Davis and Elkins Rails With Crack Five For Season
Davis and Elkins college splits its seasoned roster under coach Cam Henderson. Key players include captains Brown and Marstiller, sophomores Peters and Donnahoe, and guards Markowitz Jombart and Warren. Freshmen Woodford and Ellis join a deep, tall lineup aiming to lift the team during a demanding slate.
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Davis and Elkins College
Koghénderfer
Elking High School
Cam” Henderson
Dale Peters
Wly
Falmouth
Indiana
Schehool
Lester “Horse
Washington
Clarksburg
Rey
Rovert
Red
Brown
Calrp Marstiller
Elkins High
Jennings
Vincent Donnahoe
Eikins
Rtlis
Ellis ygsQi
Harold Woodford
Henderson Will Hiya
Robert Markowitz
Glenville’ Normal
Vincent Jombart
Elkins
Newbury High School
John Ijfian
Forkins
Film Industry Gossip and Radio Plans on New Year's Day
A sprawling 1920s-era cinema and radio snippet notes Hollywood trends and star turns. Lloyd B. Yoder and Haverlin will deliver play by play of Pitt Panthers vs Southern California on NBC from New York at 42 30 o clockEST, with Yoder anchoring first and third periods.
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Letty
Charlotte Greenpine
Frank Fay
Texas
New York
Lloyd B. Yoder
National Broadcasting Company
Pacific Coast
Srr Haverlin
KFI
Los Angeles
Pitt Panthers
Southern California
Yoder
Official Averages of National League Prove 1929 Hitters Year
The official NL averages show 1929 as a hitters year. Cubs set a runs batted in record with 900, surpassing Pirates 880 in 1925. Phillies, Pirates, and Giants also posted high totals while Hornsby and Hack Wilson led in key power categories. Wilson drove in 159 runs, and Preacher Traynor was toughest to strike out at seven.
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National League
Cubs
Brian Bell
Associated Press
New York
Chicago Cubs
Pittsburgh Pirates
Phillies
Pirates
Grante
Glants
Polo Grounds
Pete
Rogers Hornsby
Hack Wilson
Tund
Hornsby
Cardinals
Wilson
Melvin Ott
Giants
Jimmy Welsh
Braves
Pre Traynor
Jim Botténley
Carnera to Arrive for Several Bouts on Gunard Line
The Gunard line built an eight foot long accommodation on its steamship Berengaria for Primo Carnera the giant Venetian heavyweight who will arrive in the United States tomorrow for several bouts. Carnera is six ten and weighs 285 pounds. Chicago Loyola hopes to win their 27th straight basketball game tonight with Monte and strong opponents. Western league umpires may travel by auto next season to cut expenses. Benny Leonard plans a southern ice hockey league after relinquishing the lightweight crown with teams in Dallas Fort Worth Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
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Associated Press
Gunard Line
Berengaria
Primo Carnera
Carnera
Springfield
City I
Dale Gear
Dallas
Tex
Benny Leonard
Leonard
Fort Worth
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Panthers Reach Westward Trip End for Rose Bowl Prep
University of Pittsburgh Panthers, undefeated and highly rated, conclude their westward journey today and begin a two day campaign to acclimate for the New Year’s Day Rose Bowl game against USC. Coach Jock Sutherland announces stiff Pasadena practices as Pitt and Trojans both plan workouts and final sessions on their fields and in Pasadena.
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Os Angeles
Krhe University “of
Pittsburgh
Panthers
Pasadena
Trojans
California
Pitt
Jock Sutherland
Howard Jones
Football Stars Battle Fire After Dinner at San Jose
Notre Dame's Jack Cannon and Alabama's Tony Holm, visitors for the East West game, helped fight a garage fire at Paul H. Fretz's home in San Jose. Fire crews with a cat pump drained a pool and extinguished the blaze, estimated at ten thousand dollars.
