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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1920
Page
14
A Chicago-based national pocket billiards tournament grows into a $10,000 prize pool with 12 entrants paying $100 each. Preliminary rounds prize totals range from 200 to 1,000. top four advance to finals where the winner earns 1,500 plus 2,400 in salary and exhibition pay. If a contestant wins the prelim and final, total could reach 4,900.
The article notes Jack Dempsey trains on Long Island with light sparring as critics debate whether pulling punches will affect his power. He uses ten mile dash style runs, road work, and rubbing for conditioning, boxing with locals for practice while awaiting a comeback.
A garbled verse pair mocks a strong guard with heavy legs and a husky figure, contrasting piano legs with fragility. The fragment hints at New York critics viewing Carpentier in relation to an American ire and Levinaky, though details are unclear.
Quebec critic J Emile Dion proposes a plan for the Baseball Writers Association to name the daily game star from reports. The idea would choose a national star and then an overall season star based on days started, a method to clarify all star selections, though its adoption is doubtful.
Philadelphia notes Coach Heisman of Penn outlined eight rules for football candidates and required each player to sign an honor pledge to observe the rules.
New Haven Connecticut rowing coach Guy Nickalls announces no varsity eights for fall work at Yale but has organized 25 crews across all classes to develop latent talent and build depth for the program.
A fragment notes that many young people have saved, built a competency, and suggests applying their policy to affairs. The Wyoming Trust and Savings Bank is mentioned as a reference point in the discussion.
Princeton coach Bob Roper picks Harvard in Cambridge as the strongest eastern eleven this year stating the present Harvard squad surpasses the 1915 aggregation.
Gay Joe Guyon, former Car-Hiding star halfback and later Georgia Tech standout, competes against Atlanta in a wrestling match.
Wide openings in Southern Pacific and Reading set the pace at the market open as rails and transport stocks moved, with Southern Pacific trading 114% to 115% and Reading easing to 103 108%, while industrials and other groups showed mixed shifts.
Mercantile Exchange quotations show demand and cables for gree, francs, Belgian francs, guilders, lire, marks and Greece with varied figures. New York exchange on Montreal at 9 16 per cent discount. Government bonds easy and time loans steady with call money strong at 10 high, 9 low.
Wheat and corn prices vary by grade with No. 2 hard wheat around 2.02 dollars in Omaha and 2.10 dollars in Chicago. Oats, rye, barley and seed values shown, with lard and ribs quoted in Chicago trading alongside various yellow and mixed corn varieties.
Syracuse University football legend Marquis Frank Bill Horr, known as Big Bill, remains a strong presence in the program. The 248 pound tackle back in 1908 earned All American honors under Harr, with linemen Joe Alexander Lew Usher and Chris Schlachter also cited. Horr’s athletic career boasts intercollegiate hammer, discus, and shot put titles including world discus records from 1906 to 1908 and 143 feet at peak.
The report lists prices for multiple commodities including flax No. 1 at 2.66 to 2.67, No. 3 corn around 87 to 90 cents, No. 3 oats about 49 cents, rye No. 3 at 1.60 to 1.62, barley at 1.74, cotton sacks at 98 pounds, and bran priced at 32 to 83 dollars. It notes car receipts 319 with year ago 25. It also shows No. 1 Northern cash at 1.98 to 2.0834 and December and March futures around 1.03 and 1.96 respectively.
Copper steady in electrolytic spot and fourth quarter at 14%16. Iron and antimony around $6.25 remain near unchanged. Tin softens to around $39.00 spot with a reported high near $40.25. Lead holds firmer around $6.76 to $7.00.
Cabbage was inserted into the market report with a price around $1.26 per hundredweight. The note mentions dred weight for the transaction.
Receipts about 2 000 head with several lots of fair killing cattle sold from 9 60 to 10 25. Top price for the week 8 10 for cattle returning from feed lots. Good killing stock sold 7 26 7 60 and up to 7 90. Cows 6 00 to 6 75. Sheep and lambs fair. good fat lambs at 1.00, fat lambs 11 75 to 12 00, feeder lambs up to 12 00, freight about 13 25. Some lambs sold to the country 11 95 to 11 60. Other feeders 11 60 to 12 00. Fat ewes scarce and in demand.
Hog prices showed variable demand with good feeders fetching 8 to 6.96 dollars. Top boars reached 14 dollars per head while overall hog receipts were light. Some Potatoes and other stock noted as in demand with price ranges listed for different quality grades.
Denver reports higher prices for butterfat with quotations at 51 cents at stations and 57 to 60 cents direct. The jump reflects strong creamery butter demand and shrinking butterfat supplies while butter grades hold at 57 to 61 cents and packing stock at 42 cents. Egg market unchanged and fresh eggs remain scarce. Meat selling around 65 to 67 cents per pound, fruit and other produce showing varied prices.
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