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...Zbyszko, Tommy Ryan, Billy Papke and Tod Sloan are introduced briefly; they represent the tradition of clean, wholesome sport. The picture was made during the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and it was therefore feasible for Paramount to persuade several real sportswriters to perform in it. Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Paul Gallico. Damon Runyon. Jack Lait appear momentarily, drinking coffee; Runyon speaks but Pegler is to be recognized only by his right out. In all this welter of authenticity, it is only natural for the story of Madison Square Garden to seem a little unreal by comparison. It is mainly...
...Colyumist Brisbane told how economically one can live in California. Miami readers were not to suffer that. The Herald tossed the whole col-yum aside, dug up and printed instead some two-weeks-old Brisbanalities about naval armaments, the death of Santos-Dumont, etc., etc. Fortnight ago Westbrook Pegler, eloquent sports colyumist of the Chicago Tribune, was en route to the Olympic Games, writing his syndicated daily piece on the train as does Colyumist Brisbane. In one day's colyum he aped the Brisbanal style, headlined it "Tomorrow." Excerpts : "Persons aboard this train are going to Los Angeles...
...much lighter vein wrote "Congressman" Westbrook Pegler, whose sport colyum is syndicated through the Tribune: "I do not favor the return of the old saloon. Too many of our citizens owed bills in the old saloons, and if the saloons came back they would be subject to annoyance...
...that has caused him to be called, pound for pound, the best fighter in the world. He bobbed, squirmed, charged, wove, ducked, slammed and smashed at Sharkey, trying to hit his face more than his body. He swung in under Sharkey's high guard with what Westbrook Pegler colorfully called "the simian roll of a vaudeville baboon on roller skates." In the seventh round, a right caught Sharkey on the chin. He went back against the ropes, the crowd roaring...