Hobbs : Sir John Berry, known as Jack Hobbs (1882-1963). He retired from international cricket in 1934 & in 1953 he became the first cricketer to be knighted.
... figure in the big Barnum circus of journalistic "features" along with or in competition with Joe Louis the prize-fighter, Douglas Fairbanks, H. G. Wells, King George and Queen Mary, Haile Selassie, Hobbs, Hitler, Jack the Ripper (or any modern substitute of his) and Mussolini should Page 687 be strictly banished from the mentality for evermore and the day after. 24 September 1935 ...
... figure in the big Barnum circus of journalistic "features" along with or in competition with Joe Zones, the prize-fighter, Douglas Fairbanks, H. G. Wells, King George and Queen Mary, Haile Selassie, Hobbs, Hitler, Jack the Ripper (or any modern substitute of his) and Mussolini should be strictly banished from the mentality for evermore and the day after.² 24-9-1935 If I tolerate a little ...
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