Feminine net stars battle for honors at tennis nationals
Forest Hills N Y Aug 19 Three players who have known what it is to be queen of American courts and 61 others who would like to know were set today for the opening of the men s national tennis championships at the West Side Tennis Club Helen Wills Berkeley Calif defending champion has won the title five times Among the 63 players seeking to dethrone her are Mrs Molla Mallory eight times national champion and Mrs May Sutton Bundy Santa Monica title holder in 1904 Miss Wills and Mrs Mallory have had almost a strangle hold on the singles championship ever since 1915
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Tennis: Palfrey Wins Eastern Grass Court Title
Rye N Y Sarah Palfrey of Boston defeats Mary Greef Kansas City to take the eastern grass court singles crown. Also notes hunter and Tilden win the men's doubles final.
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Twenty Trapshooting Titles To Be Decided At Dayton
Dayton Ohio August 19 Twenty national trapshooting titles will be contested for and more than 1 000 000 rounds of ammunition will be sprayed over the traphouses during the 30th annual clay pigeon hunters tourney August 19 26. Grand American handicap championship now held by Isaac Andrews Sparanburg S C is the top tile. More than 850 men and women from nearly every state compete.
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Walker vs Lomski Bout Promises Key Light Heavyweight Clue
New York report notes Mickey Walker aged middleweight king to box Leo Lomski ten rounds at municipal stadium Philadelphia. bout could shape next light heavyweight title. Tommy Loughran expected to face Jack Sharkey in fall heavyweight clash. Chicago card features four ten rounders with Devos Burns Medillauick Sullivan Allen Shea Mastro Stribling Sekura Bertazolla and Dixon among several bouts.
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Knottsville Nin e Defeats Thornton In 7-3 Tilt
Knottsville leaped to a 7-3 victory over Thornton yesterday afternoon as seven runs and five errors boosted Knottsville while Thornton posted three runs and four errors. The lineup lists players from Knottsville and Hug Henrys and notes a canceled engagement with Tunnelton due to a sore arm on King Williams.
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Train Force To Take Over Road Commission Duties
Regular state police troopers will be trained to assume the road commission law enforcement role. Ten of twelve troopers will enter a special course to enforce license laws and monitor overloaded trucks. Training ends with assignments statewide, beginning around September 1, with participants yet to be chosen. The government plans 729000 for 3000 acres in Polk County Texas for the Alabama and Coushatta Indians.
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Cubs Win Tight Game Over Giants at Polo Grounds
Perce Malone pitched five hitter and allowed one run as the Cubs defeated the Giants 1 to 0 at the Polo Grounds. Cuyler doubled and scampered home on sac flies in the seventh for the winning margin. Standings note: Athletics extend a 13 game lead over the Yankees. Browns beat St Louis 4 to 3. Red Sox 5 11 innings over Detroit. Yankees edged Chicago White Sox 3 to 2.
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Chicago Edges New York 1 0 in Yesterday's Results
Sporting brief notes from yesterday show Chicago beat New York 1 to 0, Boston triumphed 10 to Cincinnati, Brooklyn 3 over St. Louis 2, and Philadelphia 5 over Boston in extra innings among other score summaries. Continued standings list clubs like Indianapolis Chicago Pittsburgh and Brooklyn with varied win totals and strikeout leaders.
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Mid-Atlantic League score recap from the region
In a Cumberland win over Fairmont 8 to 2 and Wheeling defeating Jeannette 6 to 1, Wheeling won 1 to 0 in a second game. Clarksburg outscored Scottdale 7 to 1 in the first, then Scottdale 15 to 1 over Clarksburg in the second. Johnstown beat Charleroi 7 to 6 in 12 innings. Upcoming games: Fairmont at Cumberland and Scottdale at Clarksburg.
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Two Chicago Boxers Clash for Feather Title Bout
Chicago boxers Earl Mastro and Eddie Shea meet Friday night in a 10 rounder at the stadium. The bout supports champion Andre Routis and will decide who challenges for the featherweight title.
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Graf Zeppelin Arrives Amid Global Overnight News
Tokyo reports Graf Zeppelin arrives while London records a collision in the North Sea between a Spanish freighter and British warship. Shanghai notes 100000 extra Manchurian troops mobilized. London reports on Ambassador Dawes.
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Faherty's Athletics Win in Loosely Played Game 6 10
Faherty's Athletics won a loosely played game 6 to 5 against the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company team on Saturday afternoon. Hamrick pitched well for the visitors but poor support in the fifth and seventh inning doomed him. Mackey led the visitors with four hits in five at bats. Williams contributed a first appearance at first base for the Athletics with a key double. The game featured a two-run rally in the seventh by the locals and a four-run fourth inning by the visitors.
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Firemen Dismissed After Early Errand Today
Firemen were ousted on an early errand this morning near 100 ny street when a burnt noon meal sparked a kitchen fire at Mrs. J. W. Fortney’s home. Volunteers answered the alarm but suffered only minor damage as they battled flames and smoke while a four year old girl from Texas earned a Carnegie medal for saving a playmate from drowning.
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