Jennings Ready to Join Crackers Line Soon
Morley Jennings, the young shortstop sent to the Crackers by Clark Griffith, shows signs of quitting professional baseball. Letters received Thursday suggest he will be in line shortly, while Hedgepath and Jennings remain unsigned and uncommitted, provoking impatience among Atlanta fans.
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Tennis Star Gardner Wounds Self with Pin
San Francisco Feb 19 Carl ton Gardner the noted tennis star was found to have stabbed himself with a scarf pin during a family visit in Palo Alto. The pin penetrated the lower heart. he is in serious condition at San Jose hospital. Gardner has long struggled with worry over not rising as an artist and champion players praise his past Pacific coast titles and 1912 US top ten ranking.
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Touchard Rosenbaum Tennis Match Today
New York. February 19. G P Jou chard and Dr William Rosenbaum won their places in the final round of the National Indoor Lawn Tennis Championship singles. Touchard, the defending champion, defeated B M Phillips. Dr Rosenbaum advanced from A M Lovibond in the doubles. Touchard and W 2 Cragin joined the semis in doubles after beating Phillips and J Steinacher. Alexander and Pell to play tomorrow.
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Prep School Quintets in Twelfth Round
The twelfth round of Atlanta prep school basketball games is today with Meret at G M A Tech High at Peacock Stone Mountain at Boys High in the schedule.
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Revolver League Standings Update
Springfield and Pittsburg tie for second with 14 wins and 9 defeats each. The Olympic leads the United States Revolver league with 34 wins and no defeats, followed by Dallas in fourteenth place with wins and 9 defeats. The summary notes standings after the sixteenth match in Springfield Massachusetts.
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A Cracker a Day for Fans 12 Welchonce Profile
Editor notes this twelfth installment introduces Harry Monroe Welchonce of the Atlanta Crackers. Welchonce, born 1886 in North Point, is a 5 foot 11 inch left handed batter with right handed throws, led the Southern League in hits last season and set a league record for most hits. He won the Honey Boy Evans trophy this week, accepted by Billy Smith for Welchonce, who is praised as an easy player to manage and a captain designate for the 1914 Crackers season.
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Tech High Faces Columbus Industrial In Prep Championship Test
Tech High meets Columbus Industrial High school in a key prep basketball clash at the Atlanta Athletic Club. The outcome could shape the state level race as Columbus compares with Riverside Military Academy, long viewed as the top local rival.
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Cochran Yacht Steel Mast Set At 110 Feet
Boston February 19 Work began on a steel mast for the yacht built by George Lawley & Bon for ALS Cochran a Cup defense candidate The steel mast will be about 110 feet long and fitted after the sloop is launched Tests are planned with the steel mast before a hollow wooden mast replaces it The project is running about a week behind schedule due to gold weather delays.
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Johnson to Red Sox pitcher signs with Boston club
Rankin Johnson, pitcher for Syracuse in the New York State league, today signed with the Boston Americans of the American League. Johnson posted a 20 win 7 loss record last season and began professional ball in Texas.
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Auburn Five Plays Tech Quint Tonight
The Yellow Jackets meet rival Tech at the Crystal Palace tonight at 8:30. Both teams beat Mercer by similar margins, signaling a tight match. The Jackets also schedule a Saturday game in Chattanooga versus the Tigers, featuring familiar faces on both sides.
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Giants Depart for Marlin Texas Training Camp
New York February 19 The frat squad of New York National League club players left the city for Marlin Texas where the Giants training camp is located Catcher Larry McBean was the only regular among the players with assistants and staff. Additional members will join in Philadelphia Pittsburgh and St Louis The squad will be under Scout Kinnelia at Marlin until Manager John J McGraw arrives around March 11.
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Happy Joe Trent Faces Ed Collins at Columbia Theater Show
Happy Joe Trent, winner of his last three fights, meets Ed Collins in the main ten round bout at the Columbia Theater tonight. The match is winner take all. Two other six and four round bouts follow, Oliver Tierce vs Kid York and Kid Williams vs Kid Ace. The program totals twenty rounds of boxing with gate prices posted.
