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...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Quentin Romero, 196 pound pugilistic champ of Chile, fell before the bruising, battering attack of Floyd Johnson, 199 pound lowan. Romero, his face a bloody smear, fell in the seventh round, .lay prone while the timer tailed off: ten seconds. Whether he was really "out" or whether he could not understand the Anglo-Saxon numerals as shouted by the referee are questions which were afterwards debated...
...himself appeared surprised to find that the tout was over for when the bell rang immediately after he had been counted out he jumped to his feet. His supporters wished to take the matter up with the timer, were prevented from injuring someone by the timely arrival of special patrolmen...
...performing the remarkable feat of running the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat, long before the advent of the crouching start. Besides these and many medals for winning places in various meets, there are several dozen badges presented to him for officiating at athletic meets as referee or timer after his days as an active runner...
...ARCHER, U. S. A.-R. H. Platt, Jr.-Doubleday ($2.50). The self-told tales of an old timer in the army, "translated into writing from the oral," are made into a book. It is the life story of a man who satisfied his wanderlust in the Army. He took a hand at San Juan, in Luzon, in the Boxer Rebellion, in an Honduran revolution, in the Great War, and tells about them all as his personal adventures. The book has no style except the lingo of the doughboy, but it makes a flowing tale that carries the reader off forgetfully...
...Lauder, Sir Harry. . . . Educ; by Stumpy Bell as a half-timer in Arbroath. Career varied: first, mill-boy in flax-spinning mill, then a miner, now is what the people have made him. . . . Recreations: trying to hit a wee gutty ba', trying to catch salmon and trout, motoring...