Kaplan Wins Fight as Armory Crowd Surges For Tickets
Crowds packed the state armory to witness Kid Kaplan defend his featherweight title. Police reserves were called, doors opened, and ticket shortages led to chaos outside while inside fans jeered and clamored. The night also featured prelims with several weigh-ins and draws as local teams prepared for a city championship series with YMHA and Columbia.
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Connecticut
State Armory
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Billy Ie
Lengien Dominates Bremen in Tennis Note
Sports notes highlight Lengien as a great Bremen tennis player. Mentions U S open golf title winner Culmet, San Diego Junior League with 30 percent youth, Calza wrestling and Bermuda distance race, and historical boxing context with Fitzsimmons over heavyweight limit. Also notes the Bermuda distance race from London Connecticut June 30 and global Skating Union membership.
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San Diego
Jee Calza
North South championship tourney set for March
Teams are tied in GE league as the twenty fourth annual North South championship meet for women is scheduled in C March 25 to 380. The relay carnival expects about 600 entrants from Eastern and Midwest colleges. Wills, long viewed as a potential Dempsey opponent, features among notable boxers with large gloves in a roundup mentioning Sam Laneford Teague Records. Dodgers show high team totals and singles.
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Whaole
Tae Tigers
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Baldwin
Compo Lifeguards Aim For County Crown In Tight Race
Compo Life Guards with 14 wins in 17 games vie for county title after runner-up finish last season to M H A of Bridgeport. They beat Stratford American Legion in a four game series and face Blessed Sacraments from Bridgeport next Friday at the Y court. Captain Eddie McMehon leads with 136 points, Eddie Quinn has 109. Team record 14-3. standings list Brickport Big Five, Lock City Five, Port Chester, Stamford squads among others.
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Life Guard
Bridgeport
Stratford American Legion
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Blessed Sacraments
Eddie MccMehon
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Bridgeport Big Five
Lock City Five
Port Chester
Stamford
New Canaan
Holy Cross
Norwalk
Stratford Legion
Stamford_ Blues
Hudson Essex
White Plains
Sterlings Sew Up Lead in Boys Club Basketball Race
The Sterlings hold a wide lead in the senior Boys' Club basketball league with a three game cushion as the season nears its end. Central trails in second place, making clinching the title likely for Sterlings.
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Sterlings
Centera
1926 American Bowling Congress tournament lands in Toledo
The 1926 championship tourney of the American Bowling Congress will be held in Toledo to set a new high score of contestants. Last year the event drew about 2,200 teams and the 1924 Chicago meet had 2,132 teams competing.
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Toledo
Chicarago
Congress High to Play Ridgefield
Congress High travels to Ridgefield to face the town team as Kaplan rests off a sick bed and their center is out. A previously postponed game with Newtown has a new date, and a bowling league season opens with Connie Lewis' alleys hosting the initial three-man, three-string contests.
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Congress High
Athletics Spring Squad at Fort Myers Training Camp
Thirty two bill players will comprise the Philadelphia Athletics squad at the Fort Myers training camp with Seventeen Bates and the District of Columbia represented in the group.
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Fort Myers
Bates
District of Columbia
CAGE TITLES AT STAKE IN TONIGHT CONTESTS
Amateur boxers from Norwalk and Danbury meet at the Liberty building on Main Street at 4 30 p m to travel to Norwalk for a boxing show at the Armory. Boxers Ted Lacroix John Helly Bob Tueto George Knieht Jack Sullivan Joe Michaels Tom Heaney and others from Danbury will box with Bridgeport boys in tonight’s event.
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Main Street
Norwalk
Armory
Ted Lacroix
John Helly
Bob Tuceto
George Knieht
Jack Sullivan
Joe Michaels
Tom Heaney
Joe Nagy
Ben Whitting
Ed McCarthy
Jon Tuby
Jack Beary
Pat Duffy
Rob Buckley
Ed Barder
Vin Vance
Pete Stone
Danbury
Bridgeport
British Soccer Scores and Local Court Tonight Remain Busy
London reports English First Division Blackburn Rovers 3 Sheffield United 4 and Second Division Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 Darlington 0. Scottish League lists Aberdeen vs St Johnstone. Tonight the Laurels face the Sixies for the Byward Recreation crown, and Presby meets St Johns for Inter-Church laurels at MC A. City gym hosts North End Triangles vs Onnimal Silli crests in a City League prelim, with Dixies and Laurels squads also listed.