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Iddie Colling
Columbia
Theater Tumor
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Kid Willams
Kid Aces
Iola Ruston Wins National Amateur Racquet Title
Iola Ruston of Chicago defeated Osborne of New York to win in the National Amateur Racquet Championship at Tuxedo. McCormick beat N W Cabot of Boston, while Lawrence Waterbury of New York defeated C Pike of Chicago and E N Byers of Pittsburgh defaulted to C Hutchens of Boston.
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Auburn Faces Mercer in Macon Rematch Saturday Night
Auburn and Mercer men’s basketball collide in Macon for a return engagement after Auburn edged Mercer by one point at Auburn in the previous meeting.
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Biercer
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Adrian Iselin Weds in New York Botched Date
Adrian Iselin a New York banker and yachtsman and Frederick Bronson were married today in New York. The bride's age is listed as 63, while the groom is described as 72 years old.
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Frank Chance Rescues Three From Floods
In Glendora California February 19 Frank Chance manager of the New York American League baseball team saved his brother in law Karl Pancake and two other men from flood waters. A wall of water five feet deep swept a car from the road overturning it. Chance witnessed the accident and used ropes to pull the men to safety from trees.
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Damages of 1250 Dollars Awarded for Child Killed
Greenville Georgia February 19 Special a Greenville jury awarded 1250 to B F Jones for the death of his infant son struck by a Georgia Railway engine. The verdict grounds the award on the child providing pecuniary value to its parents despite railway defense that an infant has none.
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Pels and Naps Open Spring Training Sunday in New Orleans
New Orleans February 19 After two weeks spring training the Cleveland American team will play the first game of the training season with the New Orleans Southern league club. Manager John Dobbs announced the lineup for the locals listing Sylvester Stacr Barbure Lindsay Cochran Hendryx Edmundson Adams Higgins Cullom Bagby as fielders and Adams Higgins as catchers with Cullom and Bagby as pitchers.
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Georgia State League Adapts Jemison's Dates for Season
Thomasville, Ga February 19 Special The Georgia State League directors unanimously adopted a season schedule by J B Jemison of Thomasville. Jemison, praised as one of Georgia’s best baseball men, prepared the plan gratuitously, superseding Mike Finn’s proposed framework. A silver loving cup from Rothachild of Brunswick arrives as the trophy for the league’s annual winner.
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Bonus contract lures Seaton from Phillies to Federal League
National league bonus contract rules helped the Federal League sign Tom Seaton of the Philadelphia Nationals to join the Chicago Federals. Joe Tinker says the Phillies contract would require nine percent win rate and 35 games to earn the stated salary. Seaton reportedly told Tinker he would take a straight Federal League deal despite Philadelphia’s offer.
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18 Games for Mackmen on Their Spring Trip
Philadelphia announces the Philadelphia American League club spring training schedule totaling 18 games for the regulars including two against the University of Pennsylvania. In Florida they face six games with the Chicago Cubs and one with the St Louis Nationals. On the return trip they will play in Savannah Charleston Wilmington Raleigh Richmond and Baltimore. The Wannigans are booked for 29 games with a likely departure for Jacksonville on Tuesday and a seven week absence from the city. The regulars are due to reach Jacksonville around March.
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Golf Qualifiers Set For Pinehurst Match Play
In Pinehurst North Carolina February 12 qualification rounds narrowed participants for the annual round robin golf tournament Tap scratch fours and five handicap fours qualified for tomorrow’s match play Each player will face every other in the division Whittemore of Brookline Country Club and HC Pownes of Oakmont Golf Club led with strong cards Fownes with a 7 handicap earned the net score trophy
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Paris Hosts Visiting Baseball Teams and Diplomats
Visitors from New York and Chicago baseball teams were guests of honor at a reception in Paris. Ambassador Herrick and several notable figures attended the event, highlighting cultural and athletic ties amid public and political circles in Wakis.
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Columbus Closes the Basketball Season Locally
The Atlanta Athletic Club hosts the Columbus Young Men's Christian Association team in a key season finale. A win keeps Atlanta in contention for second in the Southern title race behind Georgia with Birmingham and Columbus also in the mix. The club game is for members and their invited guests with dancing afterwards.
