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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1901
Page
15
Friday evening at the Audi torium St Patrick’s parochial school girls face Bozeman Business College. The season opener for an outside team in Butte, with long term plans for regular winter games and a rising interest in girls basketball.
Thornton team from Butte won the state event and organizers seek a new contest among top class bowlers. Plans hinge on player input and a popular vote to choose hosting city, with entry fee funding medals. The tournament aims for year end dates and will be decided by total pinfall.
A Chicago Inter Ocean writer notes the 12 year old stallion Directum 2:05 14 was bought for 12100 by the International Stock Food Co of Minneapolis. The piece argues the purchase signals Eastern capital’s shift after 1893 panics and predicts Directum’s progeny will influence breeding, with strong performance and near 2:15 2:20 times.
Dick Burge former British light weight champion is detained in dur ance vile across the Atlantic on charges of being an accessory to recent English bank frauds. The well known boxer retired and then returned briefly for famed fights including the 1898 world title bout with Kid Lavigne. He recently married Bella Lloyd and was on honeymoon when arrested.
On a polished floor six linoleum strips were laid with resin at each end. Women eagerly volunteered as fencers and quickly paired, ensuring at least six couples remained on the floor throughout the at home event.
Denver boxer Young Corbett says he and manager Johnnie Corbett will meet Terry McGovern and Sam Harris in Hartford with similar terms as the disastrous Thanksgiving bout. McGovern seeks to regain his title, while Corbett appears eager for another battle with higher stakes.
Ireland’s Dave Sullivan, a small featherweight champion, will fight Young Corbett for the world title. Sullivan sought the match after meeting Corbett, who defeated Terry McGovern. The Irish challenger impressed with his grit and punch, earning the first bout with the new champion.
John H. Bacon of Milwaukee forms the first American baseball club in the Orient at Hongkong on Oct 24. Twelve Americans and two six-man teams organize for weekly exhibitions after an elaborate consulate dinner. Bacon notes the club aims to showcase the American colors with an inaugural practice and forthcoming exhibition.
Ban Johnson declares the American League will not seek peace with the National League and vows ongoing war to ruin the NL. He cites financial strength and backing for key clubs while accusing Frank De Haas Robison of hypocrisy and planning. Johnson accuses Robison of pressuring Wallace and details contract talk and management plans for St Louis.
W. H. Whitney arranged with John Huggins to train in England next year. Huggins will handle the Derby winner Volodyoveki and the yearlings Whitney leased from Lady Meux. Nasturtium may also go to the Derby, but Whitney has not decided.
Canvass for captaincy for next year’s Northwestern football team narrows to Fleager and Davidson with Davidson favored. Davidson has played in all games this season except when injured, and his skill against trick plays is highly valued. Most of this year’s players will return except the Dietz brothers, Johnson, Smiley and Elio, leaving Hollister with a large substitute pool and a strong nucleus for a fast squad.
James McAleer, manager of the American league club to move to St Louis next season, announces the signing of John Anderson. He says Brooklyn and Boston sought Anderson and mentions adding Jesse Burkett Wallace Heidrick Harper Powell and Padden to the roster.
Tom Sharkey has developed into a boxing manager and now mentors Dave Sullivan from Cork. Sullivan says he will back the Cork youth against Young Corbett and will provide a side bet to any amount.
An unusual fencing event at Queen's Gate hall brought together male and female devotees of the art on equal terms. The Women’s Fencing club invited leading gents to cross swords with them in an at home that proved both enjoyable and amusing and successful in extending the sport’s social reach.
The article argues that milk-based diets harm cats from aristocratic households to street cats. It claims tuberculous and bronchial diseases arise from milk, with the author diagnosing such cases as milk related. It asserts parasites thrive on milk and questions which will prevail, cat or worm, in the long run.
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