Tulane hires coach Fuller after strong season
Tulane unveils a large coaching staff headed by Myron Fuller, former Yale coach, with several assistants including Arthur Hammond and Dr Ed Faust. The move aims to boost the Olive and reconcile expectations after a near top season, prompting talk of a coaching board and additional staff.
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Tulane
Orleang
Sythern
L. SU
Shaunessy
Myron HE. Fuller
Yale State
University of North Carolina
Germany Schulz
Fuller
Arthur Hammond
Lafayette
J. F E. Glynn
Portmouth
Ed Faust
Forrest McGraw
Bia Brennan
Lucien Dandry
Monk Shamons
Olive
Slaff
Dixon to headline as Murphy fights Dixon at Auditorium
Atlanta boxing card complete with Murphy facing Salier Dixon in the main bout after a late change. Sailor Kennedy fell to Eddie Hanlon, prompting Walk Miller to arrange the substitute. Dixon, from Birmingham, trains at Birmingham Athletic Club and expects a close contest against Murphy, who aims to showcase his improved form. The undercard features Barnett vs Sharkey in ten rounds and Hooper vs Moon in four rounds, with Stribbling vs Napple opening.
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Murphy
Atlanta
cSallor Kennady
Frankie
Eddie Hanlon
Brooklyn
Billi Bailey
Walk Miller
Salier Dixon
Birmingham
Bailey
Birmingham Athletic Club
Miller
Bailoy
Tommy Tompkins
Freddie Boor
Battling Barnett
Hare
Jack Sharkey
Kid Domb
Clemson Wins Fast Game From Presbys Cadet Quint
In a fast aid game G M A cadets beat Commercial High 58 to 7 on the G M A court. Froggy Melers starred with King close behind as Clem son College defeated Presbyterian 35 to 21 with Colbart scoring 24 of Clemson's 35. Scott of Presbyterian shined as a mini marvel.
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Clemson
Presbys
Quint Just
Lauren Clare
M. A
Welch
Burbage
Froggy Melers
King
Clamson College
5. C
Presbyterian College
Tigers
Colbart
Tigars
Scott
Savannah concerns ask incorporation
Savannah Ga February 8 three concerns applied to incorporate in Savannah The Mutual Oil and Gas Company the Savannah Florid Feed Company and the Southern Packing and Provision Company listed in the filing
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Savannah
Ing
Mutual Oil and Gas Company
Savannah Flerard Feed Company
Southern Packing and Pro-1 Vison
Atlas Club Defeats Kirkwood Quintet in Tight Tie
The Atlas club defeated the Kirkwood basketball team on Kirkwood court by a score of 27 to 3. Bucknell starred at forward with 27 points, as Atlas overwhelmed Kirkwood with strong defense and a fast start.
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Atlas
Kirkwood
Bucknell
Mardi Gras Handicap Ends New Orleans Racing Season
The 1921 racing season at the fair rounds track closes with an eight race card. Mythology wins the Mardi Gras handicap at six furlongs, Thurber rider, odds 10 to 1. Romany takes the Carnival handicap at a mile and a sixteenth, Thurber again, odds 20 to 1. Jockeys Connolly Morya and Garner suffer non serious injuries in a spill near the grandstand at the finish. RL George's workhouse in London, immortalized by Dickens, to be taken over as a museum and furniture warehouse, with historic fare preparation moved to Southwark.
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Secruary
Mythology
Thurber
Connolly
Morya
Garner
George
London
Dickens
Oliver Zwist
Hnaleum
Oliver
Southwark
Fight MARS U H S Wins Over Marist
University School beats Marist 29 to 21 on Marlet court in a fast tight Prep match. After a 21 21 tie with four minutes left, U H S pulled away with four field goals to secure the victory. A late free-for-all between players interrupted play before calm resumed and final lineups noted.
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Bill Means
University
Marist
Marlet
Bean
Cogeh Anderson
Laisa
Git Healy
Rubenstein
R. Fe
Farmer
Bradley
Yeager
Madden Minhinett
Anderson
Georgia
Fulton Wins By Knockout Over McCreary
Fulton knocked out McCreary in the second round in Boston on Tuesday night in a scheduled bout. McCreary was floored near the end of the round and signaled quitting but rose and was put down again for the count. In the ten round preliminary, Jack Sullivan defeated Jack Robinson of Cambridge, drawing a huge ovation from 8,000 fans who cheered Sullivan’s shimmy celebration.
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Boston
Fulton
Battling McCreary
McCreary
Jack
Sullivan
Kirkwood Five Defeats Boys High in Big Crowd Game
Kirkwood High boys routed Boys High School 69 to 4 before a large Kirwood crowd. The home team led 26 to 0 at halftime, then surged in the second half with fast passing and aggressive defense to overpower the visitors.
