Channel greats push for honors and glory in race bids
English Channel contenders spark new challenges as Ernst Vierkoetter lowers Gertrude Ederle’s record to 12 hours 43 minutes at Calais. Clemington Carson and Clarabelle Barrett issue separate challenges while Miss Ederle plans exhibitions and a New Jersey home welcome.
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Omers
Strude Ederle
Ernst Vierkoetter
Gerbaker
Verkoetter
Heig
Calais
Dover
Ther
S. Clemington Carson
Missle
Vierkoetter
Clarabelle Barrett
Cherbourg
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Dudley Field Malone
Miss Ederle
Highlands
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New York City
Carson
Cologne
Germany
Frederick Wilhelm Hohenzollern
Last of Camp Robber Gang Is Arrested
Hendersonville awaits news as Haskell Brazell aged 25, said to lead the gang, is seized in a Main Street cafe two years after vowing escape. Federal officers say he completes the roundup of the Camp Jackson wire theft gang once tied to $15000. Deputy Marshal A J Bobolsky made the arrest.
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Haskell Brazell
Camp Jackson
South Carolina
Brazell
A. J. Bobolsky
United States
Consolidated Stores Corporation
North Main Street
East Washington Street
High Point
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Main St
Washington St
Clarence Saunders
Cash
Ten Rounds With Jack Dempsey
A journalist asks Dempsey about his hardest fight and the champ usually claims all bouts were hard. He then recalls an exception, naming Johnny Ludenberg as a notably tough opponent. The passage captures the ring talk and Dempsey’s candid style.
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Jack Dempsey
Johnny Ludenberg
Johnny
Dempsey
Mississippi
Jess Willard
Frank Moran
Dempsey Recalls 1915 Fight With Lydenberg
In 1915 Johnny Lydenberg challenged champion Dempsey in a brutal bout. Dempsey recalls being knocked down multiple times, then finding a second wind in the later rounds as Lydenberg fought with raw power before fading.
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Dempsey
Lydenberg
Sundenberg
New Girl Wins Film Part in Paramount Picture
Agnes Griffith, winner of a New York Daily News contest, earns a role in Paramount's Sinclair Lewis adaptation A Social Celebrity. She debuts opposite Adolphe Menjou at the Long Island studio, with Chester Conklin Louise Brooks Elsie Lawson and Freeman Wood in supporting parts.
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Agnes Griffith
New York Daily News
Paramount
Sinclair Lewis
New York
Adolphe Menjou
Mal St. Clair
Long Island
Chester Conklin
Louise Brooks
Elsie Lawson
Freeman Wood
Miss Griffith
Menjon
Thomas Meighan
Lois Wilson
Richard Dix
Lila Lee
Salisbury Colonials top Patriots in Greensboro opener
Salisbury Colonials beat the Patriots 11 to 5 as Harris allowed nine errors behind muffed support. Moose Marshall homered in the ninth and Jimmy Teague added a centerfield homer with two on.
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Patriots
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Goodhmen
Jinx Harris
Applegate
Moose Marshall
Jimmy Teague
Jim Turner
Texas
Besse
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Surface
Thrasher
Engle
Correll
Ray
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