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Blackburn Rovers
Sheffield
United
Wolverhampton Yranderers
Darlington
Laurels
Sixies
Stratford Avenue
Presby
St Johns
Johns
Eeetae Wilber
Ee Fonteen
Etblteget Ve. Lenkton
Tony Pee
Henkie Ce Fino
Eee Gee Middlemans
Veces Crervand
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Onnimal Ssilicrests
Pumninery Up
Baldwin Follows Garrity to Wake Forest Coach Post
Bethlehem Pa March 1 James Baldwin former coach of football baseball and basketball at Lehigh University will succeed Harry Garrity as coach and director of athletics at Wake Forest College North Carolina. Friends report tentative arrangements will soon become definite.
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James Baldhvin
Lehigh University
Yihond
Harry Garrity
Wake Forest
N_C
Baldwin
Athuses
Harding High Quintet Faces Norwalk Five Today
Harding High travels to Norwalk High for a key midweek game as part of a three game stretch this week. The Presidents beat Norwalk earlier this season at home and seek a similar result on a strange court against a wary opponent.
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Norwalk
Norwalk High
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Jack Maaie
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Gigaal Prep
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Carmel
HoyeLinds
Rubber game of sees tomorrow in Bridgeport series
Fairgid, March 1 Special A rubber game between Hudson Essex and Community A C stands as third contest in season. Previous clashes saw the Hudson Essex and Community quintets split results with Bridgeport teams seeking a win. Lineups include Watson Seltenmch Moran Cassidy and Strauss Hekert as notable names in a tightly poised matchup.
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udson-Haset Community
A. C
Park City Five Extends TT Win Streak in Girls City Court Loop
Yale ball notes report forty candidates for PACE on Yale team under freshmen coach Clyde Engle as Joe Wood recovers from chicken pox. Park City juniors win tenth straight in Senior City League by defeating Blessed Sacrament 19 to 15 at Stratford Avenue gym. St Mary girls beat Brooklawn 6 to 2.
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Girls’ City Court Loop
New Haven
Yale Paeball
Clyde Engle
Engle
Joe Wood
Dan Lindley
Skine
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Coleman
Noble
Cushing
Anil Tovejoy
Ewing
Fingle
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Miss Mickelson
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Phe‘lan
Esther Hagen
Dorothy Marion
St. Mary
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Groekiawns
Brooklawns
Saiita
Chestnuts Hold Full Swing in Noisy Nut Loop
Apparent league records show high single by Grimes at 194 and high total of 236 by Boho, Chesnuts leading team single at 421 and team total 1191. Chlerenee M Pisce named coach of eetbalus and DisketbeH at University of Californi for a three year, 990000 annual contract earned by Pete from Wiliversity and linked to Ft ot coun to Andy Smulth since 1910.
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Chlerenee M
Walmis
Sadler
Harpy
Averes
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Vorel Oe
Ed Banson
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Fairfield High Teams Set Busy Week In Basketball
Fairfield high’s Roger Ludlowe squad schedules two return games at home this week. Tuesday they face Greenwich High aiming to overturn a 34 14 defeat earlier in the season, then Friday they host Bridgeport Trade School hoping to repeat a recent win. Fairfield holds seven victories and four losses with one draw this season.
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Roger Ludlowe
Fairfield Gymnasium
Greenwich High School
Ludlowe
Greenwich
Fairfield County
Fairfield Boys
Bridgeport Trade School
Hair-Groom Combines Shine and Style at Low Cost
An advertisement touts Hair-Groom as a dignified combing cream that keeps hair glossy and well groomed all day. It claims simple use, cheap price at drugstores, and even helps growth, promising lustrous, manageable hair for business and social settings.
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