Cubs Remain Formidable Despite World Series Lashes
New York reports debate whether the Chicago Cubs will stay dangerous after their 1909 World Series loss. FE Lanigan notes that recent beatings by the White Sox and Bears’ setbacks may spur Cubs to renewed effort in 1911. Chance plans minor changes, Zimmerman to third, Sheckard valued, Kling reconciled with Murphy, and the team forecasts a strong season.
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Chicago Cubs
FE. J. Lanigan
Peereas
Atltcs
Cubs
Frank Chance
White Sox
National Commission
Chicago
Mordecai Brown
Diphtheria Reulbach
Jack the Giant Killer Priester
Jeff
Comiskeyites
Reusbach
Shad” Roche
White Stockings
Brown
Altrock
Marvel
Sox
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Fd Walsh
Meneare Murphy
Chance
Fefute
F Leroys
Devin
Sas
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Perrone
Giants
Pittsburg
Pirates
Tiheorgs
Johnny Kling
Hig Billiard Hall
Kansas City
Jimmy Archer
Hassock
Cub
Helnie Zimmerman
Harry Steinfeldt
James Tilden Sheckard
Jim
Sheckard
Powell County High Girls Win First Deer Lodge Basketball Game
In Deer Lodge on December 10 Powell county high school girls defeated College of Montana 17 to 6 in the city’s first girls basketball game. Captain Mildred Toomey and Catherine Whitworth starred for the high school with Alphonse Dores as standout for the college.
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Deer Lodge
Powell County High School
College of Montana
Mildred Toomey
Catherine Whitworth
Whitworth and
Stetson
Toomey
Bedford
Albee
Applegate
Beasely
Doves
Smith
Zorn
Holmson
First race at one mile selling incentive
Races list results with jockeys and weights for six events. horses shown with numeric weights and entries. Notable names include Busy Man Davie Andrew Lovely Mary Wap Port Arlington Acade mist Banana Ferris Schreiber entry and Jim Gaffney Captain Burnett Elgin Nebulosis God Father and Sorrowful. Weather shows rain and good track.
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J. ©. Clem
Busy Man
Harry Rogers
Davie Andrew
Lovely Mary
Deneen
Wap
Pay Streak
Max Dice
Pickanning
Frank Ferrie
Winning Widow
Amagaroga
Port Arlington
Academist
Banana
Santalene
Veligind
MceMenus
Ferris
Schreiber
Chambers to Join Montana Agricultural College Football Team
Ned Chambers will join the Montana Agricultural college football team next season. He has played on the team for the past two years. A football manager election approved by President J. M. Hamilton and J. H. McIntosh, gifting Coaches Schermerhorn and McIntosh with watch fobs.
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Standard
Bozeman
Ned Chambers
Montana Agricultural College
Chambers
J. M. Hamilton
J. H. McIntos
Schermerhorn
McIntosh
Baseball convention week in New York set for December
New York reports base ball week with club owners from three leagues meeting in the city. Major and minor circuit heads will discuss rule changes elect officers and chart plans for the coming season. The National and Eastern leagues will elect presidents while the Americans prepare for its session.
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New York
Ban Johnson Sees 19 Years Left in 20 Year Term
Ban Johnson has nineteen years remaining of a twenty year term at twenty six thousand dollars per year. Thus far opposition to Tom Lynch, president of the National, has been minimal. The National will convene Tuesday and the American Wednesday.
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Can “Ban” Johnson
Tom Lynch
National
Bozeman Plans Statewide High School Basketball Tournament
Bozeman Montana State College faculty organize a postseason basketball tournament inviting every high school with a team in the state. The event, to be held in March in the college drill hall, will feature preliminaries, semifinals, and a final with the college quintet exhibition. The college covers seven players and a coach per high school, with wrestling and boxing showcases plus a reception and dance after.
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Bozeman
Montana Agricultural College
Montana
College Five
Outsider in front at Terrazas Park
In Juarez on December 11 Keogh rode Polls to an easy win in the La Libertad handicap a mile and an eighth at Terrazas Park. Polls moved from third to run down leader Harrigan in the final furlong to win by a length.
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Keogh
la Libertad
Terrazas Park
Harrigan
Agility
Soon
del Cruzador
Mark Kennedy
Creston
Angelus
Frank Mullen
the Pippin
Meadow
Nettie Marchmont
Love Note
Marjorie A
Kopek
Ford May Be Made Goat For Fletcher Business
New York December 11 reports from Chicago state the collapse of D A Fletchers third league movement caused little regret in baseball circles. Fletcher had an understanding with organized baseball leaders and focus shifts to star players with optional contracts. Russell Ford of the Highlanders reportedly could have signed 4800 for 1911 but chose the 5000 Fletcher option. Interest grows in Ford's final terms with the American League club.