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San Jose
Cal
Jack Cannon
Notre Dame
Tony Holm
Alabama
San Francisco
Paul H. Fretz
Mare Island Navy Yard
Cannon
Holm
Mountain View
Western All Star Team Holds Last Minute Practice
In San Francisco on December 30, the western all star football squad conducted a final workout at Kezar Stadium before New Year’s Day clash with the east eleven. East squad players rested as coaches Andy Kerr and Dick Hanley, at Palo Alto, judged their stars ready after days of practice. Meanwhile, “brace and bit” burglars prowled San Antonio, Texas, breaking into sites with those tools.
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San Francisco
Kezar Stadium
Andy Kerr
Dick Hanley
Palo Alto
Football Ends Year With Four Big New Year Games
The Associated Press reports a final football day with four major New Year games. Pittsburgh meets Southern California in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena while an eastern team faces an all star western squad in the Shriner's game in San Francisco. Dallas hosts midwest versus southwest teams, and the Southern Conference splits into northern and southern divisions for a key Atlanta matchup.
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Associated Press
University of Pittsburgh
United
Southern California
Pasadena
San Francisco
Dallas
Mid-West
Southwest
Atlanta
Seat Sellout For All Star Grid Game In Dallas
Dallas on New Year’s Day hosts a charity grid game between Southwest and Midwest all star teams with a sellout anticipated. Skies are mild as players shift from two-a-day drills to single workouts today and tomorrow.
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Dallas
Tex
Allstar
Southwest
Midwest
Razor Ends Life In Richmond Rooming House
Richamond Virginia report states E B Hull 42 of Bartow West Virginia was found dead in a rooming house last night with his throat cut by a razor A verdict of death by own action was returned by the city coroner Police traced Hulls suicide to letters found and noted he had been a patient at a sanatorium since November 19 He had checked into the rooming house Saturday night paying for a room and offering no explanation His pockets contained a billfold two letters from his Bartow wife and a small amount of money B Hull general merchandise Bartow Va.
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Richamond
E. B. Hull
Bartow
W. Va
Hull
Sid
B. Hull
General Merchandise
Members of Unique Club Leave For Pike's Peak Climb
Eleven members of the AdAmAan Club depart Colorado Springs for their annual New Year climb of Pike's Peak. This marks the eighth year they trek to the snowy summit to welcome the new year.
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Unique Club
Pike's Peak
Colorado Springs
AdAmAan Club
Fourth Meeting Heads Friday Card At Madison Square Garden
In Their Fourth Match Next Friday New York Dec 20 Maxie Rosenbloom and Leo Lemski set a 10 round heavyweight clash at Madison Square Garden as part of a national boxing schedule. Other bouts feature Dado Garcia in Manila vs. Bobby Garcia 10 rounds at Oakland Fupaites vs Clinveux 10 rounds in Oakland. Belted action includes Billy Kennedy vs St Nicholas Arena bouts and mid ranking welterweight clashes across cities with multiple 10 round main events and regional fighters lining up for passes.
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New York
Maxie Rosenbloom
Leo Lemski
Aberdeen
Wash
Ight
Qeeek
Maldisor Gard
San Francisco
Speedy Dado
Manila
Bobby Garcia
Milwaukee
Billy Wallace
Cleveland
Romans
Cincinnati
Bushy Graham
Uties
N. C
Freddie Miller
Columbus
Mike O'Dowd
Colum
Eddie" Shear
Chicago
Aera Dis Rete
Frankie Cleveland
San. Jose
Calif
Young Corbett
Fresno
Racel Anderson
Sam Jose
Los Angeles
Jack Demare
Joe Kennedy
Hollywood
Tacoma
Wetetr
Dob! Snel
Joe Gilick
Madison Square Garden
George Courtney
Oklahoma
de Banovic
Binghamton
N. Y
New Year Memorial Service for Ex Mountaineers Club
An annual memorial event by a club of ex mountaineers began in 1922 with five charter members. The short service drew invitations to a limited social circle, with plans for a White House gathering and a Marine Band style hotel orchestra providing music for the affair.
