First Checker Games Set For Tonight In City Light Tournament
The Amarillo Globe reports the first practice meeting for the city checker championship will be at 7 30 tonight in the City Light and Water offices 518 A Taylor Street. W B McSpadden says rooms boards and chairs will be ready and spectators welcome. Entrants B E W Peck and K H C McQueen seek early start and a definite tournament date may be announced tonight.
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City Light and Water Company
Taylor Street
W. B. McSpadden
The
City Light and Water
Globe
BE. W. Peck
Kh. CC
McQueen
Amarillo Globe
Oporta
MeSpadden
Girls to Meet in Big Cage Tilt at Nat Four Teams Signed
A city girls basketball tournament is set for next week with four teams: The Anarillo Whirlwind high school team, another unnamed high school squad, Cooper-Irvin Motor Company, and Northwest Texas Hospital. Practice starts this afternoon at The Nat, first game Monday night. John J. McCarty of The Globe directs the event, part of the boys championship cage meet. Admission is 24 cents per game or a $1.50 season ticket. Managers will lead an intensive ticket drive.
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Anarillo
John J. McCarty
Globe Staff
Former Amarillo Gassers Players to Join Wichita Falls Team
Silick Morgan once a top pitcher for the Amarillo Gassers in 1923 and Howard Fitzgerald, an outfielder and slugger from the 1922 Gassers, are slated to report to the Wichita Falls Texas League club for training. Morgan led the Panhandle-Files Valley league in 1929 with Lubbock and joined Wichita Falls last season before moving to the Chicago Cubs. Fitzgerald joined the Cubs in 1922 and is returning for a fourth season in the Three I League after a late 1920 sale to Wichita Falls.
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Tra “Silick’ Morgan
Amarillo Gassers
Howard Fitzgerald
Wichita Falls
Die’ Morgan
Lubbock
Chicago Cubs
Fitzgerald
Cubs
Captain Ozier Keeps Razor From 55 Years Past
Captain J. W. Ozier of 1510 Harrigan street uses a French made razor taken from a hardware merchant in Louisville. The razor, in its original case, bears the inscription Jacques Lecoultre au Sentier. He has used the razor for fifty five years and entered it in the oldest razor contest.
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Ozier
J. W. Ozier
Harrigan Street
Capt Oder
Jacques Lecoultre
Sentier
Captain Ozier
Record Shattering Trio To Compete Tonight At Garden
Madison Square Garden hosts the record shattering trio Paavo Nurmi Willie Ritola and Wil Ne Plant tonight Nurmi with the Finnish American A C features in a 2 1 2 tile run Plant faces Olympic Italian Ugo Frigerio Ritola runs in a special 5 000 meter race The aim is to help improve the Panhandle.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Paavo Nurmi
Willie Ritola
Wil Ne Plant
Nurmi
Plant
Ugo Frigerio
Ritola
Edgrens sports column notes boxing comings and goings
Tex Rickard doubts Dempsey will retire and expects him to box again next summer with Gibbons and Wills as possible opponents. Johnson to box Tut Jackson in Michigan for charity on February 12 is announced. Notre Dame coach Rockne plans to stay, while California begins to regulate boxing with a new commission guiding promoter permits.
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Tex Rickard
Dempsey
Rickard
Gibbons
Wills
Jack
Rockne
Notre Dame
California Boxing Commission
Assemblyman Morrison
San Francisco
Jack Johnson
Tut
Jackson
Michigan
Johnson
Ell Syndicate
Tne
Santa Fe Enters Loop Tourney With Five Teams Competing
The Santa Fe squad joins Amarillo Golden Sandstorm Amarillo Dustorm All-Stars Amarillo Business College and The Amarillo Globe in the Loop city championship tournament six teams total. Play begins Monday with teams to be announced that night the title decided on an elimination basis culminating in a three game final. Practice started Monday and squads plan full vigils Tuesday.
