Boxing Show At Olympia Club Steelton Promises Thrills
Fight night at Joe Barrett's Olympia A. C. Steelton draws air of record advance sales and lively bets. Gill meets Cyclone Scott in ten rounds with Scott heavy at 158 160 pounds while Gill weighs about 150. Promoter Joe Conroy and manager Paddy Sylvester back strong undercard with Harrisburg fighters and a Harrisburg boxing crowd expecting decisive action.
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Olympia A. C
Steelton
Philadelphia
Joe Barrett
Boxing Commission
Pennsylvania
Parrett
Gill
Scott Johnny Gill
Cyclone Scott
Boston
Joe Conroy
Conroy
Scott
Jack Britton
Billy Kramer
Battling Kop
K. C. Loughlin
Marty Cross
Jimmy Tighe
Frank Carbone
Steve Latzo
Kid Sheeler
Joe Egan
Young Fisher
K. O. Brennan
Ted Kid Lewis
Johnny Gill
J. E. Cain
Paddy Sylvester
Joe Carson
Lancaster
Cain
Hartisburg
Paddy
Olympia Club
Harrisburg
Tim Droney
Billy Angelo
York
Carson
Freddie Erne
Olympia A.C
Joe Strasser
Eddie Billman
Young Lehmer
Eddie Murray
Willie Lanford
Langford
Sylvester
Strasser
Young Hildebrandt
Young Zimmerman
Hershey
Larger War Saving Securities Sale Planned by Government
Washington reports Treasury plans a bigger sale of War saving securities in 1920 than in 1919 as postwar thrift grows. Since inception two years ago purchases total about 1.1285 billion dollars, much from thrift stamps at a quarter each. The 1920 certificates mirror 1919 terms but are redeemable at the Treasury from the second calendar month after purchase, with payment timing eased for post offices.
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Washington
Treasury
Treasury Savings
Pershing Decorates Dozen Officers At Chicago Ceremony
General John J. Pershing inspected Fort Sheridan hospital then spoke to 6,000 War mothers at the Auditorium. He decorated more than a dozen officers and men with the Distinguished Service Medal. Sergeant Walter Hyatt, who lost a leg in the Argonne, saluted as Pershing recounted the fourigerie of France. Sergeant Henry Topman, 42, a 24 year veteran, received the commander in bed after a lung wound and mustard gas exposure.
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Chicago
John J. Pershing
Fort Sheridan Hospital
Walter Hyatt
Argonne
France
Henry Topman
Topman
Black Jack" Pershing
Philippines
Hick A Thrift Class Elects Officers This Evening
The Hick A Thrift class at Pine Street Presbyterian Church will hold its regular monthly meeting this evening for the annual election of officers. The Hick A Thrifts basketball game against Tarsus on the Boyd Memorial floor is postponed to a later date. The bowling league pauses until after the holidays.
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Hick-A-Thrift
Pine Street Presbyterian Church
Hick- A-Thrifts
Tarsus
Boyd Memorial
St Elizabeth Falls to Harrisburg in Lopsided 52–16 Loss
Harrisburg overwhelms St Elizabeth 52 to 16 despite announced stars Dunleavy and Lawrence not playing. Eddie Wallower leads Independents with seven field goals while Gallagher converts 12 of 23 for St Elizabeth. Next up Williamsport on Christmas night and Vincome of Philadelphia visits next Saturday.
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St. Elizabeth
Philadelphia
Tom Dunleavy
Jack Lawrence
Harrisburg
Quaker City
Washman
Gallagher
Eddie Wallower
Independents
Flo
Kline
Moorehead
Gerdes
Ike McCord
Gordon Ford
Williamsport
Williamsport Five
Vincome Five
Vincome
F.G. A
Wallower
Kling
Ford
Keating
Simendinger
Deltrich
Horace Geisel
Baseball in 1920 will be conducted on pre war basis
The New York Times reports plans for 1920 baseball to revert to prewar conditions with longer training seasons and schedules, higher salaries, and restored minor league player and salary limits. Officials anticipate renewed popularity and new leagues rejoining after wartime restrictions.
