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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Tunney chapter says: ". . . Boxing up to this time [circa World War] had a most dreadful inheritance in the way of reputation. ... As a rule, they [prize-fighters, managers et al.] were sinister people with few scruples, vulgar and brutal to a marked degree . . . branded as outcasts . . . until the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Patriarch Revised | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Many and many a famed stalwart besides Christian Keener Cagle was last week watching plays being diagnosed upon a blackboard and making phantom first downs across an empty field and plunging ferociously at a tackling dummy. Yale heard that Freddy Loeser would play center this season despite the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cagle & Co. | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Of the three most famed U. S. dentists one is a duck-hunter, two are golfers. "Doc" Oscar F. Willing lives in Portland, Ore., and was runner-up in the National Amateur golf championship at Pebble Beach (TIME, Sept. 16). Dr. Henrik Shipstead lives in Minnesota and in addition to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oldsters | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Seventy-two holes of tournament golf is a lot of tournament golf for a woman when it is all medal play. The first such tournament was played last week at the Flossmoor club near Chicago where women's par is 80 strokes. Four times par was broken and once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lady Medalists | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

When Convict Burns was returned to Georgia, the wife who sent him there was implicitly condemned by the press for jealousy and revenge on the strength of Burns's story in the American. Last week Mrs. Burns, through Attorney Theodore William Miller of Chicago, filed libel suit against the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Villainess v. Villain | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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