National AAU Outdoor Track Championships Entries Reach 781
Chicago Sept 18 Entries for the National AAU outdoor track and field championships at Great Lakes Naval Training Station total 781, a record. Most entrants are scholastic or intercollegiate stars, with strong military representation from 20 plus service camps. Toronto Royal Air Force adds seven athletes including Earl Thompson. Junior events open to non-first-place winners only. All round championship Monday features 14 men and relays, with about 20 teams in the relays.
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Great Lakes Naval Training Station
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Great Lakes
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Car Mertens
Ladder Truck Collision Injures trio in South Boston blaze
Ladder 5 responding to a fire at John Nagles pawnshop on West Broadway skidded at D Street and Broadway and struck a two horse dump cart and caravan. Harry Muir 49 suffered brain concussion and scalp lacerations. Joseph Crowley 9 years old had minor bruises. Remis Durt minor injuries. Fire damage estimated at 1200 with cause undetermined.
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City Hospital
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Bolton Street
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Remis Durt
Silver Street
John Nagles
West Broadway
Endicott offers speed boat for wartime use
Mrs Henry B Endicott wife of the Massachusetts Public Safety Committee executive manager offers her speed boat capable of 25 mph for government wartime use. The vessel could serve as a patrol for the fishing fleet though no formal reply yet. Navy inquiries indicate possible acceptance.
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Massachusetts Public Safety Committee
Navy Department
Ex Mayor Curley Leads Four Rallies Hearings at Ward 12 Club
Ex mayor Curley spoke at four gatherings including the Ward 12 Tammany Club and streets named Harvard Greenwich and Dorchester. He denounced Gallivan for libel over a claim about his brother in Washington during a war-declaration vote and urged answers on nitrate plant lands and bank consolidation bills.
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Everett Aviator Aids in Downing Hun Balloons
Lieutenant F Luke Jr of Phoenix and Lieutenant J F Wehner of Everett led a dusk raid into German lines destroying three enemy balloons in 36 minutes. One balloon was destroyed yesterday with three more believed shot down. weather hindered further bombing. Wehner, a former Everett High and Exeter Academy captain, served since enlisting with Y M C A in Europe and later joined the aviation corps overseas.
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Associated Press
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Ariz
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Everett
Mass
Luke
Joseph F. Wehner
Everett High
Exeter Academy
Exeter
Europe
London
Gerard
Germany
Wehner
United States
Aviation Corps
Frank. W. Wehner
Lynn Street
North
Carl Mays Leads Red Sox To World Series Title
Carl Mays, famed Red Sox pitcher, added another chapter to a season of great achievement by contributing to the team’s world series triumph. The submarine hurler’s performance last week helped seal the championship and place his name among world series history.
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Red Sox
Carl
Red Sox Hero Marries Miss Madden At New Old South
Yesterday at noon in Copley Square church Carl Mays wed Miss Marjorie Madden of Philadelphia. The pitcher plans to auction ranch assets, join the army, and may not return to baseball soon, with Ralph McDonald as best man and a honeymoon trip to Mansfield, Missouri. Boston fans wish them well and a speedy postwar return.
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New England Conservatory of Music
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Mays
Sox
Boston
Ralph McDonald
Burlington
Mass
Tufts College
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Mansfield
Sam
France
Huns
Aviation Corps
Tendler Outpoints George Chaney in Philadelphia Bout
Lew Tendler the Philadelphia lightweight outpointed George Chaney of Baltimore in a six round bout. Tendler led the first three rounds and the final round, scoring a knockdown in the third for a six count. Chaney fought back in the fourth and fifth rounds.
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Penn
Lew Tendler
George Chaney
Baltimore
Tendler
Chaney
Medfort coach seeks Saturday practice game for Sept 28
Coach Jim Mansfield of Medfort aims to arrange a Saturday practice game on Sept 28 to test new material. He typically starts with a weaker school to allow all players to see action and learn under fire.
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Jim Mansfield
Medfort
Igh
Mansfield
Brown University next month for two English High players
Charlie Merick and Pee Wee Aron son, the city's championship baseball duo at English High, look set to enter Brown University next month. Merick plays third base and Aron son shortstop, with both expected to join Brown's varsity program.
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Charlie Merick
Pee Wee’ Aronson
English High
Brown University
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