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Other educators, athletic arbiters, sportsmen who gave to the press their ready opinions of Mr. Slack's methods, condemned...
...Lewis appeared, his back well bandaged; soon he was lying limp on those bandages. The heavyweight title had passed to Wayne Munn. The crowd went "mad-dog," scrambled on its seats, shook the rafters of Convention Hall as it screeched, boomed, barked salvos of shouts for the victor. Many sportsmen caterwauled at the dejected figure with the bowed head in the centre of the ring. A yokel was heard to shout: "You big bum, I hope you're hurt...
...bars, lunchrooms, paddocks, wherever sportsmen gather, you see them-frayed bravos with cauliflower cars, rakish noses, thick necks, entreating eyes. They catch your glance, they wink, edge over. It is no drink that they want, no sandwich, no news about a pretty thing in the second race. They want to impart something. For these are the fallen kings of boxing,' they who have knocked out champions and never gotten credit for it, who have been champions and are forgotten. Will one of these sidling, loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge...
...peccaries, 40,000 ringneck pheasants, 10,-000 Hungarian partridges, 5,000 bobwhite quail, 400 wild turkeys, 400 wild peafowl, 400 wild guinea-fowl"-it was not the handbill of a bigger and better circus nor a page from Livy, but the proposed stock list of the Pacific Coast Sportsmen's Club, Inc., of Los Angeles. A fortnight ago, a director of that corporation declared it would fence off 50,000 Californian acres-20,000 for carnivorous creatures, 30,000 for milder fauna-and save U. S. sportsmen the trouble of trekking over the globe for exotic prey. There would...
Last week, the Izaak Walton League announced itself to be desirous of money offerings from U. S. sportsmen to make up a Christmas present to the elk herds of the Jackson Hole Region, Wyo. The present would be in the form of lands adjacent to Winter Elk Refuge and of an emergency hay fund, to supplement Federal and State appropriations in starvation winters. Said Dr. E. W. Nelson, Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey: "And a real present in the spirit of the Christmas season it will...