Pitts Batting Averages Lead In Anaconda League
In the Anaconda Standard’s August 26, 1923 issue, Cole-Pitts with Earl Tucker pace Mines league play, hitting .400 weekly and boosting Connaghan to .471 average. Anodes, Clarks, and Angdes challenge with strong pitching and late-week slumps affect standings as Labor Day approaches.
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Grizzly squad braces for season with key openings
MISSOULA Aug 25 Beat the Bobcats will be the rallying cry as the Grizzly football team begins practice Sept 12 ahead of their Nov 17 meeting with Montana State in Bozeman. Key losses include captain Ray Murphy and others. new faces like George Axtell and Warren Maudlin join a group needing backfield strength. Schedule opens Oct 6 vs Mount St Charles, includes Idaho at Moscow Oct 13 and a first trip to Butte Oct 20 to face Mines.
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World Series to Start Around Oct 9 or 10
Associated Press reports this year’s world series between the National and American league champions is planned to begin Oct 9 or 10, with the major league season ending Oct 7. If New York clubs hold top positions, the series would open Oct 9. otherwise Oct 10 if a gap widens between the champions.
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Bruins Meet Bobcats In Climax at Bozeman
The season reaches its peak on November 17 as the Bruins face the Bobcats at Bozeman in a conference game. The final match of the year is December 1 when Montana travels to Portland to play Pacific University, another conference contest.
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Five New Buildings Open at State College Bozeman
Montana State college now uses all five new buildings including the engineering building engineering shops gymnasium biology building and heating plant. The biology building was last occupied in August while the old biology building will host Extension Service quarters and the old drill hall is being remodeled as a stock judging pavilion. Engineering courses now enroll more students than agriculture with degrees conferred across engineering agriculture household and industrial arts and applied science.
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Big registration at Montana State College
Bozeman Montana Aug 25 Before mid August 133 Montana high school graduates registered for the freshman class at Montana State college for the autumn quarter starting Sept 25 26 The advance registration suggests the heaviest freshman enrollment ever seen at the institution Although three new buildings add space for classrooms and labs this fall reduced appropriations will complicate handling the larger registration
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Full Blooded Alaska Natives Dying Out Alarm Report
Anchorage report cites Charles Coach warning that within decades full blooded natives along Alaska's southwestern coast will be scarce as population decline continues and cultural lines fade.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Charles Coach
Highest Honor for Babe Ruth in American League Award Debate
The column weighs Ruth as the likely Most Valuable Player for the American League, noting his improved fielding and hitting this season. It cites fans and writers supporting Ruth while acknowledging past criticisms and the trophy’s planned permanent display on a Washington shaft.
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Commentary on Native Marriage Proposals in Cook Inlet Region
Mr. Coach explains that many native women in the lower Cook Inlet country refuse to marry full blooded men. He notes white men are viewed as better providers with greater social advancement. Only educated natives with steady work stand a chance to win a young squaw.
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Giants Yankees set for third straight World Series
A baseball expert says barring incidents the Giants and Yankees will meet in October for the third straight World Series, as interest fades across many majors with both pennants already decided. The Yankees lead by about 12 games, while the Giants hold a seven and a half game edge in the National League. The season’s chatter centers on decline in attendance and dwindling enthusiasm for other teams as the two powerhouses prepare for another meeting and a possible repeat of 1921 and 1922 triumphs.
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Boxing in Major League Arenas to End Says Baseball Leaders
New efforts to divorce boxing from baseball aim to bar boxing bouts in major league arenas next winter. Ban Johnson and John Heydler lead the push, arguing boxing in ballparks draws summer publicity away from baseball. National and American league councils, plus a joint meeting overseen by Judge Landis, are to hear the issue as New York boxing scenes threaten metropolitan coverage.
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Sponges hailed from eastern Mediterranean and Americas trade routes
Sponges of commerce originate in the eastern Mediterranean, with supply also drawn from the West Indies and the coasts of Florida and Central America, highlighting a broad geographic sourcing network.
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Ty Cobb’s Declining Form Alters Tigers Lineup
Aug 25 New York Ty Cobb’s legs falter robbing Detroit of fielding speed. Scribes blame slow play for defeats and late lineup moves. Fans may boo Cobb when he plays and Detroit visits. This may be his last season as a regular player.
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American Girl Helen Wills Aims To Surpass Lenglen
New York August 25 American girl Helen Wills defeats Kathleen McKane showing coaching from Little Bill Johnston and finishing strokes that surpass past European invaders. English tennis critic A Wallis Meyers says Wills may be greater than Suzanne Lenglen as forest Hills crowds witness decisive victory and rising American womanhood.
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Bill” Johnston
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