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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1921
Page
2
Tokyo May 14 A government subsidy petition will be introduced to fund the Japanese baseball team headed to Shanghai for the Oriental Olympic games. Education minister pledges support and selection will draw from public champions after a series of preliminary matches in Osaka and Tokyo leading to a final in Tokyo.
Danville defeated Bill Pierre's Pointers 7 to 5 in an exhibition on Welch field marked by timely hitting. Conley Trexler and Mel Murphy led an eighth inning rally with singles, a hit by pitch and two doubles. High Point's McIntosh scored in the sixth as Holt and Waldron contributed key hits.
The Patriots and Capitals split a doubleheader in Greensboro with Raleigh taking the first game 8 to 3 and Greensboro winning the second 4 to 1. Batteries were Ferriss and Brittain for Greensboro, Allen and Spencer for Raleigh in game one, and Higgins and Kearney for Raleigh against O'Quinn and Brittain in game two.
Clancy's Twins defeated the Bulls 10 to 0 in the first game, then the Durhamites surged back to win the nightcap in Winston-Salem on Saturday afternoon.
American and National league results show varied outcomes with teams such as Boston Detroit Cleveland New York Philadelphia Brooklyn St. Louis Cincinnati and Chicago posting differing scores. Detailed box scores are not provided in readable form.
In the latest tallies Mobile leads with a 2 record, Birmingham sits at 1, Chattanooga 4 and Little Rock 3, Memphis 4, Atlanta 6, New Orleans 10 12, and Nashville 3 1. The column highlights regional team performance and upcoming matchups.
Rochester 14 tops Jersey City 2 in a regional tally. Syracuse 3 defeats Reading 11. Buffalo 3 falls to Baltimore 06 in a multi city score report.
Milwaukee 10 Columbia 4 Kansas City 12 Toledo 3 St. Paul 9 Louisville 7 Minneapolis 1 Indianapolis 5.
Richmond 6 Newport News 1 Portsmouth 6 Wilson 12 innings Rocky Mount 3 Suffolk 6.
The 1921 boxing championships in Coblenz determine champions across weight classes with strong representation from Philadelphia and other cities. Quinnan of San Francisco is flyweight champion, Myers of Pittsburgh bantam, Huggins of Davenport Illinois feather, Murray of Philadelphia lightweight, Sandberg welterweight from Philadelphia, Gilstrap also noted among winners.
In Seattle a middleweight competitor Staab appears, Spokane hosts light heavyweight fighter Schaffer, and New Jersey is noted for a heavyweight contender. The fragment situates three weight classes and hometowns without additional results or context.
Five watches marked frozen at the fifth second confirm Charles Paddock's Berkeley 220 yard time of 20.45 seconds set March 26. AAU officials led by Robert S. Weaver will evaluate affidavits, timers, and track conditions before deciding if the world record stands.
The article discusses whether Paddock can supplant the three previous marks of 21.5 seconds set by Barry Weters in 1897 Ralph Craig in 1910 and E J Lippincott in 1912 as Lens suffers wartime destruction and a mobilized man spends savings to help family amid debts.
Paris May 16 Georges Carpentier once ruined and penniless after the war is reported to be worth more than 3,000,000 francs about $200,000 in real money, earned since his fight with Joe Beckett. His property in Lievin is noted as part of the recovery.
Carpentier has been touring Belgium Netherlands and Scandinavia with Dick Smith’s opponent in June 1919 and has earned strong box office. Descamps handles business, with a 40 percent agreement in place.
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