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...Governorship against his Brother Bob, he fiddled in vain for the political support of the gentlemen of Tennessee. Last week, the gentlemen of Tennessee, political and notable, danced attendance on Uncle Alf. In the greatest fox hunt the state has ever known, Tennessee honored its beloved old sportsman and one time (1920-22) governor, Alfred Alexander Taylor. And up in the rugged foothills of the Smoky Mountains, on the northeastern tongue of Tennessee, the rugged 80-year-old "Sage of Happy Valley" played jovial host to the folk who had finally elected him their chief only eight years before...
Soon after President Harding was inaugurated, Sinclair was a frequent visitor in Washington, D. C. He knew Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, sportsman-publisher of the Washington Post, and Harry Micajah Daugherty, the U. S. Attorney-General. He cultivated Albert-Bacon Fall, whom he had known only casually as a Senator from New Mexico, but who now, in 1921, was Secretary of the Interior. Sinclair began to be invited to stay at the White House...
...insisted I pass judgment. Well, I will fine you $75 and costs and tell you that if there is anything more unsportsmanlike than what you did I don't know of it. To walk up and shoot a tame deer at all is anything but sportsmanship. And no sportsman would shoot a roe if he knew...
Died. Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis, 62, Canadian banker, tobaccoman (Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada), sportsman, father-in-law of famed Actress Rosie Dolly; of heart disease; at Cannes...
...apparent effort to condemn the dog, the exhibitor and the bench show, and since the owners of the kennels you have listed are good sports and real lovers of the dog, you may be assured that they will feel the same about this article, uninteresting to the sportsman and misleading to the public...