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...morning three weeks ago, milk wagon drivers and early risers in Portland, Ore. saw a huge dark marine shape diving about in Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. "Sportsmen" started shooting at it until Governor Julius L. Meier issued orders against it. By the end of a week the creature had been identified as a small killer whale which had wandered 100 mi. up from the sea. Press & populace named it Ethelbert. The Oregon Humane Society decided Ethelbert would never get back to sea, should be painlessly destroyed by dynamite. Before the dynamiting could...
Texas is here to show off the qualities of the bullish name they bear. Down in the southwest they have showed themselves to be great sportsmen, hard players of great endurance. Why not show the cast a few wrangler's tricks? For Harvard the game will not be a major one, but its importance in the Texas schedule cannot be inconsiderable. A victory over Harvard will be a distinct scalp for the belt of the bovine aggregation, and after coming the breadth of the country to take on the Crimson football men, the ranchers will not fail to offer enough...
Died. Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 81, most famed of British sportsmen, self-made tea tycoon; in his sleep after a ten-day cold; in London. Born in a Glasgow tenement, he went to the U. S. at 15 seeking his fortune, returned when he had saved $500. He had worked in a grocery shop in New York, saw possibilities in the U. S. way of displaying and selling green groceries. His first shop in Glasgow was a success, with Proprietor Lipton behind the counter in white overalls and an apron. From the beginning he believed in advertising, kept his shop...
...read in several of the Detroit newspapers that some of America's leading motor magnates, industrialists and sportsmen admirers of Kaye Don are forming a syndicate, financing it with American money to see that Kaye Don has a boat to enter in the Harmsworth race in 1932. Boat to race under British Flag and to try to take cup from...
...more interesting pursuits. Before he was 37 years old he had been arrested 37 times, but had been in prison only twice. Gaining skill, he went to London, opened a gaudy gaming place in Kensington, and as "The Honorable Lionel Musgrave, United States Senator," collected $800,000 from British sportsmen before he found it wise to depart. In Ceylon his fame spread when he swindled an Indian jewel merchant out of a basket of gems worth $250,000. In 1913, before Philadelphia police closed "The National Old Age Pension Bureau," he had made $50,000 more. As old age came...