West Virginia sports notes and Beaver high school clash preview
In Welch and Beaver sports chatter, Eddy's Mc Dowell Wildcats prep for a February 19 basketball clash while Beaver aims to defend its turf. Ohio Valley hikers leader Temble DeBemis promotes local hiking clubs in Bluefield and plans a Sunday outreach. Ernie Nevers and Red Wingo stir major league talk, and West Virginia players miss all American honors. Beaver season tickets go on sale for two dollars as Beaver girls and boys eye a busy basketball season.
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William C. DeBemis
Ohio Valley Hikers’ Association of
Cincinnati
Bluefield
DeBemis
Honaker
Eddy
McDowell Wildcats
Beaver Athletic Association
Beaver High
Perfetti Named to Meet Fidel La Barba at Madison Square Garden
Promoter Tex Rickard announced Lew Perfetti of New York would face world flyweight champion Fidel La Barba of Los Angeles in the semi final on the Christmas fund card at Madison Square Garden December 23. Perfetti substitutes for Joe Lazarus of Bayonne who canceled due to illness.
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New York
Tex Rickard
Lew Perfetti
Mtv
Fidel la Barba
Los Angeles
Madison Square Garden
Perfetti
Joe Lazarus
Bayonne
N. J
Navy trips Western Maryland in Maryland tilt
Navy dominates Western Maryland 63 to 16 at Annapolis as college basketball action resumes. Juniata defeats Pennsylvania State University Penn State 38 to 22 in a separate regional matchup.
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Annapolis, Md
Navy
Western Maryland
College Basketba State
Penn
Juniata
Knute Rockne and Grange Draw Fire In Sports Misadventures
Fragments recount Knute Rockne, Red Grange, and college football jabs, plus a Amherst fur coat theft case. The piece mentions a missed Rockne Columbia game, Grange overrated talk, and a double cross play. Amherst sophomores Tad Jones and Paul Mohardt face larceny charges over fur coats in a campus prank gone wrong.
Paul Kemmerer Named as Wesleyan Grid Captain
Buckhannon West Virginia December 16 Paul Kemmerer sophomore from Duquesne Pennsylvania was today elected captain of the 1926 West Virginia Wesleyan football team. He plays guard and becomes the first underclassman captain in over ten years for the Wesleyan varsity eleven. Seventeen players earned varsity monograms this season.
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Buckhannon
W. Va
Paul Kemmerer
Duquesne
West Virginia Wesleyan
Kemerer
Wesleyan
National Town and Country Club to coordinate sports
New York December 16 directors of the newly organized National Town and Country Club call a January 21 meeting to coordinate activities in golf tennis shooting and other sports. The conference grows from committees formed by 1 000 business and professional men in Detroit New York Cleveland and Chicago.
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New York
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago
Waynesburg schedules West Virginia teams for 1926 season
Waynesburg College released its 1926 football schedule listing three West Virginia opponents Broaddus at Waynesburg October 2 West Virginia Wesleyan at Clarksburg October 16 and Bethany at Waynesburg November 20 with an open date October 30 Frank H Wickhorst was elected Navy football captain for 1926 a former Illinois freshman teammate of Red Grange and a Navy varsity player for two years.
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Waynesburg
West Virginia
Waynesburg College
Broaddus
West Virginia Wesleyan
Clarksburg
W. Va
Bethany
Waytesburg
Wagnesburg
Wickhorst
NAVY
Baltimore
Frank H
Illinois
Naval Academy
Red” Grange
University of Illinois
Walter Eckersall A College Grid Great and His Feats
Walter Eckersall the famed Chicago star is hailed as one of the greatest quarterbacks. The 1904 1905 and 1906 standout starred for the Maroons from 1900 to 1906 and earned All America honors twice. He tallied long touchdown runs and notable field goals and once outpaced Heston after a late hit. He booted five field goals in two games and remains renowned for accuracy inside 45 yards.
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Walter Bckersall
Chicago
Eckersall
Maroons
Fleet Afool
Heston
Graver
Michigan
Bckersall
Nebraska
Illinois
Beng
Walter Camp
Pitchers Face Resin Use Debate Reopens in Baseball
Billy Evans argues resin use by pitchers risks cheating and trick pitching, warning it shifts blame to umpires and opens doors to illegal methods. He recalls past abuses like emery and ball tampering, urging caution as leagues weigh rule changes and enforcement.