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SY Fred Haney
Kirkwood
Kirkwood High Boys
Soys’ High School
Kirkwood Boys
DeKalb County
Royal High
Mercer Included In Chattanooga Football Schedule
Corbett Owen, Abingdon, elected captain for next fall. The 1922 schedule lists October 1 open, October 8 Tennessee at Knoxville, October 15 Georgetown Ky. at Chattanooga, October 22 Howard at Gadsden, October 25 Maryville at Chattanooga, November 5 Sewanee at Chattanooga, November 11 Birmingham Southern at Birmingham, and November 19 Mercer at Macon.
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Tenn
Ebruary
Corbett Owen
Abingdon
University of Chatanooga
Tennessea
Knoxvile
Georgetown
Chattanooga
Howard
Gadsden
Alabama
Maryville
Sewants
Birmingham Southern
Birmingham
Mercer
Macon
Judge Tells Ansley Party Story and Dinner Offer
Judge recounts events at Ansley party with Manager Criey ton offering to pay for dinner and entertainment to ensure orderly festivities. He admitted sending two policewomen a £2 hotel observation fund and noted prior similar cases. Trial resumes today as questions about hotel headquarters and past murders are challenged. An Yonkers automaker unveils a rapid four car limo conversion. Government to study Portugal rivers for hydroelectric rail and lighting use.
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Lown
Roy Dorsey
Dorsey
Dorsey Asked Councilman
Hoffman
Floya ‘Woodward
Yale to Have Winter Work in Football Practice
Yale plans winter football work under Tad Jones as eastern rivals Ohio State Princeton Minnesota and Harvard explore winter conditioning. The piece notes Penns basketball and boxing ventures and highlights Dick Landon Olympic high jump winner along with remarks on Minnesota students and conference dynamics.
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Walter Camp
New York
Yale
Tad Jones
West Coast
Ohio State
Yaiea Declaren
Princeton
Tigers
Bill Roper
Dick Landon
Alma Richards
Wesley Oler
Baseball Strife and Reform Echoes Across Chicago White Sox Case
The piece argues the White Sox fixing case will shape baseball more than the verdict itself, contending juries are public in bleachers, condemning Judge Landis yet defending his role. It discusses player migration, New York club abuse, and calls for tighter ethics, referencing Pat Daly’s boxing scorecard idea and protests against wealthier clubs tampering with rosters.
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N.Y
New York
Glanta
Yankees
Bank
Young Athens man commits death by own action
Carlton Johnson a 38 year old Athens business man shot himself with a pistol in a local drug store shortly after noon. He died within minutes. No probable cause is known. He was the son of the late Mr and Mrs George Johnson of Athens and is survived by two brothers Hershel of Athens and Eugene of Albany Ga.
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Athens
Carlton Johnson
George ‘I, Johnson
Hershel Johnson
This City
Eugene Johnson
Albany, Ga
Houston Police May Seek To Hold Noted Escapee Elliott
Houston police may seek to hold Dr J W Elliott of LaGrange Georgia after a 1909 escape and a 1917 recapture. Elliott faced possible execution for robbery with threat to kill in Texas and earlier escaped from Milledgeville. Authorities plan to pursue the extreme penalty if extradition or return to Georgia is arranged.
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Houston
Texas
J. W. Elliott
LaGrange
Joseph Brown
J. C. Dozenfield
Elliott
El-iott
Tom Branch
Evangelist Douglas Wauchope to Hold Meetings in Adel
Reverend Douglas Wauchope, evangelist and singer, will begin a series of meetings at the Presbyterian church in Adel on February 15. He recently conducted a highly successful meeting in Tifton and will continue the series for several days.
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Adel
Speciel
Douglas Wauchope
Presbyterian Church
Wauchope
Tifton
Memphis Banker Faces Court In Liberty Bond Theft Case
Memphis banker W L Huntley Jr and drugstore owner H Diggs Nolen and his wife Ethel Wyckoff Nolen were arraigned in police court on receiving stolen liberty bonds linked to the Brooklyn brokers’ messenger robbery. Bond totals around 466000, with about 250000 traced through a Memphis bank. Huntley case adjourned to Friday. Vardaman, son of ex senator, was put on vacation amid probe into sale of a 135000 bond block. Statements show misidentifications and intro by Vardaman and Black as Wood, but source of bonds remains unclear.
