High Point High School Nine Sees 30 Plus Baseball Candidates
Over 30 candidates seek berths on the nine as coaches Haislip and Lynch prepare for a strong season. Tryouts cover pitching staff with seven contenders including three southpaws and four right handers, plus positions at catcher first base second base third base and outfield. Practice focuses on infield work batting and scrimmages with several games planned, and student and patron support expected to boost the team.
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High Point High School
South Main Street
Welch Park
Haislip
Lynch
Husky
Ernest Fuqua
Henley
Chilton
Carl Fuqua
Mann
C. Allred
Ruth
Charles Remfrey
Alpheus White
Gray
Preddy
W. Ragan
Wright
Wood
Johnson
Montgomery
White
Sherstop —- Ingram
Garland
G. Ragan
Combs
Hayworth
Rogers
Weedon
Hedrick
Foust
J. Alred
Braswell
Gold
Beck
Remfrey
Ingram
Alred
High Point
Winston-Salem
Durham
Trinity College
Steiner
Hanes Field
Red” Ormand
Wade Lesler
Trinity
Lester
Jack Dunn
Orioles
Harvey Johnson
Birmingham
Neal
Ormand
Dempsey Boxes Eight Rounds In San Francisco Cigar Store Benefit
Jack Dempsey boxed eight rounds in San Francisco to support Monte Attell who is facing eyesight trouble. The world heavyweight champion staged a small exhibition and opened a cigar store to raise gate receipts for Monte Attell, brother of Caesar and Abe Attell, as part of the fundraiser.
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Los Angeles
Jack Dempsey
Monte Attell
Caesar
Abe Attell
Monte
San Francisco
Jack
Greensboro Pure Food Demonstrators Start Work
Miss Phoebe Worth and Miss Corinna Lambert depart High Point for Greensboro to serve as pure food demonstrators. They will display at large Gate City stores and travel daily from their High Point homes. Worth is daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Worth. Lambert resides on North Main Street.
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Phoebe Worth
Corinna Lambert
Greensboro
Gate City
High Point
Miss Worth
Miss Lambert
Joseph Worth
North Main Street
Trinity Claims Second Honors in North Carolina Basketball
Trinity college ends its season with 11 victories and 4 defeats to claim second honors in North Carolina basketball after a 31 to 20 win over State. Captain Simpson led scoring with 214 points, followed by Spikes with 133. Freshmen guards Winters and Carter shown potential, while Brooks and Pennington depart after strong seasons.
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Durham
Trinity College
North Carolina
Trinity
Wake Forest
Newberry
Lenoir
Carolina
Davidson
Lynchburg
U. of Richmond
Guilford
State
Simpson
Spikes
Bullock
Crute
Neal
Carter
Winters
Newhberry
Haynes
Asheville
Tee Js
Atnas
Fon ‘H Barbae
API Br
Baskétiall
Eer Bullock
Siman Copters
Roane
Hayes
Graham
Voore
Earnhardt
W. L. Taylor
Brooks
Pennington
Virginia
Chicago Nationals Have Their First Game Today
Chicago March 5 preliminary training of the Chicago club on Catalina Island advances to a first season game a five inning practice. Cubs plan seven innings by Wednesday with two or three innings for each pitcher on alternate days. Meanwhile the White Sox training quarters at Buie sanatorium in Marlin Texas were damaged by a fire but no impediments to players were lost.
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Chicago
Catalina Island
Grover Cleveland Alexander
Bobby Wallace
Cubs
Marlin
Texas
Buie Sanatorium
White Sox
Clarke Arrested on Federal Indictment at Houston Case
Edward Young Clarke the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested in Atlanta on an indictment from a Houston grand jury charging Mann Act violations. He was released on a $1,000 bond.
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Clarke
Atlanta
Edward Young Clarke
Imperial Wizzard
The
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Federal Grand Jury
Houston
Tex
Vulcanizing and retread service offer
H. P. Wire & Battery Co announces vulcanizing and retreading services at its shop on E. Washington Street. The note invites customers to have tires and related components repaired or retreaded.
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H. P. Wire & Battery Co
E. Washington St
Playing Baseball in Japan How American Pitchers Fooled Jap Batters
An article by Watte Hoyt details how American pitchers on a Japan tour used high fastballs inside and slowing windups to confuse Japanese hitters. It notes batters’ tendency to hit low balls, and describes mixed delivery methods that thwarted Jap batters, with comparisons to local players and the evolution of Japanese baseball.
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Japan
Vordirrarthy Trenties
Joe Bush
Tati
Ualie
Moran predicts rising star for NL rival to Hornsby
Patrick Moran weighs in on Louis Fonseca as a potential Rogers Hornsby in the National League. He notes Fonseca's .3861 average across 81 games last season, touts his mechanics and compares him to Hornsby, Frisch, and Olson while recalling past skeptics of future stars.
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Patrick Moran
Patrick
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Moran
Rogers Hornsby
George Sisler
Tyrus Cobb
Louis Fonseca
Hornsby
Pacific Coast
Rob Russell
Pirates
Casey Stengel
Giants
Jonsen
Fonseca
Reds
Philles
City to Put White Way On Wrenn Street Soon
High Point city council set a regular 8 oclock meeting at City Hall Tuesday night with no special matters. City manager Pickett announced work will start this week to lay White Way on Wrenn Street behind the Sheraton Hotel and add lighting on Main Street.
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Wrenn
High Point
Netty R
Pickett
Tity Nanager
Sheraton
Wiss Sidlin Informs Of Misa Nellie Smith Ill
Friends of Misa Nellie Smith regret to learn she is ill with influenza at her home on East Green Street SureRE.
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Wiss Sidlin
Misa Nellie Smith
East Green Surere
Tomorrow's Japanese Baseball Prospects Impress Coaches
A reader notes that the coming generation of Japanese players shows promise, with several youths already displaying advanced skills and confidence on the field, suggesting they may become world-beaters.
Three Rookies Impress Cardinals in Bradenton Camp
Hal Makin from California University, Eddie Dyer from Houston, and Roscoe Holm from Iowa have shown well at the St. Louis Cardinals Bradenton camp. Dispatched reports say all three likely will be kept. Huberty Pruett has also sharpened with the St. Louis Americans in Mobile.
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ST. Louis
Hal Makin
California University
Eddie Dyer
Rom Houston
Texas
Roscoe Holm
Iowa University
Bradentown
Fla
Cardinals
Huberty Pruett
St. Louis Americans
Mobile
Teams Are Bunched In Six Day Bicycle Race
New York March 5 Fourteen teams are bunched after eight hours of the six day race at Madison Square Garden. They covered 170 miles and six laps. The Fitzsimmons Spence team lost a lap during four sprints. Eight hour record stands at 189 miles and nine laps.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Fitzsimmons- Spence
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Greensboro Pure Food
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High Point Baseball Association
R. B. Terry
High Point, N. C
Methodists
Henry Belk
Hicago Nationals
John W. Dyer
FED
CED
Washington Street
Kid Lewis
Roland Todd
England
Europe
Lewis
Todd
Watte Hoyt
Ences
Billy Evans
NBA
Yilain
Artie Axteht
Nehfy
Eri
Pianeta
Doan
Kk. J. Jones
Tate St
Dean
W. T. Pierce
Tomlinson St
Mr. Pierce
Oan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
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