A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
1937-01-22
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How you'll laugh... and how you'll love it...When this pert little newspaper woman out-wits and out-socks her woman-wise boss!
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