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...column, "The Sportlight," syndicated to more than 100 U.S. dailies, Granny Rice did more than report sports, often in sentimental verse. "He was the prophet of the glory of games," said his old friend, Manhattan Adman Bruce Barton, "he was an evangelist...
...bird off a telegraph wire with a golf ball at 170 yards, 4) been called by onetime U. S. Amateur Champion George Von Elm, who had played with him daily for a month, the "greatest golfer in the world." Sportswriter Rice played several games with John Montague. In his Sportlight, Grantland Rice substantiated Golfer Von Elm's opinion...
...attraction on the University's current bill is a selected short subject. For interesting and continuous entertainment the Grantland Rice Sportlight now showing outranks either of the very ordinary feature pictures. The Ace card in Mr. Rice's latest hand, with Ted Husing dealing, is a pictorial record of one of the freakest of animal companionships, namely that of six otters, two dogs, and a raccoon. With cameramen lurking everywhere, their owner hunts, fishes, and plays with them for a very entertaining quarter-hour. This not one of Grantland Rice's run-of-the-mine features. His men went...
...your readers by the unhappy condition of the poor little koala in Australia and have heartily seconded Mr. Dow's suggestion that Mrs. Schroeder's $50 be applied to the preservation of American animal and bird life. And now, after having seen yesterday a Grantland Rice Sportlight featuring the six unique otter pets of a gentleman from Minnesota, I wonder why some philanthropist does not initiate a fund for the preservation of the American otter...
...beat Santa Clara. The football centre of the country seemed to have moved south. It had done so because the Texans had developed a hell-for-leather style of play which employed plenty of passes of all kinds, sweeps and power plays, lots of deception. Emerging into the national sportlight like a whole league of Centre Colleges, the Southwest Conference this year produced not one but a pair of teams of championship stripe. Among a coeducational student body of less than 1,000, Texas Christian's Coach Leo Robert (''Dutch") Meyer had discovered a squad which remained...