*Sports+in+the+1920s

JASMINE F., PD.5

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Sports were really getting popular in the 1920's. Sports back in these times where not like today. People were not in it to make the big bucks nor they didnt use steriods like some athlets are gulity of today. Sure people wanted to make money but they did it because the loved doing it and because they were good at what they did. =====

=//**__ GOLF __**//= = = === Golf in the 1920's experienced a major poplularity boom. The number of weekend golfers doubled between 1916 and 1920 to a high of one-half million. Since there was so many golfers there had to be more golf cources built ,private and public. Golf was intended to be more for high class players but the middle class basically took over. ===

Baseball in the 1920's was filled with talented and dedicated players. Ball parks were built and the equipment were more advanced.
 * //__ Baseball __//**
 * Babe Ruth was the baseball legend of the 1920's
 * He hit the total of 60 homeruns in 1927
 * Babe Ruth, earned more than $2 million in his career.
 * Babe Ruth had many other names : Bambino, the Behemoth of Bust, the Blunderbuss, the Colossus of Clout, the Mammoth of Maul, the Mauling Mastodon, the Mauling Monarch, the Prince of Powders, the Rajah of Rap, the Sultan of Swat, and the Wazir of Wham
 * Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936

__ Sports & Media __

Sports started becoming more popular by the second. Participating in watching sporting events became part of all americans everyday lifes. Newspapers magazines ,and radio broadcasts always had the scoop on all the great athlets ,the top stories, and they reported every rumor of secret. They helped advertise all the big events, all the big games, and even help promote athlets to become big stars. The media supplied news but also manufactured it, and in the process they created a huge and excited crowd of satisfied an audience.



__ 1920's News Articles __
 * [[image:http://www.cthulhulives.org/images/ChronicleHeader.gif width="644" height="58" align="center"]] || Section A — General News || [|HPLHS Front Page] ||  ||


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|| Prop newspaper clippings are often used as play aids in gaming to provide Investigator characters with some vital clue. But when you hand a prop newspaper clipping with just one article to a player, it's a dead giveaway that the information in the article is somehow important. It can be much more fun to provide a clipping which contains multiple articles, and leave it to the players to determine for themselves what might be relevant. It gives them a more realistic experience, and allows them the (often amusing) option of failure. An important extra touch of verisimilitude can be added to prop newspaper clippings by having news on the back. Having a prop with printing on both sides, as though it had been clipped from an actual newspaper, intensifies the gaming experience. But the average Keeper doesn't have time to do the research and typing necessary for this little luxury. Below are a selection of actual news articles from various newspapers published in the 1920s. You can cut and paste from the text below into prop newspaper items of your own devising, or you can download the entire collection of news items as an MSWord document by [|clicking this link]. The articles below have been transcribed directly from vintage newspapers, with vintage spelling, capitalization and punctuation left just as it was published, to serve as a model for writing vintage-sounding news stories of your own. We've generally avoided articles about famous events that can be pinned down to particular days, opting for more generic items instead. Some details in some articles have been added or altered slightly in order to give them a whiff of Lovecraftian mystery, which might lead to interesting gaming all by itself.
 * GLENDALE, Calif. — In response to requests from website visitors, the HPLHS is pleased to make available genuine articles from 1920s newspapers, transcribed directly from vintage copies, for use by gamers who wish to make their own prop newspaper clippings.

