Cunningham and Cragin Win National Indoor Lawn Tennis Title
Arthur Cragin and W Dickson Cunningham, Yale’s famed doubles pair, won the national indoor lawn tennis championship in New York at the 7th Regiment Armory. They defeated Frederick B. Alexander and Dr William Rosenbaum in five sets 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0, with Cragin’s driving and volleying and dramatic lobbing on the indoor court delivering the key play.
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Kid Wonder
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7Th Regiment Armory
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Armory Hall
Camp Upton
English Soccer Results From League Matches Across Regions
London reports list English League results with Blackburn Rovers 6 Everton 1 and Liverpool 7 Burnley 1, plus Manchester United 0 and Notts County 3. Midland results include Barnsley 1 Leicester Fosse 0 and Grimsby Town 4 Lincoln City 1. Scottish League outcomes show Airdrieonians 3 Hibernians 0 and Rangers 3 Clyde 0.
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Clyde Bank
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Motherwell
Third Lanark
Kilmarneck
Early in June Australian swimmer to challenge American rivals
News notes from June cover Fanny Durack the world champion preparing to visit the United States to race against top American women. The column also mentions Jimmy Lavan der and Pat Moran amid MLB and minor league chatter, plus assorted track and indoor meet chatter, and regional high school league ambitions in Massachusetts and Palmer areas.
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Fanny Durack
Jimmy Lavender
Holyoke
Jimmy
Pat Moran
Phillies
Company K Beats Company II In Bridgeport Indoor Clash
Company K of the Bridgeport Home Guard Indoor league defeated Company II at the armory last night 18 to 17. A ninth inning rally clinched the win and made the game one of the best and most exciting this season.
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Bridgeport Home Guard
Company II
The
Armory
Jeliffe Looks Like Champion in College Sports Fears
Art Jeliffe, ex Pennsylvania captain, questions Intercollegiate Basketball Rules Committee on fouling rules. Yale shifts coaching for its baseball squad as Billy Lauder departs New Haven. Dutch Carter steps in. Fred Walker signs with St Louis Cardinals but will pursue football next season with multiple Eastern schools offering. Dartmouth to rely on amateur coach due to finances as Horace Pender heads Diamond season.
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Giant
Wiliams
Columbia
New Haven
Yale
Dutch" Carter
Lauder
Fred Walker
Williams College
St. Louis Cardinals
Chicago University
Walker
Dartmouth
Hanover
Horace Pender
Readville Grand Circuit Race Plans Stir Hal Mile Talk
News notes discuss a Readville meet plan to reserve one race daily for horses from half mile tracks to attract Short Shippers. Henry Clark says the format may offer time allowances and draw faster rivals, with four second allowances on twice-around times.
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Penn Coach Plans for Schoolboy Talent Boost
Lawson Robertson expects Penn track to gain schoolboy talent as Indoor season ends and lays groundwork for next fall. Two hundred service members will compete in military events at Preparedness Games tomorrow night. Amateur events loom with A A U plans and Boston championship dates. Clin ton Larsen eyes New York debut high jump while Johnny Overton versus John Ray race at Meadowbrook is cancelled.
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University of Pennsylvania
Fred Rublen
Metropolitan Association
Dean
Fret W. Rubsen
Amateur Athletic Union of
United States
Johnny Overton
Johc Ray
Kay
Weeghman warns holdouts as Cubs head for spring camp
Charles H. Weeghman president of the Chicago Nationals warns players labeled as holdouts that unless they agree to terms before the club leaves for spring training in Pasadena California next month they will need to seek other employment. He adds the club did not make large salary cuts despite the war and implies major league clubs cannot pay enormous salaries.
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Iveb
Charles H. Weeghman
Chicago Nationals
Usadena
Cal
Weeghman
Upsets Noted at Tennis Tourney
New York February 22 Arthur Deagin and W Dickson Cunningham former Yale captain upset top contenders in the final of a special doubles event at the Seventh Regiment Armory defeating S R Alexander and Jor Rosenbaum in five sets The score was 2 6 3 0 6 0 Miss Molin Limstedt and H A Throckmarton outplayed Miss Maria Wagner and W M Hall in an exhibition mixed doubles 7 6 6 all when called
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Deagin
W. Dickson Cunningham
Yale
Seventh Regiment Armory
S. ET. Alexander
Jor
William Rosenbaum
D—T
Molin Limstedt
H. A. Throckmarton
Maria Wagner
W. M. Hatl
Kieckhefer Wins Billiard Match in Red Cross Tourney
Chicago February 22 Champion Augie Kieckhefer won the Red Cross tournament by defeating Bob Cannefax 50 to 44. Cannefax nearly tied a world record with a 16 break in the afternoon. Cararile Isis finished second and Cannefux third in the event.
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Augie Kieckhefer
Red Cross
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Wea
Cararile Isis
Cannefux
Banking Chaos in Russia Retards Advance
Financial commentary discusses Bolshevik upheaval delaying market gains in New York. It argues democracy, not tyranny, will guide Russia's future, warns against German annexation terms, and stresses peace prospects as key to securities. It covers treasury needs, private enterprise limits, war-affected trade, railroads under government, and the third Liberty loan financing plan.
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Verdun
Italy
Nfe
Eense
Arrest for False Draft Answers by Albert Volpe
Albert Volpe of 124 Clarence Street was arrested after allegedly filing a false affidavit on a draft questionnaire. Investigated by Charles Lane of the DOJ, Volpe was arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Hugh Laverty and held under $500 bail. The affidavit claimed his wife was dependent, but records show no support for over a year as he sought to dodge military service by promising support to his wife.
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Clarence Street
Charles Lane
United States Department of Justice
United States
Hugh Laverty
Volpe
Local Soldier Denies Delinquent Label
Not a slacker claim reaches readers as Friends or Frank 5 railips of 241 Alex Street deny the published statement that the young man is a shaft delinquent. Philips’ name appeared as a questionaire delinquent, but he is serving in France with the 02nd Ambulance Company, 191st Sanitary Train, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Force on active duty.
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Railips
Alex Street
Philips
France
L02nd Ambulance Company
191St Sanitary Train
Tobacco expert Robert Meaginnis dies at 69
Greenwich February 22 Robert Meaginnis a New York businessman and tobacco expert died suddenly at his Bound Beach home of heart failure. Born in New York he was 69 and a College of the City of New York graduate. He helped organize the Catholic club of New York and was noted as a philanthropist.
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Robert MeaGinnis
New York
Bound Beach
The
College of the City of New York
Catholic Club of New York
Hartford Man Victim of Gas Poisoning
Hartford, Feb 22 Herman P iTeing aged 58 was found dead in his home from accidental gas asphyxiation. He was a motion picture agent and former proprietor of a motion picture theater in Springfield. For years he worked as a marketman in New London where two sisters reside. Two other sisters live in Hartford.
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Herman P. iTeing
Notion Picture Theater
Springfield
New London
Milford Draft Men to Leave for Devens Wednesday
Milford will send 30 draftees from Milford West Haven and Orange as the last 16 percent of the first quota from Board No.7. They depart on the 8:07 train Wednesday morning to Camp Devens in Ayer Massachusetts. Selected men to be notified today. Registrants with numbers under 200 are urged to prepare for a possible call.
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