Southpaws and left handers reshape baseball era
A collage of baseball notes, citing left handed pitchers’ dominance in 1916 era counts, names stars like Schupp Ruth Smee Marquard Itixey Coveteskie and Ray Caldwell. It also covers Hartzell signing with To ledo and a proposed New Orleans boxing match with Les Darcy for February, with a $15,000 purse.
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St Louis
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Rotedo
Ohio
Roger Isresnahan
Roy Hartell
New York Americans
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Denver
New York
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New Orleans
Mike Gibbons
St. Paul
Les Darcy
Willard Carpentier bout editorials flare up
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Carpentier
Minneapolis Journal
Berlin School Children Subscribe 1.9 Million Marks to War Loan
Berlin reports that school children subscribed 1,900,000 marks to the fifth German war loan as latest figures released. A private in the quartermaster corps, Albert A. Streigel, was shot and killed by a sentry after allegedly attempting to escape from a stockade for disorderly conduct. A hangar at the aviation field was damaged by a windstorm, injuring no one. Franz Bopp case proceedings resumed in San Francisco, with trial postponed to tomorrow.
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