Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Jack Sharkey, jowled, beefy and 31, climbed into the ring of Philadelphia's Baker Bowl one night last week he became $25,000 richer. When Tommy Loughran, likewise 31, slack-bellied and scarred from 16 years of prizefighting, entered the opposite corner he knew he would collect not one cent for what was about to happen...
...excess of Sharkey's guarantee; and less than 8,000 persons felt like paying to see a fight which could decide but one thing: which of two outworn heavyweights was due for immediate oblivion. Loughran, a quiet, well-liked fellow, had never been a powerful threat in the ring since he stepped up from the light-heavyweight class. Sharkey knocked him out four years ago. And now talkative, wealthy Sharkey, only three months ago the champion, had left his last claim to importance on the floor of a Chicago ring where King Levinsky knocked him last month (TIME, Sept...
...study in human nature," explains Mr. Cohan. "I guess you would call it a comedy, but it's got a serious note in it. This fellow O'Neill doesn't ring the bell, he lets you pull it. The play just shows you this fellow's observation. You wouldn't call this a part I've got at all. It's a study. This fellow's got a great reading public, too -I imagine he has, anyway, and so it's got to be looked at from a literary standpoint...
Died. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner, 48, fictionist, playwright, sportswriter; of heart disease and tuberculosis; in "No Visitors, N.Y.," his home at East Hampton, L. I. Born in Niles, Mich., packed off to engineering college by his parents, he failed every course but rhetoric, did no better as a freight agent and gas company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle...
Because professional sport lives on publicity, sporting personages rarely incur the enmity of the Press with libel suits. This may have aided more than one sports writer like the late Ring Lardner, Joe Williams, William McGeehan and Paul Gallico (who will replace Pegler on the Chicago Tribune Syndicate) to perfect sarcastic styles. It is unlikely that a wider field will decrease Pegler's eloquence or his impatience. He plans to-call his new column "Sweetness and Light...