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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1924
Page
11
Army Notre Dame clash tops a slate of major football showdowns on Saturday with implications for national and conference titles. Michigan, Illinois, Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Navy, Harvard, Tulane, Vanderbilt, and others figure in pivotal contests shaping the 1924 season race.
Mrs. Thomas Harris of Dover New Jersey explains how her son Stanley Harris known as Bucky became a Senat owner manager. She credits Hughey Jennings for shaping his progress noting their 1918 connection when her husband and Jennings played on sandlots near Pittston Pennsylvania.
New York reports Young Stribling the Georgia schoolboy boxer has retired four months to rest his studies. Promoters said this came in response to bids for his services. Carson Bigbes will be a pirate regular unless he begins strong next season.
In Norwalk on October 14 the Knights of Columbus beat Spring Woods touching Buck Lynch for 12 late hits. Art Olson pitched and allowed seven hits while striking out eleven, with Gordon shining at bat and in the field. The game was highlighted by Olson's control and Lynch's seven strikeouts. The score:
Stamford St. Marys beat Wilton 9 to 0 as Babe Moger pitched six hits allowed and kept Wilton scoreless. Richardson singled and scored in the third, Ryan doubled and scored in the fifth, Walsh drove in two runs. Wilton failed to any offense despite bases loaded with one out in the ninth.
Colgate University's 1910 football line features seven forwards all non smokers. Captain Saville Crowther Bryn Mawr left guard G Dewey Hynes Cha tham right end Rae Crowther Bryn Mawr right end Lloyd Beuthel Brittato right tackle Charles Strack Boring Valley left tackle John Catrose Atlantic City senior William Kern Buffalo right guard.
New York October 14 President Coolidge may attend the Army Notre Dame football game at the Polo Grounds next Saturday. Notre Dame club will send an invitation to the President this afternoon and a special box may be prepared if he accepts. The President has a tentative engagement in New York that night.
Former neighbors recall the Harris couple hoping for a daughter after the 1887 birth of an eight pound boy. They left the baby unnamed for about a day as Pa Harris refused the name Tom and a newspaper headline about Henry M. Stanley’s Africa conquest arrived, shaping the anecdote.
The piece mashes slangy golf talk with boxing paydays and sports wisdom. It cites Tack Hardwick of Harvard in a tense moment, contrasts American boxing money with British limits, and mocks relying on fortune or nerves rather than practice. It also jokes about concentration in college sports and salary desires.
That gave Pa Harris an idea and his offspring was named Stanley Harris the boy wonder who, in his first year as a major league manager, led the Washington Senators from obscurity to the top of baseball. Six years later Mrs Harris persuaded him to leave railroading for coal mining in Pittston Pennsylvania. Stanley played school and sandlot ball there and learned the diamond game. Flint Rehm, a new Cardinal pitcher, is a capable if not husky colleague with a zip fastball and a hard to catch knuckle ball.
New York October 14 The Associated Press reports John McGraw plans a 1925 return with Lindstrom likely at third base and Snyder fading as he builds a young pitching core. Dean Mann Baldwin Lindstrom Terry Frisch Jackson and others fuel optimism for a stronger Giants team next season. Groh may be sidelined by a knee injury as McGraw weighs lineup changes.
Cincinnati October 14 President August Herrmann of the Reds flatly denied rumors that star outfielder Ed Roush would be traded to New York or any other club. He said certain players including Roush would not be traded and would form the nucleus of the 1925 Reds.
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