Baseball's Hornsby in Auction Amid Major League Meeting
Chicago dispatch reports the annual major league meeting opening with players like Rogers Hornsby and Eddie Collins up for bids as teams discuss trades. Rumors float around Branch Rickey and McGraw while other league gatherings and arbitration hearings unfold.
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Davis J. Walsh
Chicago
Rogers Hornsby
St. Louis Cardinals
Eddie Collins
Chicago White Sox
Urban Shocker
St. Louis Browns
Walter Maranville
Pittsburgh Pirates
Charley Hollacher
Chicago Cubs
Cubs
Hornsby
Rickey’s
Ickey
Hollacher
Shocker
Browns
St. Louis
New York Yankees
Congress
Rickey
Pirates
Maranville
White Sox
Collins
Horsby 18
McGraw
Cardinal Star
Jim Tierney
Judge McQuade
Dick Kinsella
Giant
Hostacher
I League
Southern Association
National Board of Arbitration
Williams
McCarthy
Pacific Coast League
Toledo
Roger Bresnahan
6Th Parties
Otto Miller
St. Paul Club
American Association
Umpires Clash Over pay After World Series
New York December report says Major League umpires backed Landis before the World Series but balked when pay demands rose with a million-dollar gate. The judge reportedly rejected the raise and warned replacements could step in if umpires failed to report, souring relations with the umpires.
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New York
Judge Landis
Babe Ruth comeback on simple life yields renewed form
The piece reviews Babe Ruth’s winter farm life in Sudbury Massachusetts after a disappointing 1922 season. It cites Ruth’s return to peak condition and promises a stronger 1923 performance, noting his lighter weight faster throwing and confidence to adjust with a calm routine away from Broadway.
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Babe Ruth
Bill Ritchie
New York Yankees
Sudbury
Mass
New York
Broadway
The
Grunewald Hotel
New Orleans
Ruth
Miller Huggins
Babe
Ann Townsend to Lead Merion Girls Field Hockey Team to England
Miss Ann Townsend of Merion Pennsylvania will captain a team of girls field hockey players sailing for England. Townsend is a star and the American squad is a strong pick, confident of winning international honors in the sport gaining popularity at girls schools and colleges.
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Ann Townsend
Merion
England
Miss Townsend
Carpentier Seeks Tunney Greb Winner in Possible Match
Paris manager Paul Des Camps cables Tex Rickard seeking a light heavyweight title bout pairing Georges Carpentier with the Tunney Greb winner from New York tonight.
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Paris
Paul Descamps
Georges Carpentier
Tex Rickyard
New York
Carpentier
Illini coach Zuppke shuns good losers in defeat
In a bold stance, University of Illinois coach Bob Zuppke rejects the notion of good losers. He champions fighters who never quit, admire fair play, and view defeat as a spur to future victory rather than a reason to smile. He demands robust, clean competition and vows Illinois will show true sportsmanship in defeat.
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Bob Zuppke
University of Illinois
Zippke
Illinois
Yale Freshmen Football Looms For Princeton Harvard
Yale freshmen show strength by beating Harvard and Princeton and 59 to . West Virginia freshmen post dominant scores. The season hints at future elite squads, with Yale and West Virginia leading the way and Penn State, Pittsburg, and Bellefonte Academy results cited as context.
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Yale
University of West Virginia
Harvard
Princeton
Bulldog
Crimson
West Virginia
Mountaineers
Penn State
Pittsburg
Bellefonte Academy
Pennsylvania
After the Rates. Greenville Rats Face Tough Week
In Greenville the Pied Piper arrives with a government recommended chemical, barium carbonate, to combat rats. The Dayton source notes this method as a new measure.
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Greenville
Hamelin
Dayton
Bulldogs Rally To Win Final Columbus Clash
In Columbus Caanton Bulldogs, National League champions, defeated the Columbus Tigers 10 to 6 in the season finale.
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Columbus
Caanton Bulldogs
Columbus Tigers
Celtics Lose Haggerty Key Guard For Season
The New York Celtics will play this season without Horse Haggerty, a giant guard famed for his enormous hands and ability to palm the basketball.
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Celtics
Haggerty
New York Celtics
Hagegerty
Robert Auble Arrested for Loitering at Rialto Burlesque
Robert Auble of Elyria Ohio was brought before the police court after loitering near the Rialto Theatre dressing rooms during a burlesque show. He paid a $19 fine to settle the case.
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Robert
Elyria
Robert Auble
Bar of Justice
Riallo
Spring clock release bruised James Cohagen’s hand
In Columbus Ohio a spring in an eight day clock released by accident left James Cohagen with a bruised and cut finger on his right hand.
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Columbus
James Cohagen
Sarazen and Havers to meet in world championship match
Gene Sarazen and Arthur G. Havers will contest a 72 hole international match in California in January the first British pro to face an American pro in such a bout. Havers won the British Open at Troon and the Greg Fagles match while Sarazen seeks his second straight American Open title and career wins. The event may run January 18 and 26 with play in San Francisco and Los Angeles and possibly Santa Barbara.
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Joe Kirkwood
New York
Gene Sarazen
Arthur G. Havers
California
Sarazen
America
Professional Golfers’ Association
Skokie
Havers
Troon
Greg Fagles
Miami
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Cleveland Golf Course to Add Nine Holes by Spring
Cleveland will expand Highland Park links from eighteen to twenty seven holes. Last season more than 65 000 golfers played the course as city plans include completion of nine new holes by spring to boost capacity and appeal.
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Cleveland
Highland Park
The Charm and Paradox of Statistics in Daily Life
A humorous jumble questions the value and reliability of statistics. The piece anecdotes famous lines and quips about stats proving or disguising truth, noting figures often lie or mislead. It lampoons overreliance on numbers and the push to prove anything with data.
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Wolgast
Battiers
Paul Kohler
Kohler
Matt Hinkel
Hinkel
London
Eugene Corri
United States
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Old Dee Cook
North Pole
Jess Willard
Joseph Beckett
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