New Swimming Star and Baseball Notes Stir Sports World
The intercollegiate 220 yard champion J K Shryock of the University of Pennsylvania stunned foes by an indoor 100 yard time of 51 4-5 seconds, challenging Charles M Daniels. Mordecai Brown and Bris tol Lord, both noted for three finger throws, are highlighted as top baseball talents with remarkable throwing power and potential impact.
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Charles M. Daniels
J. K. Shryock
University
Pennsylvania
Daniels
Schryock
Japanese anti gambling closes many race tracks
Washington man with two fingers on his left hand describes Japan's anti gambling crusade that shuttered sixteen tracks. J J Carst of Yokohama reports racing boomed after the war with large sums wagered, then bans on tracks hit owners hard and a plan to stage meetings at Vladivostok where betting remains allowed.
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Japan
J. J Carst
Yokohama
San Francisco
Vladivostok
American and English Davis Cup ties set for September
American lawn tennis players win the international Davis Cup ties for the United States. The English cup team will face the Americans in September in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Cricket Club courts in Germantown. The result marks a triumph for American tennis diplomacy. Ambidextrous Golf Player: Robert Smith wins a buggy competition at Hunter's Hill Sydney. he uses equal numbers of left and right handed clubs. Wodell to Lead Vale: Ruthven Adriance Wodell of Poughkeepsie elected Yale varsity eight captain for 1910. at 21, 6 ft 1 in, 172 lb. rowed No 8 vs Harvan this year, previously in Yale varsity four and freshman eight.
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Philadelphia
Boston
Philadelphia Cricket Club
St. Martin's Green
Germantown
Sydney
Australia
Hunter's Hill
Robert Smith
Smith
Ruthven Adriance Wodell
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Yale
Wodell
Harvan
Cook Elected Cornell Track Captain
Edward T. Cook was elected captain of the Cornell track team. He previously trained with the American Olympic squad last summer and cleared 12 feet 2 inches in pole vaulting.
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Cook
Cornell
Edward T. Cook
Free to Homeseekers in Nevada Land Openings
Government lands in the Truckee Carson Irrigation project offer thousands of farms to bona fide homeseekers. The only cost besides a tiling fee is a pro rata share of irrigation system cost set at 30 dollars per acre, payable in ten equal installments. No drawing or chance. apply at Carson City or Fallon offices. The Nevada area promises alfalfa cereals fruits and a strong home market with reliable water supply and transport links.
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Truckee-Carson
Nevada
Carson City
Fallon
New
Life Job Offer For Honesty Declines $100 Monthly Position
Brakeman William J. Robeson of the Long Island railroad, after discovering a hand bag belonging to Mrs. A Schwab containing $30,000 in jewelry, declines a life position and instead is promoted from brakeman to collector. Robeson, twenty two and with four years of service, hopes to advance to a conductor role paying seven times $100 monthly. He found the bag on a Rockaway to Long Island City run and turned it over to the railroad, where it was identified as Mrs Schwab’s residence at 318.
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West Eighty-fourth Street
New York City
Hammels Station
William J. Robeson
Long Island Railroad
A. Schwab
Robelen
Rockaway
Long Island City
Diamond gown for Anna Held to star in world’s most startling dress
Actress Anna Held plans a farewell appearance in a diamond gown crafted in Paris from her jewelry. The rose pink gown features a silver tissue overlay, white diamond bodice, and a diamond clasped hip to knee opening, with a gray meteor cloak and pearl pipe fringe.
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Anna
Anna Held
Miss Held
Paris
New York American
National target range eyed near Washington
United States army officers advocate a national target range with ample area for army navy and marine corps practice. They propose purchasing 15 000 or 20 000 acres of land in Virginia near Washington for facilities and training.
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United States Army
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Virginia
Washington
The Call of the Air
A poem cherishing flight and buoyant longing for an aero plane. The speaker yearns to rise above woodlands and towns to view river and moonlit fields, dreaming of spaceborn skies and planetary seas, but the machine remains grounded.
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J. Eangen
THE
Sporting World
Shryock
Mordecai Brown
Chicago Nationals
Bristol Lord
Cleveland Americans
Lord
Birmingham
Naps
Huelsman
New Orleans
Vale
Liz Pigcott
East Hume &J
Aberdeen Livery & Transfer Co. C. BE. Murray
Aberdeen Carriage Company
Peter Ibsen
General Blacksmiths
Wishkah Str
Warsaw
Stowers & Kopzinski
Aberdeen
Harper
Kentucky
Fred Hewett
Humboldt
South
F Street
Wash
L. L. Maley
Telephone 1701
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