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New York
Chicago
D. A. Fletcher
Fletcher
Russel Ford
Highlanders
Ford
Frank Tarrell
Slabman
Ranking of Golfers by H L Fitzpatrick 1901 list
W C Fownes Jr of Pittsburg leads the first of Fitzpatrick’s annual lists listing the top 16 golfers. Travis, Evans Jr and Herreshoff follow as other top finishers with Phelps Hunton Fean Sherman among the notable names in the ranking.
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New York
W. C. Fownes Jr
Pittsburg
H. L. Fitzpatrick
Fownes
W. J. Travis
W. R. Tuckerman
Travis
Evans
Herreshoff
Travers
Charles Evans Jr
Fred Herreshoff
Mason Phelps
Robert E. Hunton
H. Chandler Fean
T. M. Sherman
Foéteenth
Hoppe Ready to Meet Sutton for 18.1 Billiards Title
New York December 11 Hoppe declares willingness to defend his world billiards title at 18.1 or 18.2 balk line format at any time He notes Sutton of Chicago can challenge and that once notice and forfeit are posted a match will be arranged confirming his readiness to defend the claim now.
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New York
Hoppe
George Sutton
Chicago
Sutton
Coulon Signs for Bantam Title Bout Against Conley
Johnny Coulon, bantamweight world claimant, signed articles for a two round title bout with Frankie Conley at the West Side Athletic Club in New Orleans. Conley expected to sign in Chicago tomorrow. Both fighters to weigh in three and a half hours before the fight.
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New Orleans
Johnny Coulon
Frankie Conley
West Side Athletic Club
Jan
Conley
Chicago
Illini and Gophers Dominate Conference Football Ranking
Chicago dispatch ranks Minnesota and Illinois joint top in the conference on merits beyond scores. Wisconsin and Chicago trail, with Indiana Northwestern Iowa and Purdue following, praising Coach Williams Hall Lindgren Hammett Hawley and Barry for strong seasons and defenses.
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Sheldon
Indiana
Chicago
Purdue
Wisconsin
Taylor Approves Boston Syndicate to Run Club
New York dispatch reports Boston National League club likely to be bought by an all Boston group spending to build a winning team. The Hub syndicate, favored by John I. Taylor, plans a new ballpark sharing with the Red Sox. Taylor’s era has yielded strong profits for the American club, while past owners faced losses and shifting control amid bids involving Dreyfuss associates and city leaders.
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Boston
John I. Taylor
Taylor
Boston Club
Dovey
Boston Nationals
Red Sox
Fletcher
Messrs. Soden
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Soden
Billings
Conant
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St. Louis Street Railroad
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Geor Dovey
Barney Dreyfuss
Doveys
Harris
Dreyfuss
Tener
Pennsylvania
Iirector of Public Safety
John Morin
Pittsburg
William Locke
Locke
Floods in Italy Cause Deaths and Severe Damage
Rome reports storms on the Italian Riviera devastate miles of cultivated flowers. San Remo floods force residents to flee by rope ladders as water surrounds homes. Several people drown and rail traffic from Bordighera to the French frontier halts due to washouts. Northern rivers swell with the Tiber rising quickly and Pentenuovo hall undermined.
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Italian Riviera
San Remo
Bordighera
Tiber
Pentenuovo
Gardner suicide noted in Denver report
Denver December 11. Charles W. Gardner a prominent figure died by self infliction with throat and wrist wounds and four gunshot wounds over the heart. The tragic scene outlines a death by his own action. Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death.
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Denver
Charles W. Gardner
Denver Attorney Found Dead on City Outskirts
A 35 year old attorney was found dead on the outskirts of Denver this morning. Indications point to death by his own action. His wife said Gardner had suffered severe insomnia and been in a bad mental condition in recent months.
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Denver
Gardner
Spain Hit by Severe Cyclone Kills Many, Floods Regions
Madrid reports a second deadly cyclone flooding lowlands from Seville to Alcala. Seville submerged with risk of full inundation, rail lines washed away, two trains derailed at Palencia, ships wrecked along the coast, and telegraph lines largely down. Several villages in crisis and deaths feared.
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Spain
Seville
Alcala
Vilages
Palencia
Valladolid
Lost Boise banker Bert Corbin Found Dead in Idaho Mountains
The body of Bert E. Corbin, 41, vice president of Union Savings Building and Trust Co., was found 12 miles from Bilge Springs, Idaho, four weeks after he vanished on November 19 near Reas Pass while hunting. Death likely from exposure. horse found nearby. Survived by his wife.
