Yale Busy With Indoor Sports In 1917 Season
New Haven Conn Dec 19 Yale has launched its hockey and basketball for 1917 with a week of training. The basketball opener is in New York City against the College of the City of New York, with a Harrisburg January 5 game against a college all star team. Yale's squad includes Charley Taft and Newell Garfield, plus six weeks of camp with Bernie Tommers as coach. The hockey team starts a tactical week, led by Mooney Murray Captain York Bierwirth Armour Jacob and Gould.
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Penn Picks Players For Coast Game With Oregon
The Penn Varsity football team prepared for the New Year’s Day game against the University of Oregon in Pasadena. Coach Folwell led twenty players through signal drills passing work and a mock scrimmage amid an infant blizzard at Franklin Field.
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Independents Schedule Broad and Busy for Spring Season
Manager Ike McCord has arranged a long Harrisburg Independents basketball schedule ending with Easter games. The team will tour away from home and receive strong local promotion. Highlights include games with Vincome, St Malachy American League, Pittston State League, and Eastern League clubs through March with several pending dates.
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Pitt Football Schedule Adds Lehigh West Virginia and Bethany
Pittsburgh announces a revised schedule replacing Navy and Allegheny with Lehigh West Virginia and Bethany College. The slate includes Syracuse at home and Penn State at Pittsburgh with games from September 29 to November 29 across venues in Fairmont Pittsburgh Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
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Williamstown High Wins Easy Basketball Victory
Williamstown High defeated Tower City High 33 to 15 as Thompson, Fickinger and Frantz starred. The lineup lists Shadle, Thompson, Kline, Frantz, Fickinger, Miller, Schaffstalt, Seesholtz with field goals and four goals by Thompson leading the scoring. Carlisle High School announces a new basketball schedule for January through March with games against Oberlin Hershey Chambersburg Camp Hill Waynesboro Albright and Steelton among others.
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Dundee Defeats Fleming In Philadelphia Bout
Johnny Dundee the Italian lightweight scored a clean four to two verdict over Buck Fleming in Olympia. Dundee’s late rally in the final round drove Fleming around the ring as the crowd roared at his speed and power.
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Reading Adds Soccer To Red and Black Sports
Reading High School will add soccer to its promoted sports under the Red and Black. With players already in local clubs, the school expects to field a championship caliber eleven after holidays. Athletic Director Weber will call for candidates and games with out of town teams will be arranged at George Field.
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Duckpin Scores Highlight Last Night in Local Leagues
Solvay Bowling League reports strong turnout at Taylor alleys with Team No. 4 and Team No. 2 posting high scores. Academy and Casino Duckpin Leagues show mixed results with players like Jacoby and Reeser among top finishers across venues Lemoyne New Cumberland and Enola.
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Bill Lange Dying After Ball Park Accident
Bill Lange renowned Chicago National League outfielder of the nineties is dying at his San Francisco home from injuries linked to a line drive collision with a fence. A broken board caused a cut lip and repeated lip blood poisoning, with a recent severe relapse.
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May Cut Baseball Dates Next Year
Philadelphia reports that the baseball schedule may be shortened next season with a 140 game plan favored by Ban Johnson. Officials in both leagues discuss delaying openings to create a more compact season and extend the year later, noting weather and attendance factors.
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Don’t Worry Imitate the Birds Says Health Service
The Public Health Service issues a bulletin advising against worry citing birds and animals as examples. It notes no creature harms its health by excessive anxiety or overprecaution and no dog loses sleep over limited ham bones for winter.
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Wellys Wins By KO Over Frankie Di Melfi In London
Jimmy Wilde Wellys, the flyweight champion of England, knocked out Frankie Di Melfi the Zulu Kid of Brooklyn in the eleventh round of a twenty round bout at London University. Kansas records mention novel coaching ideas. boxes used for practice and isolation drills are described in detail. The Lancaster County Basketball League expands with Elizabethtown Manheim Marietta and Columbia. John Swank of Lancaster serves as president.
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Corner Catcher McLean Gets Another Major League Chance
Corner catcher Larry McLean is slated to catch for the Reds next season through the support of manager Christ Matthewson. The piece notes ownership changes as Dr. Fred N. Tate sells half interest in Reading to George Wiltse, with Eddie Zimmerman possibly guiding Hagerstown in the Blue Ridge League. Football rules discussion in Philadelphia covers season reviews and potential forward pass legislation.
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Riders Behind Old Schedule In Six Day Bicycle Race
The Madison Square Garden six day race sees three teams lose a lap in the twenty fifth hour while eleven tied at 638 miles six laps. EB Quhrt Gello and Spencer Carroll penalized for faulty pickups. Smith Kopsky team laps behind.
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Barnes Leads Bowlers As Montgomery Trails By One Point
Calumet team bowler Barnes tops scoring with 5 636 in 50 games at 188 average while Montgomery of the Electrics trails by one point at 5 612. Nine players exceed 180 average as season high games include 711 by Montgomery and 692 by Barnes with Montgomery also holding a 257 single and 685 season total records. In Brooklyn, Gunboat Smith and Frank Moran fight to a ten round draw with Smith dominating six rounds and Moran surfacing strongest in rounds nine and ten.
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Confessed Forest Fires In Pine Creek District
Frank Holden of Williamsport Pennsylvan ia pled guilty to starting fires that burned over 3000 acres in the Pine Creek State forest reserve. Fire Marshal Thomas G. Ryan says Holden admitted starting fires in twelve spots within hours and that he had earlier tried arson at a school in Cummings township and set fires at his father's barn and a Jersey Shore house.
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Tried to Wreck Lehigh Valley Transit Line
Elias Krause of Hoffmans pled guilty in Allentown to placing ties on Lehigh Valley Transit tracks in Washington township to wreck the midnight limited. Judge C. A. Groman sentenced him to ten years in prison and a $1000 fine for two attempted wreckings driven by an imagined grievance against the company.
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