season's crop of stars. No thought was given to teams, but merely to individuals, and when all of the 15 events had been discussed, a tabulation of the points showed Lawson Robertson's University of Pennsylvania team out in front by an eyelash, only half a point ahead of Yale. The points for the leaders were Penn 28, Yale 27 1-2, California 23, Stanford and Princeton 22 each, and Boston College 18. Coach Farrell's men are doped to collect...
...News despatches. The News printed a despatch concerning a riot in Servia and in the despatch were some Servian words. The Post printed it and the next day the News published a translation: "The McMullens' (publishers of the Post) will steal this sure." Within a couple of years Lawson was able to buy out the Post. In 1881 he founded The Morning News, later called The Chicago Record, later merged into the Record-Herald and finally sold to Hearst to become The Herald and Examiner...
Among the men that developed under Mr. Lawson's tutelage were Eugene Field, George Ade, John T. McCutcheon, Ray Stannard Baker, Peter B. Kyne, Frank B. Noyes...