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Angya Hreworks Dislay
Mountaineers
White House
Lack of funds halts hard surfacing of state road No. 2
In Williston on December 30 a state road commission official said funds are unavailable to complete hard surfacing of state route No. 2 in the northern panhandle during the 1980 construction program. C P Bemney, bas rman of the commission, explained in a letter to Herschel C Ogden Wheeling publisher and delegation chair that the omission followed the request by the highway to improve the route. The delegation represented Hancock Brooke Ohio Marshall Wetzel Tyler Pleheants and Wood counties.
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Jig Uttleston
State- Road Commission
Hie
Dortherm Panhandle
Tdi
Basrman
Hérsctiel C. Ogden
Wheeling
Hanwock
Brooke
Ohio
Marshall
Wetzel
Tyler
Allan Hoover Plans White House Holiday Dance Tonight
Allan Hoover, youngest son of the President, will host a high point of his holiday fling with a dancing party at the White House tonight in Washington.
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Allan’ Hoover
Washington
Dec
Allan‘ Hoover
White House
Boy Placed With Digman Family in Kasson
Junior McAfee of Webster was arrested on an incorrigibility charge after a grand father’s complaint. Magistrate John L. Wittman ordered the boy placed in the care of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Digman in Eas eon. The case involved insurance agent C. D. Digman seeking to take the boy home. The report notes the boy’s father is dead and references a separate discussion about his guardianship.
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Junior McAfee
Webster
Wport
R. P. Fawcett
Pruntytown
Mary
Elizabeth Digman
Eas Eon
W. Va
John L. Wittman
Jed
C. D. Digman
Hoot Gibson stars in a lively western romance at Opera House
Hoot Gibson appears as a college boy in a fast paced action comedy with a wild west show sequence and a romance with Eugenia Gilbert. The film blends auto stunts ropework and comedy as Gibson pursues a dramatic finale and convinces the leading lady to be herself.
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Hoot Gibson
Will
Norte
Tue ‘ Iesday
Hoot
Ing
Mai-Hater
Eugenia Gilbert
Belig
Overnight News Sees Violent Criminial Incidents Across States
Three members of mim Tunners shot to death by coast guard in Newport. Washington reports coercive threats to ranchers defying the coast guard. A federal prohibition agent shot in California raid. rancher and wife arrested. In Cleveland a bootlegger found shot and stabbed in an auto. two counties hit by ambush, one critically blinded.
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Associated Press
Newport, R. L
Mim Tunners
P Coast Guard
Youtville, Cal
Cleveland
Population in 1928 United States exceeds 119 million
New York The National Bureau of Economic Research estimates show the United States population at least 119,906,000 in 1928, about 14,000,000 more than in 1918. Of the total, some 46,000,000 supported themselves and that rest of the population.
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Associated Press
New York
National
Bureau of Economic Research
United States
State Briefs From Wheeling to Beckley Deaths and Theft
Wheeling veteran Wallace, 89, dies. Weirton two bandits rob chain store, flee with 200. Williamson Mrs Robert Bladwich dies, gas stove explosion at home. Charleston Aditin Ashford, 18, dies after porta ved injury from train. Charleston Harry Laughhorn, 46, dies after car collision. Beckley joint services for Joe Dover Jr and Johnny Thomas, 20, killed in gas explosion at mine near Stotesbury.
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Williamson
Robert Bladwich
Charleston
C. Aditin
J Ashford
Beckley
Joe Dover, Jr
Johny Thomas
Sna
Stotesburry
Deaths New Work-Richard Raton Wilson 62 Banker Turf
Richard Raton Wilson a 62 year old banker and turf figure dies leaving a notable imprint on Hillman College Clinton Michigan where dormitory renovations replace an old wing. He resided in a corner room at Hach Hall and was widely known for his sporting and financial leadership.
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New York
Alfred B. Smith
Hi Avenue
Miami
Willie Bang
Jonn J Raskelb
Richard Raton Wilson
Hillman College
Clinton
Migs
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