=Hylan Refuses Bait to go on Bench and Quit Mayor’s Race Foes Realize Need for Keeping Him on Ticket to Block Third-Party Plan. McCooey Calls Leaders Brooklyn Chief Confers with Olnay, but Both Refuse to Tell What Was Said. Meeting of Borough Leaders on Mayoralty Situation Is Put Off Until Next Week.= In a final attempt to avert an open break and keep him in line for the ticket, Democrats who do not believe Mayor Hylan could make a winning fight for a third term yesterday sent friendly emissaries to the Mayor, who now are bringing all their persuasive powers to bear with a view to inducing him to quit the Mayoralty race and accept a nomination for the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial District. Up to last night these envoys of the anti-Hylan Forces had not been able to budge Mayor Hylan from this determination to make a fight for the Mayoralty again. It was stated, however, that the pressure would continue, and that when the Mayor awakened to a realization of his loss of popularity with the voters there was hope that he would yield to their representations.

||  ||  ‘Red’ Grange in Radio Broadcast

New York.—Fresh from a football game for which he had been paid in the neighborhood of $20,000, Harold (“Red”) Grange last night told the largest audience before which he ever appeared that the rewards of football “are spiritual rather than material.” He broadcast a football speech over radio WEAF and twenty-one associated stations as a part of the Near East Relief program for Golden Rule Sunday. During the afternoon he materially aided the Chicago Bears in their 19 to 7 victory over the New York Giants. To his radio audience he said: “Football, I am convinced, is the best game that was ever invented. It demands more than any game from the player. Its rewards are spiritual rather than material, but they are certain. The monetary reward is secondary. “The big thing I have won from football is not this present fortunate break which has enabled me to earn certain monetary rewards, but rather the more permanent matter of a training in courage, stamina and ability to use mind and muscle more effectively.” He also included in his address a diet and schedule—excluding tobacco and liquor—for aspiring athletes; called Bob Zuppke “the greatest football coach that ever lived,” and said his own training as an iceman had been of his own choice and a surprise to his father.


 * Iron Pipe Shopper Kills Charity Worker**

St. Louis, Mo. (AP).—The body of Mrs. Callie Black, 25, one of a number of women who sold “forget-me-nots” on the streets here Saturday for disabled veterans, was found yesterday in an alley. She had been beaten to death with an iron pipe. Russell L. Miller, 21, an express driver, confessed that he committed the crime, police announced.


 * Overcome by Gas**

Alfred Koch, 936 Diamond street, was in the Central Emergency Hospital today recovering from the effects of gas asphyxiation. Koch told police he was the victim of an accident. ||

=//__ Annual Sports Highlights __//=
 * ===1920 in sports - National Football League formed; baseball's Negro National League formed; Babe Ruth sold to New York Yankees and hits 54 home runs, signalling the arrival of the lively ball era in baseball; Cleveland Indians' shortstop Ray Chapman is killed by a Carl Mays pitch; the Grand Prix de Paris horse race changes its name to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe===
 * ===1921 in sports - The schooner Bluenose begins her undefeated career in racing, winning the International Fishermen's Trophy===
 * ===1922 in sports - First sub-one minute 100m freestyle swim===
 * ===1923 in sports - First 24 hours of Le Mans race; Ty Cobb breaks Honus Wagner's major league record for career hits===
 * ===1924 in sports - First Winter Olympic Games; in the Summer Olympics, Paavo Nurmi wins 5 golds in Athletics (track and field)===
 * ===1925 in sports - French Open in tennis opened to non-French players for the first time; first handball international between Germany and Belgium===
 * ===1926 in sports - Jack Dempsey loses his world heavyweight boxing title to Gene Tunney; Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English channel===
 * ===1927 in sports - First Ryder Cup of golf===
 * ===1928 in sports - Women's Olympic athletics and gymnastics are held for the first time at the 1928 Summer Olympics; "Dixie" Dean scores 60 league goals in 39 matches as Everton F.C. win the Football League===
 * ===1929 in sports - Wally Hammond scores 905 runs at an average of 113.12 as England defeat Australia in The Ashes===

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==Football Team was National Champions, the Holy Name/Garfield Cadets were frequently winning DCI/National Drum and Bugle Corps Championships, Tippy Larkin “the Garfield Gunner” was Junior Welterweight Boxing Champion of the World in 1946, and because of the exploits of other Garfield heroes ."http://www.garfieldnj.org/content/62/246/default.aspx ==