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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1925
Page
8
James Braden profiles Red Grange in a 1925 feature recounting his breakout on the high school gridiron. The piece covers his pivotal early run and development across football, basketball, and track, noting a dramatic road to North honors and the impact on his peers and team.
Box scores from the Oakland California winter league show many former Mines leaguers in action. The circuit began October 18 with six clubs and includes players like Pete Thompson Bill Rodda Steve Check Oscar Bowers and Bill Burke among others from Clarks of 1926 A C M and Butte champions.
Red Grange says he made a good promise to smash the Penn defense. Tad Jones, Yale coach, praised Saturday's victory over Army and predicted a two week layoff until Princeton. Kline was slightly injured. baseball talk centers on trades with Peckinpaugh and Moore, while Chicago boxing promo ponders a future rival city.
The Behm brothers from Cleveland, John and Note ten, star for Town State with John as captain and quarterback and Note ten at left half. Sam Williamson, formerly at Hast Tech, coaches the Town State eleven with strong roots in Cleveland. Spike Nave, another Cleveland product, also features on the roster, as the team builds on sturdy regional talent.
Norman E Brown profiles Rabbit Maranville in 1925 context, noting his fall as Cubs shortstop and failed managerial trial under Walter. The piece details Maranville’s departure from the team, replacement by George Gibson, and Joe McCarthy’s upcoming chance to manage, with Maranville likely to seek a new club next season.
A Chicago Tribune feature profiles Captain Henderson of the Maroon, praising his size and calm leadership. From Delafield to St John’s Military Academy, his unlikely rise as a football star is noted along with his injury-free varsity years and temperament under pressure.
Al Webster a Billings middie signs to box Norman Genet of Akron Ohio on November 12 at Great Falls. The bout headlines an American Legion card. Genet a veteran with over 100 bouts. The report notes radio efforts to locate L Coleman of Bul supposed California to notify him of his father Dr C W Coleman 75.
In Mexico City on November 2 William M. Johnston captured the men's singles championship by defeating Howard Kinsey 6 3 6 0 6 4 in the national tennis championships final. The Centerville Grey Rocks tied the Centerville Midgets 8 6 in a hard fought game.
Til Nov 2 in Champaign a jubilant crowd greets Red Grange as the Illinois star rides a two mile victory lap from Philadelphia where his team crushed the University of Pennsylvania 24 to 2 on a muddy field. A special train with 450 rooters and the university band met by 10 000 locals carries the hero through town.
Tank Monahan signs for a Miles City bout with an opponent to be picked later. The match should occur in about 10 days, with Frankie in training and Gomaixe stirring talk of a fight betw een the two. Butte fans await the matchup likely to settle who is the top middleweight in Montana.
Northern district enters the Montana interscholastic football race with Great Falls and Hobson as top contenders in the north. Officials foresee Hobson facing Wingert and Glasgow clashing with Havre while Great Falls meets Hobson for the title if results hold. The season has produced strong northern play with Great Falls and Hobson viewed as likely semi final threats.
Providence reports a new Boston University game to be played next Saturday using a 40 plays per period format. The director of athletics says the stop-watch will be discarded and the game run by plays, with the team scoring first believed to control time through legitimate delays, leaving opponents with little chance to score.
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