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Idaho
Bert E. Corbin
Union Savings Building and Trust Company
Bilge Springs
Corbin
Harry Lamberton
Reas Pass
Lamberton
Yellowstone Park
Secretary of the Interior
Southern Judge White Lone Southern Voice on Supreme Bench
Washington notes Justice Edward Douglas White stood as the lone southern representative on the Supreme Court bench for years. Born in Louisiana in 1845, he served in the Civil War, practiced law, and became a sugar planter before rising to state senate and finally the U S Supreme Court under President Cleveland.
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Edward Douglas White
White
la Fourche
Mount St. Marys
Emmetsburg
Jesuit College
New Orleans
Georgetown College
Washington, D. C
Justice White
Louisiana
Supreme Court of
State
Eustice
Senate
Supreme Bench
Cleveland
New York
Senator White
Harmony of No 465 fifth anniversary gala at Carpenters' Union hall
About 200 members of the Fraternal Brotherhood observed Harmony lodge No 465's fifth anniversary with speeches, music, recitations, and a banquet. President William Barclay welcomed members and traced the order from its 1905 founding in Los Angeles to a 1940s Montana presence, noting growth from 2 to 446 members and envisioning future expansion. Performers included David Edwards, Frank Hubbard, Major Young, Joseph Corby, Grace I Bourret, Rose Selley, and James Carse with Highland dancing, followed by tunes by an orchestra and a humorous monologue.
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Carpenters’ Union Hall
William Barclay
Organization of Harmony of No
Harmony Lodge
Los Angeles
Cal
Pacific
Atlantic
Canada
Mexico
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Frank Hubbard
St. Peter At the Gata
Major Young
Joseph Corby
Mrs. Crowley
Grace I. Bourret
Chopin
Rose Selley
James Carse
E. G. Dell
Joseph Duffy
Gallatin Voters to State Choice for Senator
Bozeman December 11 The Republican central committee voted to implement last fall’s plan to learn county voters preference for United States senator. All party legislative candidates are pledged to back the nominee by majority vote. Only Nelson Story Jr won in the legislature race, but the plan will proceed with mailed voting cards to every Republican voter asking for their choice.
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Standard
Bozeman
Republican Central Committee
United States
Nelson Story Jr
Strike ballots counted in locomotive engineers referendum
Chicago December 11 unofficial tally shows 97.52 percent of voters on 61 western roads favor a strike if wage demands are not met. Official result to be announced tomorrow.
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Badgers
Midwayites
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Wolverines
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Colored preacher and the Red Sea crossing joke
A humorous passage from the Ladies' Home Journal portrays a colored preacher as a higher critic who denies miracles. A dialogue with Caleb riffs on the Hebrews crossing the Red Sea on solid ice that melts with warmth, mocking biblical geography and the era’s ignorance.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Caleb
Red Sea
Donnelly Wins Tight Mile Amateur Ice Race
In front of about 1000 spectators at the Holland rink Jimmy Donnelly edged Tom McGivern by two yards to win the mile amateur ice race. The pair battled six laps with lead changes and close finishes each stretch. McGivern’s first defeat in two years followed a season dominated by others.
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Jimmy Donnelly
Tom McGivern
Donnelly
Tig
McGivern
Syracuse Candidate Plans English Title Bout During Derby Week
Syracuse heavyweight contender O Kelle y will meet English champion Bombardier Wells for the England title before the National Sporting Club in London during Derby week if negotiations between American matchmakers are finalized.
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Syracuse
Con O’kelley
Bombardier Wells
England
National Sporting Club of London
Almendares Narrowly Beat Philadelphia Americans in Cuba
In Havana on December 11 the Almendares nine edged the Philadelphia Americans 2 to 1 in a tight game. Major figures and exact lineups not listed, but the Cuban club secured the win on home soil.
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Havana
Almendares
Philadelphia Americans
Making is His Own, From the Galata Journal
The Galata Journal quotes Senator Hale of Maine on the Lord's chastening of the Republican party after the last election. The piece reflects on the Lord's deep attachment to the Democratic party over the past forty years.
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Galata Journal
Hale
Maine
Plains Plainsman predicts Mexican revolt ironclad
The Plainsman asserts it had long foreseen a Mexican revolt against Diaz and claims the leader could not evade resistance for long. The piece emphasizes inevitability and the journalistic stance of prior prediction.
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Diaz
Bitter Root Apples Spread Into Collier's Feature
From the Red Lodge Republican, the Bitter Root apples have succeeded in entering Collier's. The note suggests they are pure food, at least in the opinion of the source.
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Red Lodge Republican
Collier's
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