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Karanel
Move to curb rising divorces proposed in Congress
Washington December 16 measures to check mounting divorces were introduced today by Senator Capper Kansas Republican. Drafted by a General Federation of Women’s Clubs committee the bills seek a constitutional amendment to standardize marriage and divorce laws and a uniform measure. It would require two weeks notice for marriage licenses set sixteen for women and eighteen for men with parental consent and eighteen and twenty-one without. It bans marriage of the feeble minded or of relatives within the first degree and those with incurable diseases.
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Washington
Genator Capper
Republican
Kansas
General Federation of Womens Clubs
Mayor Regulates Traffic With Sunset Hours Proclamation
Copenhagen reports Koene's mayor issues a curbside rule restricting cycles and motor vehicles to their last thirty minutes before sunset. The proclamation sets an exact hour to be fixed by the mayor, citing historical comparisons to King Canute.
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Copenhagen
Canute
Koene
Resolutions Call for More Time From President
At a base meeting of about 400 men students tonight, the gathering passed resolutions urging the president to grant the students additional time to consider the matter.
Uncle Sam depicted as Canadians view him at Pan-American
New York reports delegates to the Pan American Congress draw a Canadian perspective on the United States. Canadians advocate stronger bars against immigration while favoring fewer restrictions on Canadian goods. Case R. Howard of the Canadian Bank of Commerce sees the border as an invisible seam and a possible bridge between nations.
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New York
United States
Pan-American Congress
Wil'non
Sevente Board of Trade
Canada
Case R. Howard
Canadian Bank of Commerce
TRY UNDERSIZED YOUTH CHARGED WITH TRIPLE MURDER
Yellville Ark December 16 Arnold Comer fourteen year old mountain boy held in connection with a triple murder and a five day orgy of crime near Buffalo Marion county likely to get a preliminary hearing tomorrow The undersized lad talked freely to officers about slaying Mrs Sarah Boyd her granddaughter and Charles Moore a fur buyer He showed no evident remorse while news of his father buying him shoes and a hat reached him The boy s father arrived in Yellville today
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Yellville
Ark
Arnold Comer
Buffalo
Marion County
Sarah Boyd
Charles Moore
Star right hander is purchased by Yankees
Myles Thomas, star right handed twirler of the Toronto Internationals last season, has been purchased by the New York Yankees. Manager Miller Huggins announced today before leaving for his Cincinnati home. He declined to disclose the purchase price. Thomas, who first joined the Yankees for a trial in 1921, has developed rapidly in the minor leagues and starred with Toronto for the past three years.
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Cincinnati Reds
Ivy Wingo
Ivy
Cincinnati
Reds
Wingo
Detroit
Ty Cobb
Red Wingo
Cobb
Garry Hermann
New York
Myles Thomas
Toronto Internationa
New York Yankees
Miller Huggins
Thomas
Yankees
Toronto
No War Near East Over Mosul Award Envisaged
Reported continued on page one, a 25 year Irak mandate proposal includes Mosul and foresees a six month timeline. Britain vows action and recommends granting Kurds local administrative rights. Turkish spokesman dismisses the council decision and warns the Kurdish split between England and Turkey risks.
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Mosul
Irak
Great Britain
England
Turkey
Grid Star Arraigned on a Larceny Charge
Northampton Massachusetts report dated December 16 notes Amherst College player Paul M. Mohardt arraigned on a larceny charge. The brief item confirms the accusation and the involved parties without further details.
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Northampton
Mass
Paul M. Mohardt
Amherst College
Lafayette Football Names Captain for 1926 Team
Waston Pennsylvania December 16 1925 Kirkleski of Nutley New Jersey was tonight elected captain of the 1926 Lafayette football team.
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Waston
Kirkleski
Nutley
N. J
Lafayette
Notice of Dissolution of National Brokerage Company
Notice is hereby given that the partnership between T. Gillispie J. Dudley and Russell S Tate trading as National Brokerage Company has been dissolved as of December 10 1925. The business will be continued by T. Gillispie and J. Dudley who assume all obligations since April 1925. Russell S Tate.
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T. &. Gillseple
Dudley
Ruesel S. Tate
National Brokerage Company
T. 8
Gillispie
J. 8
Russell
Tate
Body of Wilburn Hennen Brought to Fairmont
Wilburn Hennen aged twenty three son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence M Hennen of Fairmont was killed in an automobile crash near Ava Ohio Tuesday night. His body and his father and brother arrived in Fairmont tonight. He formerly studied at Bucknell University Lewisburg Pa and belonged to the Sons of the Revolution West Virginia. Funeral plans are not made.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Wilburn Hennen
Lawrence M. Hennen
Ava
Ohio
Bucknell University
Lewisburg
Soiety
the Sons of the Revolution of
West Virginia
Plan Improvements in Dirigible Design by Navy Study
Washington reports the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics began a study to improve all metal lighter than air craft. A Detroit group including Henry Ford seeks to build under Navy contract. Key Detroit participants with Secretary Wilbur included W. B. Mayo, Ford chief engineer.
