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...asked the South to be sportsman?? like in the election, to omit "personal bit¬terness." He cited the political fights of the brother-governors of Tennessee?Alfred A. Taylor, Republican, under whose patriarchal auspices he was introduced, and the late Robert Taylor, Democrat? as illustrating the spirit in which he hoped the national election will be decided...
...many of the Rothschilds still play the game at which they cannot lose, there are some members of the family who have turned from gold to other interests. Most prominent of these is Baron Henri de Rothschild, M. D., of Paris. He considers himself a physician, an author a sportsman???forgets the golden touch of Jewry except when he flings down a million francs here, or 40 million there in philanthropy...
Moreover, sports were little understood in Spain, especially at this period of her history; and the fact that her monarch was devoted to polo, fond of riding, shooting, yachting, motoring? because, in fact, he was an all-round sportsman???the people suspected that all was not well with him. El juego sportivo?that was not for Spaniards. Indeed, the king's star was not in the ascendant...
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