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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1914
Page
2
New York reports discuss strict conditioning versus laxity, urging discipline and sacrifice while warning against cutting corners. It cites junior basketball and relay candidates, warns against extreme dieting, weight cutting, sweets, pastries, smoking, and stimulants. The piece cites a table in Chutes as guidance.
Leo Bens began training again with his damaged right hand as he prepares for a planned fight with Joe Chip, while Chip, a Pennsylvania coal miner, tries to rally support and bets on delivering a hard knockout as both men seek peak conditioning for a 12 round bout.
A fragmented sports snippet hints at a boxing card in Butte with promoter Thompson and fighters such as Danny and Brown. The garbled text mentions a main event, ring action, and crowd expectations, with references to a welterweight bout and a possible windup.
Brigham Young college five defeated Butte-based rivals with swift offense and strong passing, led by Davis on both ends. Wright and Hills scored key early baskets as Utahans pressed the tempo and neutralized the Butte forwards. Harvey departed briefly after a knock, Robnett subbed in. Tonight the Utah collegians face the Ageies at Bozeman and tomorrow meet the Tripe B’s at Billings.
New York boxing report notes Jim Coffey, the Dublin giant, outpoints Gunboat Smith over ten rounds at Madison Square Garden in a slow, awkward contest with few clean punches. Coffey weighed 198 pounds to Smith's 189.
A recorded death due to freezing was reported in St Louis as 87 year old George Stillwell was found frozen near his boarding house. Additional garbled lines reference an unrelated naval incident in Hagerstown and a separate casualty but are illegible.
Wels left Hendry in the class B trophy game for the curling rink while Elton faced light opposition in the class A match. Other games were practice affairs as results show McKenzie Campbell Alexander Ticker King Hentry St Germain Dederick W Mackay McCiellana Christensen Rogers Elton Skip 11 Lewis Craig Bernard McKibben Ober Watkins Falconer Desjardins Lind Morden M Martin Skip 1 MacDonald Spengler Norvell Cole K McKenzie Kida Munn ML McKenzie Skip 12 Skip 5 Frazer Kell Falconer Sundberg Oner Stevens Skip Skip 9 Daniels Thompson Sul McKibben Powdrill T D Kelly Corcoran Watkin Skip Skip Tucson Ariz Dec 15 Test of the Arizona anti alien labor law amendment began in a US district court. The law requires 80 percent of employees to be American citizens in firms with more than five workers. Mike Riach an Austrian cook seeks to block employer William Truax from firing him. Rach argues the law is unconstitutional conflicting with the fourteenth amendment and federal statutes ensuring equal rights of employment.
A Belfast Ireland corporation promotes relief rolls for shipyard workers and others left idle by the war.
Correspondent notes a standstill in offensive moves to the north, with frost bites and frozen limbs heavy early in winter. Austrian health improves, cholera nearly extinct, Berlin Christmas modest. trees adorn squares, charities fund gifts. American Association of Commerce and Trade aids Berlin poor, residents donate to soldiers abroad. Princess Adelbert sends substantial gifts to sailors aboard the Kaiser ship.
The piece notes mangosteen and other varieties introduced locally, cites Bayard Taylor on taste, and highlights hybridization efforts by Luther Burbank. It mentions wartime lobster exports from Canada, Prince Edward Island’s small share, and total province exports. Also reports Stoner Seitz and Jonas Haverstick receiving aid after fire and harvest delays.
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