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...Brooklands, England, G. E. T. Eyston drove a supercharged M. G. Midget car 96.93 m.p.h. for one mile, breaking the world's record held by Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell. On crawling out of his Midget, Driver Eyston said he was disappointed because he had not gone 100 m.p.h., blamed a hoodoo...
...Scripps on the latter's ranch at Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with his employer, he was at his fanciest. The great man scowled down at his midget caller and in their ensuing conversation sought to squelch him thoroughly and forever. After the little fashion-plate had carried his point and walked off, Old Man Scripps is supposed to have uttered the famed encomium, the truth of which other great men have learned about Roy Howard: "That young man boots...
What Mutt Irwin and Jeff Gandhi said to each other for the next four hours was their secret. No secretary was present. The principals themselves, after gentle insistence by Lord Irwin, scribbled their own notes. Optimism bounded as the midget made a hurried exit, saying: "I am satisfied, even optimistic. But I must hurry. If I don't get home before sundown, I must fast tonight"-for it is Mr. Gandhi's rule to eat but once a day, never at night, and he had taken Lord Irwin on an empty stomach. Twice more, last week, the "friends...
...York and Pennsylvania, Midget Wolgast is flyweight champion of the world because he won an elimination tournament sanctioned by the boxing boards in those States. Everywhere else Frankie Genaro, elderly and cautious Italian, is champion. Last week in Madison Square Garden the two champions sparred 15 rounds to decide it once for all. Wolgast flopped his long hair up and down, bounced off the ropes, flickered his harmless sewing-machine-needle left with no results. He won four rounds and began to tire. Genaro hit him twice in the left eye with a punch supposed to be fatal...
...interest of the juvenile holiday trade the Brothers Shubert have revived Victor Herbert's Babes In Toyland. The production has an air of Herbert-cum-Ringling Bros. For the chief attraction of the show is a troupe of Singer's midgets who dress up as penguins in the toyshop scene, play in a jazz band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults...