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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1912
Page
10
Madison awaits the Badgers basketball start as practice lags with few players in intercollegiate style. Coach Meanwell plans four squads to build depth while facing Purdue Illinois Minnesota Chicago and veteran Jardines this winter. The season opens Saturday night with Ripon.
University of Minnesota begins basketball practice with around forty candidates reporting for drills under Dr. L. J. Cooke. The team gathers in Minneapolis as preparations start for the season.
A Fond du Lac man selects an all-state high school football team featuring players from Oshkosh Fort Atkinson Madison Eau Claire Janesville South Division Milwaukee Waupun and Merrill. Oshkosh places include star quarterback Simpson as captain with Rideout at center and Covey at half.
Philadelphia Dec 3 University of Pennsylvania announces that only squad members who played in the Michigan and Cornell games will be awarded the varsity P. Sixteen men will be honored.
Chicago dominates walks while Cincinnati leads in fewest strikeouts per game. The record list shows clubs and players with high walk totals and low strikeout counts across the season, noting Sheckard and Huggins as patient batters and Evers Doyle and Zimmerman among those fanning infrequently.
Cleveland fighter John Kilbane, featherweight champion, likely to spend next year on the Pacific coast facing top contenders. Promoters in Johnstown accuse him of fraud in a separate suit, yet Tom McCarey of Los Angeles invites Kilbane to fight there, possibly on Washington's Birthday. Kilbane matches Monte Artel in Cleveland tonight, with Young Britt and Otto Koehler in the semi windup. Denning and Gavigan duel in Akron over twelve rounds.
Dr. H. L. Williams of the University of Minnesota called for candidates for the 1913 football team and three good elevens have reported. The Gophers aim to be in tip top form next season after a green year and there is wonder why McAlmon was not named by Walter Camp despite western critics placing him on their teams.
A proverb-like saying notes the irony that women may find knitting brows easier than mending socks. The line uses casual humor to contrast domestic tasks and skill.
Walter Camp picks the Collier’s Weekly all American team with repeaters from Harvard and Yale and lists first second and third elevens. Key players include Butler Wisconsin and Crowther Logan Moyer Thorpe Bacon and Hardage among others.
In St Louis ministers from the fashionable west end pledge to walk the streets at night to be accosted by women. The program, aimed at fighting the social evil, begins tonight with churchmen seeking evidence through encounters.
On December 3 Governor Joseph M. Carey representing Wyoming presented a magnicent silver service to the battleship Wyoming at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The 103 piece set, each piece lined with gold, includes a punch bowl valued around 2500 dollars on the forward deck of the dreadnaught.
Estherville Iowa December 3 Congressman Frank P Woody of the Eleventh district is reported dangerously ill at a hotel after a hard fought re election campaign with pneumonia as the diagnosed cause and his condition described as serious by medical staff.
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