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...care and sound judgment, offers a large number of excellent negro talcuts. Credit must especially be given to Todd Dunean for a magnificent performance as Porgy, to Anne Wiggins Brown who played Bess, to John Bubbles who gave the full sum of his effervescent charm to the role of Sportin' Life, and to Warren Coleman as Crown...
...ring. Eddie Bauchard is as familiar to horsemen as Announcer Joe Humphries is to prizefighters. Impressive Reginald W. Rives, treasurer of the Association and amateur coachman, is another famed oldtimer. Treasurer Rives has spent much of his life looking and acting like a character in one of the sportin' novels of Robert Smith Surtees...
...Gordons were the only Negroes in White Sulphur Springs, Mont. At the Springs was a "sportin' house" Madame. Her name was Big Maude. Unlike her kind, she was not a fighter, could not beat policemen. She was genteel, of noble English descent (her story), and wise. She charged more for drinks than any of her competitors. The miners and farmers marveled at the way her four girls dressed. Big Maude asked Taylor Gordon to work for her. He agreed, ran errands for the girls, served drinks, wore brass buttons and blue coat, received good wages, liked...
Another thing mr Editer it eint fair that these Capper fellows should go around sportin that little gold dingus of theirs while the poor nuglected atheletic heroes haint got nothing to show...