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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1901
Page
8
The two local high school teams wrap up heavy practice before the big game at 2 30 pm Thursday on Newby Oval. Shortridge faces M T H S with strong crowd anticipation and advance-seat sales signaling the year’s largest turnout. The Manual training school lineup will be announced.
The University of Indianapolis departs Wednesday at 3 30 p m for St Louis for a Thanksgiving game with Washington University. Notre Dame names terms for a postseason game with Indianapolis. Management demands 600 dollars plus expenses guaranteed and rejects a percentage of gate receipts. The team leaves by train for Bloomington Thanksgiving Day at 12 30. Past season receipts total about 70 000 with 50 000 from Harvard and Princeton games.
There was a dead heat at Oakland with Diderot and Dunblane finishing together and money divided. The New Orleans meeting showcases top riding talent including Winkfield Dominick Lyne Coburn Landry and Dale among the stars.
The report describes a vigorous gym workout for the M.C.A. basketball team and a boxing contest in Blackwell's Hall. The pugilistic test featured wind, excitement, and spirited exchanges as participants showcased endurance and technique.
Sam Young and Kid Morgan battled to a four round draw in the initial prelim. Wallace and Pickett dominated against Tom Burton in the first round of the second five round prelim, Burton looked scared as Pickett landed at will. Bell Howard then crushed Alec Rodman and Ira McMahan in successive bouts, leaving Rodman to fall before Howard’s onslaught and McMahan winded after their clash. Two Sergeants set limits on the bouts as athletic exhibitions. Two hundred spectators attended.
Indianapolis sports fans show little interest as Thursday’s Hartford bout looms. McGovern offers 2 to 1 odds with $2,000 bet as Eastern experts favor Terry to win the featherweight title within three rounds. Cincinnati men chatter about heavyweight trouble and Sharkey drives toward a Jeffries match with New York’s Twentieth Century Athletic Club backing the pursuit.
Western league magnates met in St Joseph Missouri Tuesday night to discuss Hickey organizing another league. Van Brant pressed about Hickey’s 1800 dollar salary while he claims the new league would include Indianapolis St Paul Minneapolis Omaha Kansas City Milwaukee and Toledo. F DeHaas Dobinson of St Louis NL club criticized Ban Johnson calling him bluffer pirate and anarchist.
Francis A. Palmer, 89, billionaire banker and philanthropist, vows to cut Susan Lewis Crampton from his will after learning she remarried secretly three years ago. He has long opposed second marriages and may leave his fortune to charity instead.
Hooks for McCulloch report that Noblesville council refused a 50 years franchise to the Union traction company led by George F. McCulloch. The panel says its contract with Central traction suffices. McCulloch already holds franchises in Tipton and Kokomo and plans a line from those cities to Indianapolis via Arcadia Westfield and Carmel.
Bloodhounds and search parties fail to locate Nellie Crowsey believed kidnapped and taken toward the Dismal Swamp. Suspect Wilcox released for lack of evidence as police fear a homicide with possible body sunk in the river.
In Pana Illinois on November 27 Wallace Derringer of Kokomo Indiana and Zola Ransom daughter of a local fruit grower plan marriage on Thanksgiving Day a brief wedding notice noting two individuals and the date and place of the engagement.
London market shows weakness with copper shares under pressure amid uncertainty over copper stock outlook. Gamb attacks consolidation plans for Butte and Boston and Montana with Amalgamated. Lamb petitions chancery court to force Amalgamated directors to testify in merger dissolution suit.
New York publisher Frank A Munsey has acquired the controlling interest in the New York Daily News from Mrs Benjamin Wood and will publish the paper starting Wednesday under Munseys management The deal follows his recent gain of the Washington Times and signals plans to buy additional newspapers nationwide In Columbus Indiana members of the Southern Indiana press association gathered for acession with new officers named President W W Aiken of the Franklin Star and Secretary R E Purcell among others.
Fire-chief Coots said freight cars loading on Meridian street between Georgia and Louisiana blocks access during a blaze. He warned a future fire would trap apparatus and hinder rescue, proposing to relocate cars to allow full street access and consider Kentucky avenue as a loading site.
A Wabash train broke in two on a downgrade near Delphi Indiana on Tuesday night. The second section collided with the first wrecking nine cars. Ora Wise and Albert Hathaway of Garrett were killed while riding in one of the cars.
Marguerite Fagin a poor domestic from Joplin Missouri won a ten thousand dollar damages verdict against William H H Abbott a wealthy Leadville mine owner. She testified Abbott promised to marry her and was the supposed father of her child but he recently married another woman.
Evansville police may gain a new lead from saloon keeper John Weyer who described a young man like a lover of Lena Renner seen with wine outside on the night of the murder. The statement could connect a missing crew link and motive. In Windfall Indiana Mrs Holloway died after a turpentine and camphor mixture exploded while boiling lard.
The Grand presents a standout vaudeville act featuring a real Gatling gun and 1,500 rounds of ammunition in a scene showing Philippine veterans as soldiers. The act delivers crack drill work with a scenic sunrise tableau and a costly production. Murray and Mack headline, leaving Thursday for Put me off at Buffalo, while Empire keeps a strong run with Big sensation company.
The football season ends as Indiana University plans a carnival and fair from December 4 to December 5 with novel attractions, dramatic and vaudeville acts, oriental articles and university souvenirs. Alumni statewide are urged to donate saleable articles by December 1, sent to Mrs. Joseph Swain in Bloomington.
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