Football Season 10 Opens at Canyon Today
Canyon Texas September 19 Football season starts at West Texas State Teachers College with coach Burton and W K E Lockhart directing the Buffalo camp. Texas star Oscar Eckhardt arrives as line coach and Alvin Jackson from Oklahoma joins as staff. Grady Burson captains the team for a second year while Mitchell Jones and others return. The Simmons Canyon homecoming game October 25 draws exes and fans expect a record crowd.
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Mitchell Jones
Texas
Grady Burson
Odus Mitchell
Floydada
Thompson Boys
Raymond
Walden
Roy
Floyd Golden
Finis Vaughan
Virgil Santi
Ray Bivens
Simmons-Canyon
Exstudents’ Association
Cardinals Sweep Pirates In Pair Of NL Games
In St Louis on September 10 the Cardinals defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 7 to 4 and 6 to 4 in a doubleheader, dealing a heavy setback to Pittsburgh in the pennant race. Batteries were Yde, Kremer and Schmidt for Pittsburgh, Sotheron and Gonzales for St Louis.
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St. Louis
Cardinals
Pittsburgh Pirates
H. E. Pittsburgh
Yde
Kremer
Schmidt
Sotheron
Gonzales
Cowboys Open First Simmons Workout With 40 to 50 Aiming Sturdy Roster
Abilene Texas September 10 Coaches P W Shotwell and Victor Payne call 40 to 50 men to the Cowboys first Simmons gridiron workout with about 25 already committing. Training runs twice daily until the opening of school next Wednesday and faces Baylor Bears at the West Texas fair September 27. Veteran help is light with 15 days to prepare, weight help sought from other West Texas high schools as Abilene high school 1922 standouts plus several veterans return.
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Abilene
Tex
P. W. Shotwell
Victor Payne
Simmons
Baylor Bears
West Texas Fair
Shotwell
Payne
West Texas
Bears
Austin College
Frank Kimbrough
Wright
Stes
Morris
Taylor
MarsSart
Harrison
Cardwell
Stribling Knocks Out Cluckner in Second Round
In Columbus Ohio on Sept 10 Young Stribling of Georgia easily knocked out Glenn Cluckner of Zanesville in the second round of a twelve round bout. Stribling dropped Cluckner with a sweeping right near the start of the second round.
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Columbis
Ohio
Stribling
Georgia
Glenn Cluckner
Zanesville
Oh'o
Galveston defeats Dallas 2–0 in seventy five minute game
Texas League report from Galveston dated Sept 10 describes a 2 to 0 win over Dallas. Key plays include doubles by Whiteman and a Burkett single. The contest lasted seventy five minutes with Galveston securing the shutout.
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Galveston
Whiteman
Burkett
Dallas
Buffs beat Gassers 14 to 1 in Galveston scoreline
Long distance hits by Johnny Kane powered the Buffs to a 14 to 1 win over the Gassers in Galveston on September 10. Batteries listed for the game include Kane for the Buffs and Keck Smith Devin ey McCurdy Krauss for the Gassers.
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Houston
Johnny Kane
Buffs
Gassers
R. H. E. Houston
Shreveport
Keck and Smith
Deviney and McCurdy
Krauss
Jensen Unable to Come Back Farley 1 Winner
Cal Farley, local wrestler, used his old method to finish Jensen in a body hold after twisting the neck and slamming him. Jensen fought back with a figure four and an arm lock for the first fall in forty one minutes, Farley won the second in fifteen minutes, Jensen crawled in for the third but was unable to continue. Referee Box gave the match to Farley with two physicians aiding Jensen.
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Cal Farley
Thor Jensen
Farley
Jensen
Box
Roy Beckwith
Chief Wow Wow
Little Cal
Young Firpo
Young Speck
Little Whitey
Pirates Slump Deepens as Two More Fall
In the brutal pennant race Pittsburgh drops two to Cincinnati while St Louis and the Giants surge. New York and Brooklyn jockey for position. Detroit wins to close in on Washington. The article notes injuries and oddities including 12 year old Lloyd Johnson’s illness and C. C. Timmons’ birthday.
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Lee Pet
Fort Worth
Beaumont Vel
San Antonio
Dallas
Wichita Falls
Houston
ATE
Shreveport
Galveston
Pat
Washington
New York
Detroit
St. Louis
Cleveland
Philadelphia Ye
Boston Rec
Chicago
P. Ww
Li Pet
New York Tree
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati Eee
Philadelphia
Roo Ono
Boston
Associated Press
Cincinnati
Pirates
McKechnie
Giants
Robins
Chick Hafey
Cardinal
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Dick. Dore
Oh. Ey
Morrison, Stone, Meadows and Gooch
Stuart and Clemons
O'Farrell
Weis
R. H
Rixey
Sheehan
Hargrave
Alexander
Hartnett
BR. 1
Mist Field Artillery
William Boyce, Jr
Pild Artillery
Yankees
Senators
R. H. E. New York
Penton
Pennock
Hoyt
Hoffman
Bengough
Quinn
Hoving
Robertson
Connally
Foreman
Crease
Johnson
Holloway
Bassler
Bughouse Fables
Billy DeBeck
Mne
Tee
Bick Ruussece
King Features Syndicate. Inc
Great Britain
North and Lingle
Bira
Fields
Beaumont
Drake
I. Morgan
An Jonnard
O'Neal
McNeil
Bernfen
Kraft
Bischoff
Walters
Marshall
Warwick
W. F. Becktold
Panhandle Music Company
Claude
Biggs Investment Co
West 6Th Street
Amarlilo, Texas
Adventures of
Jack Keefe
Tycos
By Ring Lardner
Quirtin
Dick Dorcas
Louis
Yanks
Red Sox
White Sox
Cobb
Tigers
O’farrell
Reds
Lloyd Johnson
Fast Fifth Street
L. K. Sturgeon
Elk Hotel
Lincoln
Stephens
East Highway
Overland
Ford
Dodge
Oakland
Fancher- Fisher Motor Co
Fillmore
Bath
Elm Glenwood
Polk Street
Greer's Department Store
D. W. Berry
North County Hospital
A. B. Jones
C. C .Timmons
White Deer
Orren Harrah
Amarillo
Amarillo Junk CO
5Th and
Washington Streets
Tyro
Hi. E. Hertner & Son
East Fourth Street
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