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Newspaper

Harrisburg Telegraph

Location

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1915

Page

3

Moran's Price For Next Battle

Frank Moran leaves Pittsburgh for Saratoga Springs to train and awaits a potential match with Coffey. Ike Dorgan reports Gibson offered 8000 dollars. Moran wants 12000 plus 40 percent of the house. Ted Lewis plans a light-weighted rest schedule with a slate of bouts through New Year’s.

The Telegraph New York Frank Moran Battler Pittsburgh Frank Saratoga Springs N. Y Francis Ike Dorgan Dorgan Coffey

Shoot Spiked Back

George H. Albright and his son returned from a week long hunt in Franklin County with a spike buck weighing about 120 pounds dressed.

George H. Albright and Son Franklin County

Football Star from Camp Hill Captains Dickinson Eleven

The 1916 Dickinson College football team will be led by captain Myers, a Camp Hill graduate. He has played center for Dickinson for three years and is described as the team’s chosen leader.

Camp Hill Dickinson Myers

Mort Henderson to Meet Ozar in Handicapped Title Clash

Mort Henderson continues tournament play in New York City at the Manhattan Opera House while planning a handicap match next Friday with Jack Ozar the mid dleweight champion at the Orpheum Theater. Ozar may be thrown twice in one hour despite his claimed invincibility. In Annapolis Walter S Brodie is set to coach the naval academy baseball team next spring with Lt. C Gill taking a lead role. In Camp Kilbourn Pa deer and two bears are readied for shipment to Harrisburg as sportsmen Sible and Kilbourn prep the game.

Mort Henderson Jack Ozar Orpheum Theater Manhattan Opera House New York City Jack Charlton Henderson Ozar Steve” Brodie Annapolis Walter Midshipmen Oriole C. ©. Gill Middies Brodie Kilbourn Bodines Harrisburg J. §. Sible James Kilbourn

Ithacans Will Keep Dr Sharpe At Cornell

Ithaca N Y Dec 8 Cornell will not allow Dr Al Sharpe to go to Yale despite any request. The football captain will be elected this week from senior candidates Mueller Anderson Tilley Eckley. Several sophomores Shiverick Gillies Miller may join next fall. Brett expected to succeed Barrett.

Ithaca N. Y Cornell al Sharpe Yale Sharpe Athletic Association Mueller Anderson Tilley Eckley Shiverick Gillies Miller Barrett Cool Shelton Collins Jameson Hoffman Benedict Bard Dixon Brown Ryerson Zander Bretz Brett

Feds Not Yet Sure of New York Grounds Plan Hold Up in City

New York Dec 8 The Federal League has not bought but secured an option on the $1 250 000 ground for a new ball club pending a City Council permit to close streets through the property. A December 23 hearing will decide the action, with possible immediate payment of 4 250 000 and start of grandstand construction. If streets are not closed the option may be dropped and the club homeless. Also reports that organized baseball opposes street closing and a league member visited Harlem to gather owners to appear before the Board of Estimate. The rest notes bowling and scholastic basketball results and standings from local leagues.

New York Federal League Feds Gotham Harlem Board of Estimate

Giants Sign Fordham Star Carroll For Third Base

New York December 8 Frank J Carroll Fordham star third baseman who joined the Giants as a recruit signed a contract to play under McGraw for another year He showed promise at third and was kept with the team all year while a medical student at Fordham Carroll was the last Giants recruit to sign and remain with the club Also mention of Carroll’s Toronto season.

New York Frank J. Carrol Fordham Giants McGraw Carrol Toronto Forster

Athletes Honor Tech High Star at Lebanon Valley meeting

At the Athletic Association of Lebanon Valley College annual meeting Charles Loomis, former Tech High star, was elected president in an unanimous vote. He received strong support and later letters were awarded to multiple Harrisburg and Steelton athletes. The event also named officers including Avon Boltz as secretary and Ross Swartz on the executive committee with several managers and captains listed. L2 letters were given to a long list of scrub players.

Athletic Association of Lebanon Valley College Charles Loomis Tech Loomis Harrisburg Steelton Avon Boltz Ross Swartz Paul Wagner Charles Genil David Fink John At Letters

Rules Remind Interscholastic Players Of Clean Sport

An athletic board at Technical High School aims to enter next year’s track team in all high school events. Candidates will be called early. A local fan asks for receipts and expenditures on last season’s Harrisburg baseball. Interest grows in a showdown over the International League. A Penn authority questions Harvard Yale athletic ties and future independence amid football dominance.

Interscholastic Baseball Association Technical High School Harrisburg Barrow International League Philadelphia Harvard Yale Penn Bil New Haven Wilson Army

Six nurses ill with typhoid at South Mountain Sanatorium

Central Pennsylvania items report six female nurses at the South Mountain Sanatorium Mont Alto ill with typhoid fever. Other notes include a child’s death from pills in Mahanoy City Astland and a fatal coal mining accident in Shenandoah City with a limb lost to an explosion at Hickory Swamp colliery.

Chambersburg South Mountain Mont Alto Mahanoy City Miriam Fred Bushley Astland Shenandoah Enoch Patrowski Shenandoah City Shendindoah Shenandoah Valley Shamokin Felix Feese Hickory Swamp

Swat Winter Flys Warning Prophecy and Plan

A New York Merchants Association warning urges immediate action against winter flies to cut next spring’s population. It stresses catching them now while they are weak and dying, with civic groups planned to join the Harrisburg effort later.

New York Merchants’ Association of New York Civic Club Ama Harrisburg

Tiny relatives to see wedding

Washington reports three tiny relatives of the President will attend the December 18 wedding of the President and Mrs Norman Galt at the White House. Guests include Baby Sayre Baby McAdoo and Baby Josephine Cothran among others as 2500 announcements are ordered for diplomats and officials.

Washington Baby Sayre Baby McAdoo Josephine Cothran Norman Galt White House Francis B. Sayre Anna Wilson Howe Josephine Wilson Cothran Smith New Orleans E. M. Brown Atlanta John A. Wilson Joseph Wilson Miss Wilson Baltimore I. Mouse Saint Thomas Church

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