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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1925
Page
18
Paavo Nurmi aims to set a new world record in every race and has largely succeeded. The Finnish distance great is shown defeating Willie Ritola in the 5000 meters, and the inset shows him after the finish. He eschews vanity and commercial gain, training hard and declining pro offers and publicity.
Urban Shocker of the Toronto club in the International League pitched 11 scoreless innings against Rochester on July 22 1916 allowing no hits and ending with a 1 to 0 11 inning victory. His three bagger in the eleventh carried the win and set a league wide hitless record above class C.
Whitney of New York has 15 entries, the largest total for the 1925 Breeders Futurity to be run at the Kentucky Association track in Lexington this fall. W. J. Coe and Harry F. Sinclair each list 14 entries from the Rancocas stable, with 208 eligible thoroughbreds entered overall.
Ernest E Beary, a Severance Kansas native and Washburn College alumnus and former coach in 1918, was unanimously elected head football coach for the University of Nebraska. Beary photographed as assistant coach prior to taking the top job.
Washington plans to form an athletic club modeled after London’s National Sporting Club. Local businessmen seek a site and members to charter and launch a club focusing on boxing wrestling basketball and other indoor sports.
Sioux City oilman turned wrestler Wayne Munn recalls his wife’s push to pursue athletics over business. After quitting refining work in 1919 he pursued boxing and wrestling, rising to face Ed Lewis in Kansas City. The title bout gate neared 40 thousand dollars, but his share left him flat broke.
Dr. James A. Hayne reports 1924 saw higher births and deaths in South Carolina with the birth rate at 25.8 and the death rate 12.9 per 1000. Typhoid cases rose from 223 to 330, while 184 413 ampules of bacteria were distributed. Rabies cases surged with 1 063 patients treated. Dr. W A Boyd in Columbia aided over 100 crippled children through a $5 000 appropriation.
Germany lists 900 swimming clubs with 170000 members. Henley regatta to be rowed on Thames England July 1 23 and 4. Buckey Harris to receive 15000 for piloting Washington club this season. World records fallen and one equaled last year in track and field. A new Los Angeles ballpark rises for the Pacific Coast league. Willie Smith makes 25 high runs from 503 to 1173. St Louis Cards used four men at short in 1924. Oxford plans to send boxers to challenge American colleges. Giants and White Sox to tour Chile Brazil and Argentina after pennant season. Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society to host fifth annual boys amateur championship next August.
The Senate voted 27 to 3 to pass a bill mandating a uniform system of textbooks in all public schools of South Carolina. The measure, given its third reading, becomes effective June 1927 and schools refusing the prescribed books will be denied state aid under the act.
A bill from Senator R. R. Tison of Jasper would set public school sessions from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or equivalent for all grades except first and second. Teachers in grades above two must teach or supervise six hours daily, with one hour ten minutes for intermission. First and second grade hours would be set by school trustees, principals, and teachers.
A state appropriation bill totaling 6,493,746.30 is introduced by Ways and Means. It plans 2.5 million from a six mill education tax and 642,000 for the Education Department to cover the gap if the McLaurin Riley bill passes. If the measure fails, the deficit rises to 3,142,000 and total appropriations reach 8,993,746.30.
A favorable report on the Freeman of Marlboro bill to accept the Fletcher Memorial school in Marlboro county was decided. W B and J A Fletcher offer buildings and land for educational use valued at $500000 and agreed to erect new buildings to house a total 300 students and donate additional land.
Mrs. F. B. Hadden of Macon Georgia credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with healing her after two months bedridden by illness. She reports regaining strength in two weeks and endorses the product, noting long-term improvements and willingness to answer letters. Druggists carry the remedy.
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