Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alex Northrop will run the mile, slightly out of his class with Cunningham, Venske, and Fenske. Guill Aertsen and Mike Michelman will high-jump with California's newest protege, Les Steers. Sparks Sorlien '38 is entered in the dash alone, with Bob Gammons out of competion again with a bad leg. The two-mile relay team personnel hinges upon whether Hanlon will be taken for the shorter relay and the ability of Northrop to repeat after the mile...
Over three weeks ago a bitter ruction broke out in print among the elite of U. S. sportswriters when New York News Sports Editor Jimmy Powers reproached some of his fellows for an alleged alliance with sharp Promoter Mike Jacobs. New York Mirror Sports Editor Dan Parker countered that "Screwball Bowers" had "appropriated" word for word a Herbert Gorem sports story from the New York Sun, "used it ... in his syndicated out-of-town column...
During the second preliminary fight before the Braddock-Farr match at Madison Square Garden last week, a brawling broke out in the press row at the ringside. Promoter Mike Jacobs, hastening through the crowd of spectators, police and opponents, irritably declared: "We're having a damned sight more fighting outside the ring than in it! We have a full house. I suggest you gentlemen save those fisticuffs for some night when we don't have such a splendid attendance...
...between Jimmy Powers and most of the rest of the usually amiable press corps that covers most of the world's biggest sporting events. Some of this bad blood spilled over a fortnight ago when Editor Powers devoted his Daily News column to a biting parable about "Snow Mike and the Seven Dwarfs," plainly identifiable as Promoter Jacobs, two members of the State boxing commission and five sports writers, among them Mr. Van Every. Fairy-tale-teller Powers related solemnly how the Seven Dwarfs had promised Snow Mike "they would all 'take care...
...Governor White last week to do something that to other Depression-ridden Governors sounded like pure quixotry. Thanks to plentiful Federal grants for public works and a 2% sales tax inherited from his budget-balancing predecessor, Sennett ("Mike") Conners, Governor White boasts a $5,000.000 surplus in his State treasury. All homesteads valued at less than $2,500 are currently exempt from State taxes. In his opening message to the legislature last week, Governor White expressed the pious hope that all homesteads be exempted, not only from the four-mill State tax but from the 15 to 7O-mill taxes...