Texas College Football Opens 1929 Season With Three Key Games
Baylor faces Stephen F. Austin as a conference title contender while SMU meets Denton Teachers and Texas faces Southwest Teachers College San Marcos. Coaches Littlefield and Strahan oversee drills as prep intensifies with 10,000 free tickets issued for the SMU Denton game and Baylor-SFU viewed as the highlight of the opening weekend.
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Richard L. Harknes
United Press
Dallas
Texas
Baylor University
Southwestern
Stephen F. Austin College
Ray Morrison
Southern Methodist University
Denton Teachers
Texas University
Southwest Teachers’ College of San Marcos
Baylor
Stephen F. Austin
Morrison
Angs
Denton
S. M. U.-Denton
Texas University-Southwest
Clyde Littlefield
Longhorns
Oscar Strahan
San Marcos
Littlefield
Car Evolution Traces to Benz In Munich Forty Three Years Ago
The article notes that 43 years have passed since Carl Benz linked a gas engine to a vehicle and drove it in Munich marking the start of the modern automobile. It emphasizes the single cylinder origin and the development into today’s cars.
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Carl Benz
Munich
Olympic spectacle looms as Los Angeles plans bold 1932 games
Sport writer Alan Gould notes Los Angeles 1932 Olympics promise unprecedented scale with a 105000 seat Coliseum expansion and harbor regatta venues. Strong nations including Germany Finland England Canada and Japan show renewed enthusiasm as California aims to host the greatest show in Olympic history. Georgia Tech loses Father Lumpkin but retains Mizell and Thomason as standouts.
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Los Angeles
Stockholm
Paris
Amsterdam
Coliseum
Southern California
Exposition Park
Los Angeles Harbor
Germany
Finland
England
Canada
Japan
China
Orient
California
Lumpkin
Texas
Georgia Tech
Tech
Tornado
Warner Mizell
Stumpy Thomason
Trunk Proportions in Man Relative to Height
The trunk length is more than one third and less than two fifths of total height. This measurement places the torso between 33 and 40 percent of an individual’s stature, indicating a mid range proportion.
Bobby Hopes To Play Golf at 50
Robert Tyre Jones said on the road home from his upset National Amateur elimination that he does not know how long he will play competitively but hopes to still be able to golf well at age sixty.
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Bobby
United Press
Kansas City
Robert Tyre Jones
Revival in San Jacinto Draws Crowds
The San Jacinto Baptist revival in a tent at Seventh and Carolina Street attracts large nightly crowds for Rev. Jack Winsett's sermon "The Cowboy Round-Up" in full cowboy regalia. He promises a future divine judgment roundup and invites all to attend.
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San Jacinto
Seventh and
Carolina Street
Jack Winsett
Blind Bogey One Club Golf Tourney Promises Novel Play
Jack Bush River Drive pro hosts a Sunday blind bogey golf event. Entrants pay 50 cents, receive about four dozen golf balls to winners, pick any club, set their own handicap, and compare 18 hole net scores to the blind bogey to win. A large crowd is expected with flexible tee times.
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Jack Bush
River Drive Pro
Tuffy Faces Australian George Cook Tonight At Chicago Stadium
Gerald Ambrose Griffith known as Tuffy takes on Australia’s George Cook in the feature boxing bout at Paddy Harmon's Chicago stadium. The hard punching contender aims to bar foreign challengers from the championship picture after recent wins in New York. Chicago fans back the Middle Western fighter with odds around 8 to 6.
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Chicago
Gerald Ambrose Griffith
Western Plains
Jack Dempsey
Gerald Ambrose
Ludwig Haymann
Germany
New York
Tuffy
Jack O'Keefe
Otto von Porat
Norway
Max Schmeling
Cook
Paulino
Heeney
Walberg Malone Spark World Series Contenders In Diamond Wins
Walberg shut out the Giants era rival with a five to four win at Shibe Park. Malone followed with a six to zero victory over the Giants as the Cubs and Pirates split in Pittsburgh. Johnson and Kolp led several other decisive performances in a day of varied results.
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Walberg and Malone
Messrs
Grove
Bush
Carlson
Connie Mack
Joe McCarthy
Rube Walberg
Pat Malone
Walberg
Shibe Park
Bengals
Detroit
Cubs
Malone
Giants
Boston
Pittsburgh
Pirates
Bostonese
Ray Kolp
Phillies
Cincinnati
Reds
Washington
Senators
Browns
Walter Johnson
White Sox
Yankees
Hal McKain
Coronado Expedition Inspires 1930 High School Annual Drawings
Coronado's expedition, said by historians to have crossed the Plains near Amarillo in search of the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola, provides the motif for the 1980 La Airosa yearbook art. Pencil sketches depict marching troops, plains, Indians, friars, and Buffalo era scenes to be transformed into three color plates.
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Coronado
Amarillo
Cibola
la Airosa
Russell & Cockrell
Buffalo
Dorothy Nugent
Neely
Fear for Four Passengers on French Ship
Casablanca dispatch reports fear for the safety of four French passengers and the pilot of the missing Toulouse to Casablanca Aero Postal plane. Wreckage found along a beach between Mersa and Zegra identified as parts of the last single seater plane. The Sox drove Pipgras from the mound as Milton Gaston pitched Boston to a 3 2 win over Cleveland in a tense game.
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Casablanca
Morocco
Aero Postal Plang
Mersa
Zegra
Sox
Pipgras
Milton Gaston
Red Sox
Cleveland
Willis Hudlin
Twenty Planes Deliver Fort Worth Good Will Flight
Twenty planes carried 73 Fort Worth residents for the second annual Fort Worth good will aerocade. The four day tour visited Monterrey Mexico with stops at Corsicana Galveston Corpus Christi and San Antonio plus Laredo and others. Rumors of a Monterey marriage circulated as Miss Margaret Perry joined in the Spartann aircraft.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Corsicana
Old Mexico
Monterrey
Houston
Corpus Christi
Mexico
Galveston
Harlingen
Brownsville
McAllen
Monterey
Laredo
San Antonio
Austin
Waco
Margaret Perry
California
Ohio
Spartann
Three Killed When Airplane Falls in Double Tragedy
In Tulare California near here last Thursday a stunt went wrong as an airplane plunged 2000 feet killing two brothers Roy and Floyd McNiel and pilot Sylvester Clerberg all from Tri n oia. Authorities reported the crash instantly killed all three aboard.
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Tulare
Here
Roy
Floyd McNiel
Sylvester Clerberg
Trinoia
Magistrates back away from thrashing six boys
In Radcliffe England six boys who stole apples were to be thrashed by their parents in court. Some parents agreed others objected and the magistrates ruled they lacked power to impose such punishment though they would likely punish their own sons similarly.
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Radcliffe
England
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