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New York Times
Patsy Donovan Scout For Chicago Nationals
Chicago will send a veteran scout to evaluate young players during spring training and inspect college and semi professional teams for future Cubs prospects. Patsy Donovan will gather information to help the Nationals claim promising players when waived later. Rosewood Juniors beat Junior Scrubs 68 to 5 as Roy Blair seeks city games for 14 to 16 year olds.
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Chicago
Chicago Nationals
Patsy Donovan
Cub
Donovan
Rosewood
Scrubs
Roy Blair
Emerald Street
Keller
F. Blair
F. Mathias
F. Graffing
F. Hepperle
E. Fleisher
Miller
G. Coowin
G. Zeigler
G. Kern
G. (Hinkle
Blair
Mathias
Hepperle
Zeigler
Hummel
Mob Seizes Soldier on Train and Shoots Him Dead
A mob of about fifty men stopped a Central of Georgia passenger train at Smithville Georgia and abducted Charles West a colored former soldier. He was taken to a secluded place and shot to death. West had been arrested in Jacksonville Florida on a charge of killing Emmett Brightbill a farmer from Richland Georgia and was being returned to Americus to face the charge. His body was later found hanging in a tree riddled with bullets.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Central of Georgia
Smithville
Charles West
Jacksonville
Fla
Emmett L. Brightbill
Richland
Americus
Priseneys Guard
Harvard Football Party Speeds to Pasadena
Harvard's football squad travels cross country to face Oregon in Pasadena on New Year's Day. The Cambridge party, 45 strong with 35 officials, stops in Chicago and arrives in Oakland before ferrying to San Francisco and then Los Angeles. Coach Fisher says the team seeks victory as an undefeated East representative. The Oregon squad has been training in Pasadena, seen as the stronger foe after their season results.
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Harvard
Pasadena
Calif
Oregon University
Crimson
Harrisburg
Cambridge
Chicago
Princeton
Yale
John Desmond
Robert Sedgwick
Thomas Woods
Arnold Horween
Fiske Brown
Keith, Kane
Percy Steele
William Murray
Richard Humphrey
Edward Casey
Ralph Horween
Morris Phinney
Joseph Ryan
Henry Paxon
Wynant Hubbard
Charles Thorndike
Charles Havemeyer
Winslow Felton
Frank Johnson
Frederic Church
Arthur Hamilton
Nils Nelson
Stanley Burnham
Bob Fisher
Derric Parmenter
Ned Mahan
Paul Withington
Dick Wiggiesworth
Sam Felton
Jimmie Knox
William “Pooch” Donovan
Fred W. Moore
Richard Higgins
Thomas Richards
Mathew Luce
William D. Sullivan
the Globe
Burton Whitman
the Herald
Howard Reynolds
Overland Limited
Nebraska
Wyoming
Utah
Nevada
California
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Oakland
San Francisco
Moore
Palace Hotel
University Club
Los Angeles
Raymond
Oregon
Fisher
University of Oregon
University of Washington
Oregonians
Washington State College
Eriics
Marysville Baseball Association names officers for 1920 season
Marysville Pa December 22 plans for the 1920 season are under way with a full slate of officers from the Dauphin Perry League. J Garfield Eppley was re elected president Frank W Roberts and R N Hench are vice presidents L C Lightner is secretary F W Geib treasurer James H Roberts business manager Owen Kennedy assistant business manager J P Lilly field supervisor R N Cunningham and P L Ellenberger will represent the league. A field manager will be chosen soon Finances appear solid with plans for new uniforms and several minstrel shows under association auspices A junior league team was discussed and a committee led by Owen Kennedy will pursue details.
