Amarillo to form all local amateur baseball team
Amarillo plans a summer all local amateur baseball squad to play without salaries, field captains B C Ravey and Cal Farley, and train with residents eligible if they qualify. The team will seek challenges from Panhandle towns and play home games on their grounds after the high school season ends.
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Skip Sutton
Illinois Is Relay Victor In Rice Meet
Illinois won first in the relay events at Rice Carnival beating Butler for a single point. Jackson V. Scholz Jose Ray Harold Osheim starred as over 460 athletes from eight states competed. Osbone attempted to better six feet eight and fifteen sixteenths in the high jump but failed.
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Sufalloes Arrange for Hard Opponents in Spring Schedule
Special to The News from Canyon March 28. Soach Eckhardt drills West Texas State Teachers College nine as spring games approach. Pitching is erratic but coaching believes weather will sharpen control. Twelve uniforms issued with two remaining. team heavily raw but Eckhardt hopes a fast lineup emerges. Schedule includes Goodwell A and M at Canyon and Roswell clashes with Cadets, Simmons College, McMurray College, A C C at Abilene, Daniel Baker at Brownwood, and Roswell Cadets and A C College at Canyon.
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Sixteen Entered for Coffroth Handicap at Tiajuana
Sixteen thoroughbreds in training at Tiajuana track are entered for the Coffroth handicap over one and one quarter miles to be run tomorrow. The race carries $50,000 added and is expected to net the winner about $66,000. Chilhowee, the famous Kentucky horse, carries top weight of 128 pounds, Sunspero 121 pounds follow.
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A Word to the Wise Benefit for a Sister in Alabama
A speaker recalls being summoned to Brewton Alabama where his sister lay near death. Doctors offered only risky surgery and she was gravely ill with yellowing skin and gas. He bought Mayr's Wonderful Remedy and within weeks she recovered enough to walk to church, leading him to praise the product.
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Mayr
Randal Drug Co
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Baseball Star's Early Life and Major League Feats
Born in St Louis Missouri on May 4 1893 this player joined the Browns in 1916 after a stint with the St Louis Federal League club He was sent to Salt Lake in 1917 and recalled in 1918 He set the American League single season mark with 179 one base hits in 1921 and led the league with 71 at bats that year He tallied 260 or more safe hits in four straight seasons and compiled a strong career in the Pacific Coast League pattern.
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Plainview Plans Another Double Wrestling Show
Plainview features Cal Farley in a Thursday double bill with Arthur Saxon and Jack Gorman. Jack Hudson of Woodward, Oklahoma opposes Gorman in a timed bout. Saxon and Farley duel to a finish as the crowd expects strength against agility.
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Correct Time Requests Rise at Western Union
Daily about 250 callers seek the correct time as clocks vary, with over 260 inquiries reported. J W Gilliam, local manager, notes Western Union is ready to help and that naval time can be obtained on request. Extra operators have been added in larger cities to supply time quotes. Telegraph calls can be phoned in and charged to the telephone trunk.
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J. W. Gilliam
Western Union
Young Stribling Beats Loughran In Ten Round Decision
Associated Press report from San Francisco states Georgia's Young Stribling won a referee's decision after ten rounds over Philadelphia’s Tommy Loughran. Stribling pressed the pace, landed cleaner blows, and kept Loughran tied up through much of the bout.
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Young” Stribling
Georgia
Tommy Loughran
Philadelphia
Panenean
Tunney Gibbons bout eyed for June at Polo Grounds
May Meet Gibbons report from St Paul says Jimmy De Forest of the Polo Athletic Club expects a 15 round Tunney versus Tommy Gibbons title fight to be closed within 24 hours with Gibbons and fans headed to Chicago to meet Kane to discuss receipts and date. The offer is 30 percent of receipts for Gibbons for a June 12 showdown at the Polo grounds.
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Bryan Wondering About Belt After Title Win
Detroit March 28 The American junior welterweight title holder Pinkey Mitchell refused to relinquish the belt after losing to Bryan Red Herring. Herring’s camp has urged Thomas Andrews of Milwaukee to turn over the belt, but no reply was received as the matter remained unresolved in Gulfport, Mississippi and underway through managers.
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Detroit
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Red) Herring
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Thomas Andrews
Milwaukee
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Herring
Andrews
Gulfport
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Spring League Baseball Results From Multiple Cities
A compact summary of scattered results across spring league games featuring teams like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Denver. Standout pitchers and batters include Nehf, Barnes, Coveleskie, Ruel, and others as line scores show varied wins and losses across Houston, Shreveport, Texarkana, Winter Haven, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Omaha, Saint Petersburg, Wichita Falls, and more.
Legion National Guard Smoker Planned for Wednesday
The Legion National Guard will host a smoker at the armory on Third and Fillmore streets at 7 30 Wednesday evening. The program will be short and snappy with food provided by the arrangements committee led by Lewis P. Fields, chairman, and including W C Allen R R Nation Royce P. Gant H V Elkington and J C Sebastian.
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H. V. Elkington
J. C. Sebastian
Dodge Brothers Dealers to Race for Dodge Memorial Trophy
Horace E Dodge Boat Works plans a memorial race at the Miami meeting in March open to all boats under rules of the American Power Boat Association. J R Cullum leads about 29 Dodge Brothers dealers who commissioned ships designed by George K. Crouch to compete for the Columbus era silver trophy. The trophy will be raced for year after year with a vellumed inscribed book, and Horace E Dodge will not compete in the first year.
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Texas
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Featherweight title claim sparks boxing dispute
Boston March 28 Charlie Cardio manager of Red Chapman of Chelsea says Chapman defeated Johnny Dundee and thus claims the world featherweight championship. He argues Dundee’s loss leaves Chapman as champion until defeated, while Kaplan of Meriden is cited as the tournament winner in the challenging line.
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Oxford Quits Race as Boat Swamps in Cambridge Challenge
Oxford quit the annual boat race with Cambridge leading by about 120 yards after rough water swamped the Oxford boat. The Oxians abandoned after about two miles of rowing in Putney on March 28 as Cambridge held the advantage throughout.
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Six Rage Horses Die in Fire at Orlando Stables
Six famous horses perished in a blaze that razed a White stables building at the Orlando track in Florida. Three of nine horses inside the structure were saved, as investigators seek the cause. The loss is estimated at about $160,000.
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Associated Press
Orlando
Fila
SPORT SCREEN FLICKERS AND FANS HOPE FOR RECOVERY
The piece notes Farley’s hoped recovery this week and requests another strong match as the season nears its end. It remarks on the Sandies losing a game after speculation on their strength and references Pancho Villa’s weight class shift and a bruising bout involving Eddie Martin. It also mentions Fort Worth’s June pigeon event, Rabbit Maranville’s lingering leg injury, and a call to back the Isaac Walton club amid a broad sportsgut mood.
Abilene athlete ties state broad jump record
Roy Stevens of Abilene high school tied the state interscholastic record in the running broad jump with 23 feet 1/2 inch at the county track meet. Abilene won the meet by a wide margin, reflecting strong team performance.
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Associated Press
Abilene
Roy Stevens
Jinx Chases Cubs as Spring Training Woes Persist
Big League Weekly Digest reports Earl Combs homering to tie a Savannah game 4 4 in the ninth as Rochester and Brooklyn, Giants and Senators exhibitions unfold. Cincinnati’s Eddie Roush homers off a gate. Bulldogs and Browns face holdouts and injuries amid spring camps in Tampa, Leesburg, Tarpon Springs and St. Petersburg.
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