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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1915
Page
4
Carlisle Indian School may drop football after a disastrous season. Superintendent Lipps hinted at an order to halt fall sports due to regulation concerns and the team’s poor results, amid internal dissatisfaction and strong local reaction to losing. Also notes casino league scores with Alphas and Crescents.
Lieutenant Charles D. Daly U S A will not coach the Army football team next Fall. After three seasons as head coach he sails December 5 from San Francisco to join his command, the First Regiment of Field Artillery, at Schofield Honolulu. Daly was Harvard’s 1900 captain and played for Army two years, with wins over Navy in both. No successor has been selected.
Assistant Attorney General Charles Warren filed a government brief in the U S Supreme Court in reply to the Johnson Willard fight film appeal. The brief maintains the 1912 law banning import of prizefight films for public exhibition is constitutional and applies even if films are kept private by the owner. The Havana fight between Jess Willard and the Negro champion is referenced.
Tech cross country candidates hold nightly practices for Saturday meet with Central Steelton and the Academy. Coaches Hill and Peet cut the roster to nine: Sutch Harmon Deming McGann Sherk Sebourn apkin Hoerner Foltz. Final five to be chosen Thursday evening.
Bethlehem December 1 Harry Herring former professional guard and All American selection was elected coach of Lehigh University basketball team yesterday. He spent sixteen years as a professional and played most recently with Trenton after long stints in New York State.
Jack Dillon of Indianapolis defeated Jim Flynn of Pueblo in a ten round Brooklyn bout. Dillon at 175 pounds outweighed Flynn by eighteen pounds and punished his rival, with Flynn taking a four count in the ninth round after a hard jaw blow.
Rail notice lists schedule and fares for Merchants and Miners Transport Company routes from Baltimore to Florida with multiple daily trains to Harrisburg Chambersburg Carlisle and Dillsburg. Through tickets available Jacksonville Savannah and other points. 7 P M steamer departures Tuesdays and Fridays. meals staterooms wireless and autos carried. booklet available.
Philadelphia reports the 1915 football toll at fifteen, all in high schools or small colleges. Victims include Floyd Rollins aged eleven in Texas practice scrimmage, Bryan Scott of Knox College, and Fred McGough Dickinson Freshman, with multiple skull fractures, neck breaks, and brain hemorrhages across several states.
The Harrisburg Telegraph forms a basketball team with manager Wellington G. Jones and captain Charles W. Thomas. Players include Edmunds Davis Wenonah Academy Edward J Stackpole Jr Yale Gephart Lebanon High Wharton School Chard PRR YMCA League and Mickey Boyd Felton A C Company I. Teams seeking games should contact the manager.
Lebanon Valley coach Guyer issued first basketball call for candidates after football season. Five lettermen attended. promising freshmen include Fulford, Hughes, Peiffer, Seltzer, Buckwalter, Amhrein, and Picard seeking five positions. New York six day bicycle race draws seventeen teams including Grenda Hill and others. four more teams to be selected.
In Kane Pennsylvania Mary 2-year-old daughter of Carmelia Kuttgost of Johnsonburg lies dying at Ridgway Hospital. Her sister Gertrude is at home with a bullet wound in the arm after a 10-year-old brother John fired a rifle by accident. The bullet passed through Gertrude and struck the infant in the forehead.
Eugene Zimmerman reflects on Joseph Keppler Sr once drawing lithographic cartoons for Puck. The portrait notes Keppler as a striking figure with mustache and imperial, and Gillam as tall with scholarly stoop. The piece contrasts Keppler’s aloof office with a warm greeting to visitors.
Pennsylvania's annual deer season opened with ideal conditions and rising hunter numbers. Harrisburgers join clubs across Huntingdon Clearfield Franklin Centre and surrounding counties with many camps from Pine Grove Furnace to Mount Alto. Notable hunters from Harrisburg and nearby areas include David Cadwallader J Calvin Shumberger Harry Whitmeyer Samuel Menser and others listing counties and camps across the state.
The battleship Pennsylvania the largest warship to enter Norfolk was placed in drydock at the Norfolk navy yard after being towed from Newport News by four tugs. A board of naval constructors supervised the docking operation.
The Times reports that German Roman Catholics appealed for Armenians this month. A missions committee from a leading organization sent a petition to the German government. Bank clearings rose last month by 1,424,909.17 to a total of 7,773,489.10 compared with November 1914.
Reports speak of abundant deer in Harrisburg with venison likely to appear on family menus before Christmas. Local hunters have long shaped the season. this year nim rodds are said to have increased. University of Pittsburgh players remain in training, and Cornell has been challenged by Pitt. Willard attracts interest as talks of a Langford bout circulate. Yale football voices back Foster Sanford as coach. Reading High prepares for next season with Leinbach captain and Reed coach. Golf rules discuss giving all clubs a vote in governance.
The Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce advocates automatic sprinkler systems to cut fire risk in congested districts. It cites lower insurance premiums, adds protections for elevators and shafts, and notes firms like Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart and Moorhead Knitting already installed the system.
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