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After the war, Gamaliel turned to polities, and in due course of time he becam the right-hand man of our great left-handed president. Thomas Jefferson. And along about 1807 or 1808. King George, a great sport lover, got a prime minister of his named Pyle to induce several members of the Harvard and Yale crews to go over to England and now on an English crew in the championships at Wimbledon. And President Jefferson was pretty sore, too. "What is to become of amateur athletics in America if this impeachment business goes on?" he asked...
When Harold ("Red") Grange first began to romp under the managerial eye of C. C. ("Cold-cash") Pyle, and U. S. suspected that. Mr. Pyle was a sucker. Later, when professional football showed signs of success they realized that Mr. Pyle was a businessman. Then Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis ace, turned professional, along with other tennis notables. People thought that Mr. Pyle showed acumen. Until last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford...
Bill" Tilden, able Davis Cup defender. Besides him walked his wife. C. C. Pyle then glanced here, there, rose, announced: "Ladies, Gentlemen . . . Mr. Vincent Richards, greatest male tennis player in the world . . . is now a professional." An orchestra blared...
...venture of Mr. C. C. Pyle and his partners in this crime against the untainted amateur spirit will not, it is predicted, meet with the success that had been predicted. There was no scrambling for the balls, players were not besieged for autographs. Mademoiselle Lenglen and Mr. Richards missed a trick by not sending tennis balls to the sick boy whose convalescence has recently been so materially aided by the receipt of a baseball from Mr. Ruth and a football from Mr. Grange. The Madison Square Garden audience showed no World Series fever and Mademoiselle Lenglen showed no temperament. Which...
...rumors that peasants of the Middle West will defeat Coolidge. They change with the wheat crops and he has two to go." Or, "A bunch of American tourists were hissed and stoned yesterday in France, but not until they had finished shopping." Or, "Suzanne Lenglen has been landed by Pyle. He is now here in London trying to get Bernard Shaw to turn professional and write for money...