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Marysville
Marysville Baseball Association
Dauphin- Perry
J. Garfield Eppley
Frank W. Roberts
R. N. Hench
L. C. Lightner
F. W. Geib
Owen Kennedy
Dewey Bure
Edgar Roberts
Pana
Ssans Ae
Internationale committees meet in London to delay February congress
The acting committee of the Internationale met in London with Arthur Henderson presiding. They passed a resolution postponing the proposed February congress until next August due to conditions in various countries.
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Associated Press
London
Committee of the Internationale
Arthur Henderson
Laborite
War Council
Forum draws 700 at Marriahurs Wesley Church Christmas
More than 700 people attended the annual Christmas service of the Forum at Wesley church Forster street Harrisburg. Br Charles Crampton presided and Rev Dr McNeal delivered the address. Mary Anderson sang with Miss Gilbert assisting as Michael Jefferson played violin. Four hundred invited children met Santa Claus who handed out candy and oranges from subscriptions.
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Marriahurs
Wesley Church
Forster Street
Forum
Harrisburg
Charles Crampton
McNeal
Mary Anderson
Philadelphia
Gilbert
Michael Jefferson
Santa Claus
Santa
United States Liquidation Commission Sells War Material Abroad
Edwin B. Parker of Houston announced the United States Liqu liquidation Commission realized 700 900 000 from selling American war material in England France Belgium Italy and Germany. The commission also cleared due claims and expects a full report soon. Material sold abroad fetched over half its cost and much was junk or worn out. ships were unavailable to bring it home.
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New York
America
England
France
Belgium
Italy
Germany
Edwin B. Parker
Houston
Tex
United States Liquidation Commission
Europe
Powhatan
United States
Parker
Lancaster Forms All Lancaster Athletic Club
Lancaster unveils a new sport club led by business leaders and star athletes from the prior season. Bill Jones serves as temporary president of the All Lancaster Athletic Club with Mahlon Ranck as temporary secretary and Perce Smith, F B Kreider, and Donald Mylin on the temporary Executive Committee. The group plans a permanent organization featuring football baseball hockey basketball and possibly soccer and boxing with a goal of matching the recent football team in stature.
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Lancaster
Biks Club
John C. Swank
Lancaster Examiner
All-Lancaster Crew
Biks
Bill Jones
Franklin and Marshall
All-Lancaster
All-Lancaster Athletic Club
Mahlon Ranck
Perce Smith
F. B. Kreider
Donald Mylin
Middletown Christmas School Literary Programs
The Middletown High School Literary Society elected officers and announced a Wednesday Christmas program featuring selections, orchestra, quotations, a Santa Claus origin talk, debates, and solos. The Central Grammar School Society will also present a Wednesday program with songs, debates, questions, a cabinet quiz, and a Gazette reading. The Methodist Church held a morning service collection and Christmas um, with a church program and Sunday School exercises by Presbyterians and Methodists.
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Literary Society of the High School
Carl Bachman
Kathryn Deckard
Dorothy George
Ruth Bortner
Marian Ulrich
Parmelia Rose
Misses Belt
Beachler
George Bergstresser
Santa Claus
Helen Force
Yule Log
Mi Eldred Parthmore
Harold Gilbert
Harry Platt
M. Ulrich
Miss Kershner
Ruth Keener
Messrs
M. Brinser
E. Myers
Gerberich
C. Kennard
Grace Bander
Pearl Cowan
Central Grammar School Literary Society
Christmas Song Society
Karl Grim
Eliazabeth Sload
William Rose
Ruth Brannen
Ellaworth Deihl
Cornelius Shenon
Ellen Beard
Marion Shoop
George Horner
Thelma Snavely
Margaret Derr
Benetta Barrer
Hilda Bachman
Solomon Swartz
Lewis Jacobs
Katheryn Bossier
Eleanor King
Kathryn Ulmer
Kathryn Bossier
Julia Lawrence
Henry Fox
Pauline Boggs
Helen George
James Cunningham
Methodist Church
Paxtors Aid Society
Mary Stife
Martha
Harriet Swartz
James Cunninghim
Presbyterians
Methodist
Col Henry W Hodge Dies Noted Engineer
Col Henry Wilson Hodge former Public Service Commissioner and railway director in the AEF died in New York of heart disease. He helped build bridges and engineered the Singer and Woolworth buildings and other major structures in New York City and in Mexico and South America. He was born in Washington DC. burial will be in Philadelphia.
