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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1919
Page
18
Butte high school coach Danahey has only two games on the slate this season. The opener is January 3 at Anaconda High, a fast matchup against a strong Anaconda lineup. A week later Central High visits Butte High Gym for what is billed as the toughest game of the year.
Butte will host a demanding winter basketball slate as the Montana School of Mines announces home games seven times. Opposition includes Montana State College, University of Montana, Gonzaga, and Mount St Charles, with Wesleyan and others possible. The Mines travel for key clashes at Missoula Helena Bozeman and Butte games feature veterans McAuliffe Mueller Hale and guard competition for spots as freshmen develop.
Harvard and Oregon crews intensify prep in Pasadena with double sessions. Harvard trainer Pooch Donovan and coach Robert Fisher foresee a strong lineup including Casey and Murray as key starters for the January 1 game.
Chicago reports indicate major league teams must offer roughly 90 percent of regulars new contracts for 1920. Anticipation grows for higher salaries amid Babe Ruth demand. Few Chicago players signed yet as veterans Alexander Killefer Robertson and Collins Cicotte Schalk see contract statuses.
Vincent Richards of Yonkers defended his junior national indoor tennis title at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York. He defeated Frank T. Anderson of Brooklyn in a five set final by scores of 9 11, 6 3, 5 7, 6 2, 6 3 to take the junior singles crown.
Old time Butte stars return to action at the Lake Avoca rink this afternoon. Contests are planned every Sunday afternoon until teams from other parts of the state can join in. Hockey appears to be revived in Butte.
Building contractors in Spokane have called a meeting for Tuesday night to discuss the union carpenters demand for a $1 a day wage increase effective January 1. The current carpenter wage is $87 a day. Union lathers, brickmasons and plasterers have also asked for a $1 daily increase starting January 1.
Fight promoter George McDonald, a British manager of boxers, arrived on the steamship Baltic and expressed interest in advancing a Dempsey and Carpentier bout. Copyright, Underwood and Underwood, New York.
Scandinavian observers note strong U S prospects for Antwerp Olympics next August. Copenhagen athletic authority Emil Anderson tells American delegates that the United States should lead the field, with confidence in American preparations and strength.
Members of Scott high school football team of Toledo Iowa arrive in Seattle after Christmas to face Everett high school in Everett Washington. Toledo plans practice on Seattle grounds Tuesday and Wednesday before the game. Everett claims the state title while Toledo is seen as a champion of the East and the winner would claim the national preparatory school title.
Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 27. Ad Q. Thacher, matchmaker for the Toledo boxing commission, wires Dempsey manager Jack Kearns that Toledo will match any offer from France London or the United States for the Dempsey Carpentier championship bout. Thacher eyes another July 4 style show that previously raised funds for charity and also hopes to arrange a Wilde Mason title bout.
High scores and strong conditioning mark the Commercial League as teams eye the state tournament in Missoula. Walker's leads the standings with Telephone chasing, while a marathon at Marquette alleys offers a $50 top prize for the highest average over 10 games among 16 entrants.
Paris reports Georges Carpentier, heavyweight champion, declares walking the best form of exercise for fitness. He emphasizes deportment, poise, and balance as roots of physical culture and prefers nonviolent, natural movement over strenuous routines.
The Robins' Tvan Olson starred as a top fielding shortstop with a .947 mark over 140 games. He ranked fourth behind Terry of the Pirates, Pearce and Bancroft of the Phillies, with Terry and Bancroft playing under 100 games. Olson handled 844 chances of 868 possible.
Charles H. Ebbets, president and owner of the Brooklyn National club, exults as seven regular players sign contracts. Marquard, Jimmy Johnston, Ivy Olson, Clarence Mitchell, Chuck Ward, Ernie Krueger and Roy Schmandt are inked, with Poe Hart returning as trainer. Doe aims to return to Flatbush next season.
At the Y M C A yesterday afternoon representatives from First Presbyterian Trinity Methodist Mountain View Methodist First Baptist Lowell Avenue Methodist St Johns Episcopal St Pauls Episcopal Grace Methodist and Unity Methodist organized a Sunday School Athletic League to boost interest and attendance among men and boys. All games occur at the Y on Saturday nights with a schedule to be drawn and opening dates set next Saturday at 7 45 PM.
A calf missing for three weeks from Monroe was found in a dry well near Charlotte. It survived by eating honeysuckle vines during the confinement.
English flyweight champion Jimmie Wilde and Babe Asher bantam king of the A I L F will meet in an eight round no decision bout in St Louis on January 8. Wilde plans to train in Milwaukee.
Fred Clarke, famed Pirates manager, travels from the West to New York for NL meetings and is understood to have offered to buy the Pirates. He may purchase the Pirates or another NL club, a move some believe could lift the St Louis Cardinals.
A mathematics student claims an arrow shot by Inigo Simon at Le Touquet France reached 459 yards 8 inches, the farthest propelled by a man. He notes James Braid’s 395 yard golf drive is the longest legitimate tee shot though wind and ground aid can push golf balls farther. Distance beats baseball, hammer, discus, and shot records.
Col J C Miller Oklahoma ranchman and oil magnate has offered 300000 for the Dempsey Carpentier bout to be held in the United States and may raise the bid to secure the international world championship clash.
A compact roster of businesses in Butte Montana including Meinhart Sign Painting at 12 West Galena Street with phone 2371 Montana Typewriter Co builders of typewriters and used machines at 46 Broadway Suite and East Ed Murphy General Contractor carpenter jobber 621 West Diamond Fur relining coats remodeling by 214 West Ph 39 Lb Hughes Lumber Co for lumber and tile work welding services at 116 South Wyoming. Our motto Quick Service and Good Workmanship.
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