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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
2
New York report notes Willie Hoppe plans to hold the billiard championship for 165 or 20 more years by raising his son Willie Jr on a billiard table. Hoppe vows the title stay in the family as his boy grows old enough to compete, while stressing discipline and skill.
The King of balkline billiards Hoppe, 33, rejects retirement rumors as he tours Canada with Charles Peterson. He plans to defend his title against Edouard Horemans and notes earnings around $30,000 yearly. He emphasizes strict discipline and daily practice at home on West 95th Street.
Heavyweight wrestler Marin Plestina, long goaled for a comeback, will face Stanislaus Zbyszko after both failed to secure bouts with Caddock, Lewis, Futcher, and Zbyszko previously. A Plestina win could force the select circle to grant him another chance.
The United States Navy reports that around one hundred ships are currently in different levels of construction. The remark from a red-nosed commentator about curling contrasts with the main item noting ongoing shipbuilding programs across multiple vessel types.
William Tilden Jr twenty years into tennis proves study and dedication shape greatness. He is praised as a wizard and marvel for mixing all styles, correcting flaws, and applying new strokes on court. The piece urges readers to study their own game and persist.
A roundup of 1920s sports gossip notes spans baseball trades and contracts, football scorers, billiards tours, and golf and tennis participation. It references Ed Barrow, Ruth, Hank Greenberg era vibes, Jo e Lynch, Miss Carolyn Plattner, and the Minneapolis syndicate eyeing St. Joseph, with broader hints at prohibition’s impact on athletics.
A lyric fragment mocks post Prohibition attitudes, noting that bidding for Rogers Hornsby is as futile as offering to buy the VU. The text also references the U S navy in a tangential way.
A brief dialogue notes a woman asking why calico is no longer worn and a man named Flo replying he hates to see his own image in print, reflecting a light domestic humor tone from the era.
Chicago January 6 fans mingle with bootleggers and crooks to glimpse Judge Landis baseball’s supreme arbiter. Crowds fill his courtroom as eight White Sox players face grand jury indictments for alleged 1919 World Series fixing while Landis signals a decisive, hands on approach to running the game. He greets fans daily and toys with visitors by asking about their baseball knowledge.
Walter Lincoln Travis of Brooklyn seeks challengers for a strength contest claiming the title of world’s strongest man. He posted $10,000 last October with the editor of Physical Culture magazine to prove his claim, though no takers have appeared. Travis eschews smoking chewing and drinking, and consumes large amounts of candy and pastry.
Americans take the New Zealand tennis championship in both singles and doubles. William Tilden of Philadelphia defeated Captain Washburn, another American, in singles. Tilden and William M. Johnston of San Francisco beat Norman Brooks and Gerald F. Patterson, Australians, in doubles.
Paris blames American dances for its moral rep. Parisian dance masters push a campaign against jazz to curb American styles like the shimmy and cat step. Yet dance halls still favor waltz as old tunes rise.
Cheyenne high school authorities push a two part conference with western members Cheyenne Casper Laramie and University Preps and eastern members Scotts Bluff Sidney Simpall and Windsor with a central board to schedule games issue rules and settle disputes Lieutenant Colonel Kerwin is favored as permanent chairman and the University of Wyoming supports the plan as discussions continue across the state
Scouts begin along the frozen Clute and Mattice trail from Cochrane to spot the American naval balloonists who fled Rockaway New York and found refuge at Moose Factory three weeks ago. A relief train will be sent as soon as word arrives on their location.
An old advertisement touts Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets as a one day cure for a cold. The copy stresses authenticity with the signature of 2D W Grove and a street address.
The engagement of Princess Olga, niece of King Constantine of Greece, to William Bateman Leeds faces parental resistance. Princess Anastasia of Greece, formerly Mrs William Leeds and mother to William, opposes any romance with royalty and favors an American upbringing for her son.
Butte Montana based Cliff Blank enship, Spokane club manager, aims to form a six club Pacific International League with Butte Great Falls Helena Spokane and two other cities. R M Stewart of the Canadian Dominion Observatory says solar observations will enable weather forecasts for months ahead within a few years.
Representative Frank Clark of Florida introduces a House bill mandating a one year term in the work house for individuals convicted as slashers. The measure seeks to impose a strict penal option and signals a hard line on violent street offenses.
Dr Edward C Hill analytic chemist testified that morphine was found in a colic remedy used on two infants at Cheyenne Private hospital on November 18 Mrs Schulz charged with poisoning the infants Miss Linn and Mrs Yost nurses also testified Hill described tablets containing morphine and belladonna broken and found in the bottle A vial with a morphine tablet was found among Schulz belongings in the arrest and Mrs Yost admitted giving the medicine to three infants though it was prescribed for one The hearing resumes at 10 this morning
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