Football

On Nov. 5 the people of New York City will elect a mayor. Outstanding issue in the campaign has been the year-old Rothstein murder case (TIME, Dec. 24) with accompanying charges of laxity and corruption in the present Tammany administration, headed by re-election-seeking Mayor James John Walker. Last fortnight, New Yorkers were surprised to hear that George A. McManus, labelled by the police as The-Man-Who-Killed-Rothstein, would be brought to trial on Oct. 15. Last week New Yorkers were disappointed to hear that the trial had been postponed to Nov. 12. For, said Judge Charles C. Nott Jr., city magistrate, "under no circumstances" would the trial be held while the election was still pending and the case remained a political football. Judge Nott, a Republican, is no Tammany man. Tammany opponents nevertheless flayed the postponement.