Bowery Champs (1944)

Francis Ford: Newspaper Sports Writer

Quotes 

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Say, uh, how do you spell cata-strophy?

  Old Sports Writer : Can o' what?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Oh, you're so unintelligible. "Cata-strophy." A big thing, you know? Everybody gets moidered. Everybody's gettin' killed. "Cata-strophy."

  Old Sports Writer : Never heard of the animal.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Hey, Joe, you went as high as the fifth grade. Spell me "Cata-strophy," will ya?

  Newspaper Sports Writer : If you're referring to the word catastrophe, meaning a calamity of great magnitude from the Latin and Greek derivation...?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : I ain't interested in the Latins and the Greeks. I'm talkin' about a baseball game. Aw, forget it. I'll use mass-e-crate.