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...early member of the Lambs' Club and the Catholic Actors' Guild of America. His first wife, Alice Evans, died in 1919. In 1928 he secretly married Kathryn Alberta Riley, 37, who had nursed him back to health. In 1920 Lackaye paid a visit to John J. McGraw, during which it was claimed he insulted Baseballer McGraw. Lockaye said that McGraw put out his right hand in friendship, then struck him on the jaw with his left. After the fracas Lackaye nursed a broken ankle, had McGraw suspended from the Lambs' Club...
Edgar Kobak, vice president & general sales manager of McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., was elected president of the Advertising Federation of America at its 28th annual convention, in Manhattan, succeeding Gilbert Tennent Hodges, member of the executive board of the New York Sun, who was made board chairman, a position vacant for the past two years...
Sirs: TIME, clear, curt, hardly complete, failed to mention possibly the most dramatic struggle in the life of John J. McGraw (TIME, June 13)- his battle against a nickname. Young and irascible Third Baseman McGraw was known as "Muggsy" in Baltimore, gloried in the name. As he grew older, fatter, the name seemed undignified. No longer a head-puncher, save in sundry clubs where he was reputed to have lost more fights than an English heavyweight, John McGraw objected to rowdy publicity, fought strenuously for years and finally had the offensive appellation discarded first by the New York and then...
...McGraw grew older and fatter, he became more dignified. He remained irritable, a harsh disciplinarian. There was reported to be dissension between manager and players. First act of Manager Terry last week was to "give the boys a break." Said he: "They won't have to report to the park at 10 in the morning or go to bed at any certain hour. . . . All I'm to ask is that they play good ball...
...Giants' first baseman since 1925. One of the best hitters in the League, he led it with an average of .401 in 1930, barely missed doing it again last year. Now only 33, he had been a professional ballplayer for six years and was planning to retire when McGraw discovered him in 1921. He played for Toledo in 1922, managed the team for part of the season of 1923. Last winter, when his reputed $23,000 salary was cut 40%, First Baseman Terry again threatened to retire. Manager McGraw called him "ungrateful." If Manager Terry had any specific plans...