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...first game, against a selection from 32 teams in & around New York City, was attended by a crowd of 25,000 whooping, yelling Irishmen who shouted loudest when they saw a broken head. They nearly saw one in the first seconds of the game. When Boss John Francis Curry of Tammany Hall threw in the first ball, he was instantly surrounded by a swarm of hurlers struggling to get at it with their hurleys. Boss Curry, who used to be a sprinter, scampered to the sidelines uninjured. Martin Kennedy, called "the man in the hat" because he always wears...
Contrary to legend, bowstrings give out a hard, flat sound, not a twang; arrows hiss rather than whistle in their flight. The loudest sound on an archery range is the thump of arrows when they reach the thick straw target. Into the gold bull's-eye of the 48-in. target at Canandaigua last week the arrows loosed by a lanky toxophilite from Coldwater, Mich., thumped most consistently. He, Russell Hoogerhyde, won the men's championship for the second time in succession, maintained a record of winning every tournament he has entered. His score...
Suit. Aluminum Co. of America faced a $9,000,000 damage suit last week, filed by its customer Baush Machine Tool Co. of Springfield, Mass. Loudest complaint was that Aluminum Co. gave Baush's competitors price concessions...
...Save Our Ships" Two of the country's greatest steamship companies sent out frantic calls of S. O. S. last week. Gravely the United States Shipping Board pondered whether or not it should go to the rescue, and if it should, how to go. Loudest of the calls was from United States Lines Inc. whose master is ambitious Paul W. Chapman. In 1929, U. S. Lines acquired eleven vessels from the U. S. Shipping Board for $16,000,000, paid $4,000,000 down. It has two large ships abuilding which will cost $22,000,000, and on which...
...William Lowndes Yancey, pre-Civil WarRepresentative from Alabama, one of the loudest and earliest U. S. secessionist...