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Promoter. Except for a few players, the most spectacular personage in professional football is a beefy, sandy-haired Irishman named Timothy James Mara who owns the New York Giants. Before he bought his team, Tim Mara had never seen a football game. A onetime newsboy, theatre usher and racetrack bookie from Manhattan's East Side, he bought a franchise in the National League for $500 in 1925, the year before Charles C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle invaded New York with Red Grange and an "outlaw" league. By preserving his New York franchise during a feud with Pyle, Mara saved the organization...
...Giants lost $80,000. Since then they have made money almost every year, won the championship in 1927. In 1930 they raised over $115,000 for Unemployment Relief in a game against the Notre Dame Alumni. In addition, they have helped Owner Mara to enter sidelines like coal, liquor-importing (Timara Whiskey), fight promoting. In 1926 Owner Mara paid West Point's famed back Gene Vidal, now U. S. Director of Air Commerce, $100 to play for 15 minutes in a Florida exhibition game. He has set the fashion in hiring highly-publicized college stars, done more than any other...
...Duke of Kent, kissing her on both cheeks at Victoria Station after first kissing her mother's hand: "I do hope your journey has been good, Mara* dear...
Meanwhile the backwash of the tidal wave engulfed 1,533 small ships, damaged 85, sent alarming shivers along the steel spine of the liner Heian Mara, 400 mi. out at sea. Rushing on, the tidal backwash struck the Island of Hawaii (3,500 mi. from Japan) as a loft. wave which made things exciting on the beach. In Tokyo, while efficient Japanese clerks totaled up the disaster statistics. Director General Sinichi Kumitomi of the Central Seismological Observatory said: "I believe that this earthquake was more violent at its epicentre than that of 1923," which laid the greater part of Tokyo...
...calm water for the third Bacardi Cup race. Everyone knew what that meant. Adrian Iselin's Ace, a ghost in light airs, already had taken a third in the first race, a first in the second, for 34 points, to 32 for her nearest rival, the Cuban Mara. Sure enough, heeling gently in the breeze, Ace was away fast and well ahead halfway around the 10-mile triangular course. On the last leg, Jahncke's Tempe III drew close in a puff of wind that Ace missed; the catspaw died with the Iselin boat still in front...