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Tenn
W. L. Huntley, Jr
H. Diggs Nolen
Ethel Wyckoff
Nolen
Liberty Bonds
Brooklyn
Huntley
New York
James M. Vardaman
United States
James K. Vardaman
Mississpyp
Vardaoman
Vardaman
C. Samuel Black
Mr. Black
A. K. Tigrett
Samuel Black
Mr. Vardaman
Mr. Wood
Mr. Tigrett
Wood
Black
Perjury confession alleged in Mooney case
New York reports Walsh of Mooney defense telegraphs San Francisco authorities about an affidavit by John McDonald claiming he perjured himself in Mooney’s 1918 preparedness day bombing trial. McDonald describes being coached and undermines alibi timing, with nine deaths in the explosion and Mooney’s death sentence later commuted to life.
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New York
PB. Walsh
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Mooney
Walsh
John McDonald
Trenton
N. J
Ficker
Mr. Walsh
McDonald
Stewart Street
Market
Market Street
Hexton
Billings
Edward Cunha
Eon
Pelicaman Draper Hand
Medical Association Meets in Statesboro
Savannah Ga February 3 Special The First Congressional District Medical Association will hold its mid winter meeting in Statesboro on February 24 Dr Charles Usher Savannah Ga president of the organization
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Savannah
First Congressional District Medical Association
Statesboro
Charles Usher
Harding deserts stuck houseboat for rail transit
Daytona February 3 President elect Harding abandoned the Victoria houseboat after efforts to pull it from the mud failed. He planned to come ashore at dawn and proceed by train up the coast to St Augustine. The return expedition involved a jungle trail and a perilous pier approach to reach the Victoria, echoing a prior Texas exit mishap.
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Daytona
Fie
Seabreeze
Harding
Victoria
Mosquits
St. Augustine
Rioting Follows Running of Cars in Albany and Troy
In Albany and Troy today United Traction operated streetcars under open shop conditions, triggering riots. Police fired in Troy, striking several strike-breakers as cars were wrecked and lines sabotaged. Eleven days earlier a strike by 1,200 workers over a 24 percent wage cut halted main lines. Cars carried no passengers. The company plans to send out a car crew of strike-breakers early tomorrow.
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Albany
N. Y
Troy
United Traction Company
South Africa Votes on Secession Issue
South Africa faces a pivotal ballot in the February 8 election for a new legislative assembly in the union. The vote asks whether the Cape of Good Hope Natal Transvaal and Orange River State remain loyal to the King as a dominion or unite as an independent republic. English sympathy leans to loyalists while both sides favor settling disputes by ballot.
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England
South Africa
Cape of Good Hope
Natal
Transvaal
Orange Street
South African Union
Britain says US navy not a menace to English minds
Sir Philip Gibbs told the House Naval Committee that Britain will not race the United States for sea power and Englishmen do not view the American navy as a menace. He urged including the Russian soviet government in any disarmament talks and warned of a growing number of professional soldiers in Russia. An invitation from the U.S. for a disarmament conference would be broadly welcomed in Britain, though some government factions oppose it.
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Great Britain
United States
Philip Gibbs
House Naval Committee
England
Gale
Philip
Red Army
Russia
Europe
Sir Philip
Alabama Population Figures Stir Census Bureau Report
Washington reports Alabama’s 1920 census shows white residents at 1,447,622 and Black residents at 300,652, with whites rising 13,200 and Black population dropping 7,620. Indians 405, Chinese 69, Japanese 1, and others 3. Males 1,173,105 and females 1,175,069 reflect a shift in sex ratio since 1910. The foreign-born white population was 17,662 in 1920, down from 18,956 in 1910. Additionally, at the zoo, captive birds are fed by electric-light cues set by keepers.
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Washington
Alabama
Charge on Coal Prices Sparks Senate Probe
Washington in February witnesses testified before the Calder coal regulation bill committee that a local coal dealers’ association kept prices high and cut supplies to undercut rivals. John C L Ritter said the group put him out of business while Senator Reed pressed for Justice Department involvement. Ritter recalled price raises and pressure to contract only with the association, and said after April 1920 he could not obtain coal. The committee planned corroborating testimony the next day.
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Senate
John C. L. Ritter
la Follette
Department of Justice
Coal Men's Association
Ritter
Gil
Association
Senator Reed
la Folletta
Reed
War surplus sales yield 56 percent return on cost
Washington reports that surplus War Department goods near Nashville sold to bidders, including the Old Hickory plant, at about 56 percent of cost. Morse, a sales director, testified before a house committee that property valued at 1.175 billion dollars, plus 150 million in materials to other departments, could total around 1.35 billion in remaining surplus. He noted policy favored buyers developing wartime plants and mentioned bids from National Industrial Corporation and Longs Metals, while no formal contract was submitted. Morse said immunity questions were waived.
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War Department
Nashville
Tenn
EH. C. Morze
House
Morse
National Industrial Corporation of Nashville
Chaitr
Man Graham
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