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Associated Press
New York
Henry Wilson Hodge
Public Service
American Expeditionary Force
Aho
Singer
Woolworth
New York City
Mexico
South America
Hodge
Washington, D. C
Philadelphia
Official Tennis Rankings First Ten Men and Women
The listing shows the top ten men headed by William M Johnston of San Francisco and William T Tilden second in Philadelphia. It also names the top ten women with Mrs George W Wightman of Boston leading, followed by Eleanor Goss and Miss Molla Bjurstedt among others with locations in New York Boston and St Louis.
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William M. Johnston
San Francisco
William T. Tilden
Philadelphia
Ichiya Kumage
New York
Robert Lindley Murray
Niagara Falls
Wallace F. Johnson
Richard Norris Williams
Boston
Roland Roberts
Charles S. Garland
Pittsburgh
Walter T. Hayes
Chicago
Watson M. Washburn
George W. Wightman
Eleanor Goss
Franklin Mallory
Molla Bjurstedt
Marion Zinderstein
Helen Baker
Edward Raymond
Hartsdale
Helen Gilleaudeau
Mamaroneck
N. Y
Marie Wagner
Corinne Gould
St. Louis
Helene Pollak
Right Handers Lead in National League Hitting
In the National League last season 172 players appeared in fifteen or more championship games. Of these 114 were right hand hitters, 47 left hand hitters, and 11 switched sides. Only about 6 percent regularly hit from both sides, with five as regular players: Carey Pirates Hollie Braves Kopf Reds Bancroft Phillies Magee Cubs. The other six were pitchers or substitutes, showing turns at bat are not very common.
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Chicago
Carey
Pirates
Hollie
Braves
Larry Kopf
Reds
Dave Bancroft
Phillies
Lee Magee
Cubs
First Real Cash Offer For Dempsey's Next Fight
Pueblo Colo December 22 A bonafide offer of two hundred fifty thousand dollars for the Dempsey Carpentier fight was wired to Jack Kearns manager of Jack Dempsey by Morris A Penter of Pueblo and Fred Dixon of Colorado Springs representing forty Southern Colorado business men. They followed with a telegram offering to post a certified check for all or part of the sum immediately.
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Pueblo
Col
Jack Kearns
Jack Dempsey
Morris A. Penter
Fred Dixon
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Penter
Dixon
Objection to High Price Ring Battle Plans
Geneva December 22. Pierre de Coubertin, president of the International Olympic Committee, condemns the Dempsey Carpentier boxing bout. He objects to purses he calls immoral financially and suggests funds be used to aid war sufferers.
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Geneva
Pierre de Coubertin
International Olmpic Committee
Jack Dempsey
Georges Carpentier
Baron de Coubertin
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Lman Aeseler
Market Street
Pershing
Hick-A-Thrifts
King Oscar Cigars
J.C. Herman & Co
Harrisburg, Pa
Cage
Committee of
Santa Paus
NEW Sport Club
Athletic Association
Middletown
Henry W. Hodge
Official Tennis
Dempsey
John
John Hays
Smith & Keffer Co., Inc
Strawberry Street
Beetet Werthe Tees
Uae
Atta Lane Mechanical School
Cameron St
Fourteeeth and
Sycamore Sta
Longlife Lumber
United Ice & Coal Co. Lumber Department
Forster and Cowden Streets
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