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Washington
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Detroit
Henry Ford
Navy
Wilbur
W. B. Mayo
Ford
No Suitable Basis for Suggested Coalition
Berlin reports that Erle Koch will abandon his attempt to form a cabinet as the Social Democratic party finds no suitable basis for a coalition after ongoing negotiations.
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Berlin
Erle Koch
Social Democratic Party
Reclamation Bill Aims to Recapture Delinquent Land
Washington reports an amendment to the reclamation act would allow the reclamation bureau to recapture land of delinquent settlers and let railroads act as selling agents for the tracts without commission. An agreement at a conference between railroad and bureau officials set the plan to submit to Congress.
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Washington
Reclamation Act
Reclamation Bureau
Congress
Railroad and Bureau
Students denounce plan against prohibition on campus
Ann Arbor Michigan December 16. Students denounce the plans of Dr Clarence Cook Little president of the University of Michigan to enforce prohibition on the campus as unjustifiable and destined to provoke conflict on campus and in university life. The resolutions condemn the policy and call for reconsideration to avoid curbing academic freedom and student rights.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
Clarence Cook Little
University of Michigan
Commission to define intoxicating beverage proposed
Washington December 16 A resolution in the house by Representative Seger Republican New Jersey asks for a commission to determine what constitutes an intoxicating beverage The proposed panel would include three senators three representatives and three persons named by the president
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Washington
Seger
Republican
New Jersey
Red Grange Returns to Bears After Trip Gaining Big Payday
Red Grange came back from Danville to the Chicago Bears with an improved arm and plans to join the team for a Christmas game in Coral Gables. His road trip ends with over $100,000 earned for three weeks of work, and his pro stats show a strong eight game run after eight games. He totaled 1818 yards and six touchdowns in seven college games, with notable scores against Penn and a 190 yard pro gain. Crowds during the season ranged from 6,000 to 65,000, with attendance peaking at New York events and Pittsburgh drives drawing large crowds.
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Chicago
Red” Grange
Danville
Chicago Bears
Bears
Florida
Coral Gables
Grange
Cancer Orange
Red
University of Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Washington
Pitteburg
Pittehu
Miners Strike Backed With Local Aid Vote
Cleveland on December 16 the Cleveland Federation of Labor voted six hundred dollars to aid miners from Northern West Virginia on strike for nearly two months. Richards of Columbus, an organizer for the United Mine Workers, urged reorganizing in forty years while stating fifteen to eighteen thousand anthracite miners are on strike in Pennsylvania. He noted substantial income loss and announced investments to support miners and families in West Virginia.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Federation of Labor
West Virginia
Richards
Columbus
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Appeal One Arm Wolfe For New Trial Denied
Chas One Arm Wolfe, convicted of murder in the deaths of Ben and Mary Hance, was denied a new trial in Muncie Indiana. He will appeal to the state supreme court. Sentenced to life imprisonment. Wolfe was indicted with the late George Anderson, a bandit associate of Gerald Chapman. The Hances were alleged to have been murdered in retaliation for a police officer’s death.
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Muncie
Ind
Chas
Wolfe
Muror
Ben
Mary Hance
Supreme Court
George
Dutch) Anderson
Gerald Chapman
Hances
Cha
Appeals of Chile Forwarded to President Coolidge
Arica Chile December 16. The Chilean member’s appeals to the Tacna Arica plebiscitary commission were certified and transmitted to President Coolidge the arbitrator. An official communique says the commission kept strict reserve on the nature of the appeals. The certification vote was declared unanimous.
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Arica
Chile
Tacna Arica
Coolidge
Expected conference fails to materialize in South Bend
South Bend Indiana December 16 The anticipated meeting between the board of athletic control and Coach Knute Rockne did not take place today. Rockne remains indisposed at his home and Rev Matthew Walsh president of Notre Dame was engaged with other affairs leaving the tangle with Columbia University unresolved for the moment.
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South Bend
Ind
Board of Athletic Control
K. K. Rockne
Columbia University
Rockne
Matthew Walsh
Notre Dame
Yankees send two pitchers to Atlanta for Zoeller
Two young pitchers, ee Maley and Sam Wernke, will be sent by the New York Yankees to the Atlanta club of the Southern Association as part payment for out fielder Frank Zoeller, it was announced today.
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Atla Atlanta New York
Ee Maley
Sam Wernke
New York Yankees
Atlanta
Southern Association
Frank Zoeller
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