Kopec ky Meets Mantell in Clear The Mat Battle
Kopecky faces Mantell in a high profile mat match at the Armory tonight. Mantell brings twenty years more experience, while Kopecky aims for a decisive win. Promoter Elmer Guthrie warns ringside tickets are near sold out as Charley Grip plans a quick fire of local bouts before the main event starting at 8:15.
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Wright
Martell
Alee
Wichita Falls
Elmer Guthrie
Armory
Columbus
Ex-Vets Toast Gene Tunney at New York Banquet
At the Hotel Commodore 509 American Legion members praised heavyweight champion Gene Tunney. Col Theodore Roosevelt presented a gift and called him forthright and principled. Tunney thanked Tex Rickard for purses and urged better war promo funds. General Pershing sent good wishes. Howard P. Savage praised his fighting character.
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Associated Press
New York
Army
Navy
Marines
Gene Tunney
American Legion
Tunney
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Gene
Tex Rickard
Tex
General Pershing
Legionnaires
Cleen
Howard P. Savage
The
Legion
Minajis
Rival Captains Set To Clash In Yale Bowl Showdown
Yale skipper Phil Brunnell and Army captain Orvelle Hewitt clash in a big grid affair at Yale Bowl tomorrow. Brunnell directs football and captains the swimming squad while Hewitt, a veteran back in his third cadet year, is famed for ferocious play. Miller Huggins’ post World Series remark ends the note.
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Phil Bungell
Yale
Hewitt
Army
Brother Hewitt
Orvelle
Tiny
Big Bertha
Pittsburgh
Pep” Warner
Phil Brunnell
Tris
Brunnell
Phil
Keefe Carter Buys Overcoat On Amarillo Arrival
Keefe Carter former Western Open champion shivers in Amarillo as a Rocky Mountain wind sweeps down from the Rockies. He arrives by Rock Island train from Oklahoma City for an exhibition match with Joe Kirkwood and buys an overcoat after the trip.
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Keefe Carter
Amarillo
Rockies
Joe Kirkwood
Rock Island
Oklahoma City
Keefe
Carter
Golden Sandstorm Encamped In Westerners Stronghold For Grid Tilt
By Feg Murray Westerners brace for a key football clash with Amarillo. Westerners recall last year’s 60-3 loss to Amarillo and echo the war cry Remember 50-3 as the game set for 3 o’clock this afternoon. Neither coach released lineups.
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Feg Murray
Amarillo
Lubbock
Middle West Grid War Path Saturday War Lined in 1925 clash
The East leads the intersectional gridiron race as the Middle West prepares a severe weekend. Michigan Illinois Missouri Notre Dame Haskell Michigan State face top East and West Virginia Bucknell Colgate battles loom in premier 1925 matchups. The East has won seven of eleven against the Middle West.
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Associated Press
New York
Middle West
Michigan
Ilinois
Missouri
Notre Dame
Red Skins
Haskell
Wolverines
Navy
Baltimore
Knute Rockne
Hoosiers
Georgia Tech
South Bend
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Red Grange
Illinois
Franklin Field
West Virginia
Charley” Moran
Centre Colonels
Michigan State
Corneil
Colgate
East
South
Texas Cinder Men Out Fifty Strong In Fall
Texas Longhorns coach Clyde Littlefield leads 60 fall practice candidates as 1926 stars depart. Captain Aubrey Cockrell is expected to headline the 1927 team with new leaders and strong sprinters aiming for another Southwest Conference title.
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Texas
Associated Press
Austin
Texas University
Clyde Littlefield
Longhorns
Littlefield
Rufus W. Haggard
Gustine
Chicago
Haggard
Stuart Wright
Dallas
Sandy Esquivel
el Paso
Wright
Leo Baldwin
Wichita Falls
Reynolds
Glass
Neblett
Budd
Bubar
Nichols
Aubrey Cockrell
Alvin
Fleet
Wilson
Texas Aggies
Cockrell
Prison News Publishes Dishonor Roll From State Prison
The Prison News, North Carolina's fresh publication printed at State Prison in Raleigh, features items of inmate interest and the Prison Dishonor Bell. The first issue targets a state-wide readership and is written and printed by the prisoners themselves.
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International News Service
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
State Prison
Four Spitball Pitchers Still Active in American League
Only four spitball pitchers remain in the American League Jack Quinn of the Athletics Red Faber of Chicago Urban Shocker of New York and Stanley Coveleskie of Washington continue to work the mound in 1916.
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Jack Quinn
The
Athletics
Red Faber
Chicago
Urban Shocker
New York
Stanley Coveleskie
Washington
Strange Coincidence In Baseball Series
Joe Judge of Washington often fails to homer in St Louis games. Bill Jacobson of Boston has seen a similar pattern in matchups with Philadelphia.
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Joe Judge
Washington
St. Louis
Bill Jacobson
Boston
New Philadelphia
Grid Coaches Not Immune To Superstition
Meet football coaches are superstitious and Nob Zappke of Hiinets is no exception. Red Grange in his first pour wore number TT on his back and had a big era. Coach Papphe insisted Grange join tieee wrerlieg the TT. Med ee willing customer. All of which leads were the 44 Presty Peters wrens om bie back, there theme the thorpene qearters of the freeee 1 Chenpeige, Th oe, in thete the fee ernie tee ww. Faeeee eohet 44 week be o teety mewkes ter Petree Beehell ove
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Nob Zappke
Hiinets
Red Grange
Papphe
Chenpeige
Ernie Tee
Teety Mewkester Petree Beehell
Visitors and locals mingle in Amarillo week
A string of visitors stops in Amarillo including Juanita Schaeffer staying with her parents at 2105 Fillmore and Mrs. L. N. Jensen returning from a ten day trip through San Antonio Dallas and southern Texas. Also noted are Carl Hibbs in Lubbock and others from Dallas and Detroit visiting or passing through, with L. K. Chambers from Chicago in town on business. A golf column advises keeping shoulders on the same plane in the swing to improve accuracy.
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Juanita Schaeffer
Foss
Oklahoma
A. A. Schaeffer
Fillmore Street
Wichita Falls
Hugh Hamilton
Dallas
N. M. Cooper
Detroit
Amarillo
L. K. Chambers
Chicago
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Kopecky
Mantell
N.Y
Ruxton
Miller Huggins
Yankee
Metropolitan Newspaper Service
Cheviots
Fountinac
Melton
Herowet
Gambon
Fee Devlin Sede Cote
Middle - West
Oman
Tere
H. B. Martin
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Lovera
Lovera Cigar
Consolidated Cigar Corporation
Western Wholesale Co
Amarillo, Texas
Elites
Coronas
Vanderbilt
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