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Santa Fe
Amarillo Golden Sandstorm
Amarillo Dustorm
All-Stars
Amarillo Business College
Amarillo Globe
Gas gathering expansion boosts San Antonio supply
Extension of the gathering system to the new fields in the south part of Live Oak and the north part of San Patricio counties will add much to the gas supply for this city.
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San Antonio
Live Oak
San Patricio Counties
Public Sale of Impounded Stock in Amarillo
The City of Amarillo will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the City Pound gates Fourth and Monroe streets between 2 and 4 p.m. on Wednesday February 11 1925 the described impounded livestock Swatters 1 Red White Faced male calf J F Bassett Poundkeeper.
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Amarillo
Fourth
Monroe
J. F. Bassett
Line Sport Notes From Amarillo Basketball Season Preview
This column blends checker tournament chatter with basketball talk as Amarillo teams prep at Tha Nat. Mascot ideas drift from North Pole to Aurora Borealis, while coach and player quips reflect local sports culture and community support.
Phillies Aim to Escape cellar with strengthened lineup
Philadelphia seeks a first division push in 1925 after adding eight players from Waterbury, Los Angeles, Nashville and others. Newcomers Yordy Metz Ulrich Kimmick Hiber O Neill Fillfigim and Chicken Hawks join a team that struggled in pitching and third base last season. Manager Fletcher releases three 1924 players as Holke Ford and Wrightstone shape a new infield and Sands steps in at short. Training camp opens February 20 in Bradenton with all players reporting by March 1.
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Ry Tre
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Nationals
Kitty Bransfield
Waterbury
Yordy
Metz
Ulrich
Walter Kimmick
Los Angeles
Beaumont
Hiber
O’ Neill
Chicken
Hawks
Nashville
Filengim
Braves
Wally Pipp
Yanks
Red Sox
O'Neill
Arthur Fletcher
Giants
Phillip B
Lefty Weinert
Lerton Tinto
Andrew Woehrs
Phillies
Fletcher
Walker Holke
Horace Ford
Heike Sands
Russell Wrightstone
Huber
Kimmick
Harry Harper
Cy Williams
Wrights
Jeff
Leveh
Schultz
Mokan
Heineieh
Walter Henline
Jimmy Wilson
Lou Wendell
Jimmy Ring
Charles Glazner
Johnny Couch
Joe Deschexer
Harold
Buffaloes Face N M M I in Two Roswell Games
Buffaloes under Coach Burton travel to Roswell for two midweek games against the New Mexico Military Institute. After a tough road trip the squad aims to keep momentum as they build for upcoming dates with Simmons College North Texas State Teachers College and Trinity University. The old gym hosts while a new facility nears completion around February 16.
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Tor the Globe
Canyon
Buffaloes
Simmons College
North Texas State Teachers’ College
Trinity University
Roswell
Abilene
McMurray College
Abilene Christian College
Strangler Lewis Seeks Comeback Bout at Coliseum
Chicago February 3 A showdown at the Coliseum tonight pits world heavyweight claimant Strangler Lewis against Joe Toots Mondt while Wayne Munn’s demonstration of holds used to defeat Lewis looms.
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Chicago
Strangler’ Lewis
Wayne Munn
Kansas City
Joe ‘'Toots
Mondt
Munn
Lawis
Practice Dates Named For Ten Cage Groups
The Globe announces practice dates for ten basketball squads ahead of its championship tournament. Six boys teams and four girls teams will practice this week with spectators welcome at the Nat in late afternoon and early evening. Girls from Armislllo High start at 4 00, Cooper Irwin Motor Co at 5 30, Northwest Texas Hospital nurses at 7 30, and skating after. Boys and girls alternate on the floor 6 15 to 8 00, with dedicated girls 6 45 to 7 30. Tournament opens Monday at 7 with two games.
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Almarillo High School
Cooper-Irwin Motor Company
Northwest Texas Hospital
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