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Tris Speaker Bales At Signing Contract
Boston February 19 Efforts by Jimmy Callahan manager of the Chicago Americans to sign Tris Speaker with the Boston Americans for next season have failed according to a cablegram from Paris to President Lannum of the Red Sox. Callahan was authorized to secure Speaker to forestall Federal league offers, but Speaker declined to commit to Boston or the Federals until after his return to the United States from the world tour.
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Craill's Gardens Demolished Training Ground for Champs
San Francisco reports Craill's Gardens in Alameda, once the famed boxing training ground across the bay, is being torn down for modern development. Early notable trainees included Tommy Warren and Mike Conley, with legends like Bob Fitzsimmons James J Corbett Jack Dempsey and Terry McGovern also conditioning there for major bouts. Gans Walcott and Dixon among star boxers trained at the site.
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New Class C League Plans Announced for Northeast Region
Providence non February 13. Steven D. Flanigan of the Bay State and John J.E. O'Brien of Fall River announced a promoter of a new class baseball league. The circuit will include Brockton Fall River New Bedford Taunton Worcester Newport Pawtucket and nearby cities.
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Globe girdling flight gains strong support
New York reports strong backing from the International Aeronautical Federation and the Royal Aero Club of Great Britain for the proposed round the world Panama Pacific ship race from San Francisco next year if the Aero Club of America sanctions the flight. The federation letters, seen as significant, were recessed from the federation and the Naval Asia club. The Aero Club will decide on sanctioning the race next Wednesday. Andrew Carnegie urged peace through air advances and urged against aerial weapons.
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Tony Coffey Knocks Out Ross in Dublin Giant Fight
New York boxing notes report Jim Coffey known as the Dublin Giant knocked out Tony Ross of Lancaster, Pennsylvania with a right hook to the jaw in the sixth round of a ten round bout. Coffey weighed 199 pounds while Ross weighed 204.
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Billiard Tourney Planned in Chicago for March
Plans for a billiard tournament for the 14 percent ball line championship to be held in March were announced today. Willie Hovre, champion, leads entrants George Sutton, George Slagson and Kaji Zamada. They will play for 500 dollars.
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Brooklyn Feds Pick Pensacola Spring Training Park
Brooklyn Federal league club closes deal for a Pensacola baseball park and will report there next Monday for spring training actions. The move positions Pensacola as the team’s Florida base this season amid preparations and local arrangements for workouts and facilities.
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Cree Released by New York Americans in Baltimore Move
Baltimore February 19 Cree of the New York Americans was released today to the Baltimore International League inventory.
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Chi Phi and Chi Psi Fraternity Conventions Open in Amherst
The ad annual Chi Psi convention opens in Amherst Massachusetts with delegates from eighteen colleges including a Amherst chapter hosting. Chi Phi springdsia mass meeting kicks off here today as part of the same event bringing together fraternity leaders from across the country.
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Springdsia
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Stahl Agreement Talks With Brooklyn Federals
Chicago February 19 An announcement by James A Gilmore president of a new baseball league states Artie Hofman and Jimmie Block indicated Jake Stahl former Boston American manager might take leadership of the Brooklyn Federals. Stahl said he had not accepted terms and would only manage if terms were right, and he and Gilmore spent the evening in discussion.
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James A Gilmore
Artie Hofman
Jimmie Block
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Mission Talk Heard By Palmetto Solons
In Columbus South Carolina the Palmetto Solons attended a biennial convention closing with a mass meeting. J Campbell White of New York urged volunteers to evangelize globally. The legislature adjourned to join the closing events. A biblical explanation of prayer and evangelization was given. Reports highlighted church education needs and a surge in missionary support.
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House of Representatives
J. Campbell White
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Senara
Eyeglasses Fitting Tips From a Fashion Note
A fragmented ad advises that eyeglasses should fit as neatly as a dress, with emphasis on style, appearance, and comfort. It mentions a shop at 42 X Broad St. in a setting that suggests tailoring and adjustment services for eyewear.
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