High Five to Build New Basketball Team at Seiler’s School
After football, coach Otto Seiler focuses on basketball. Last year’s seniors Hayes Stavrum Jungbluth and Strum are gone, leaving captain Weiss as the regular. Dornbach and several hopeful new players report for the first practice as the squad aims for a strong season and a chance at the state tournament.
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Manila plague controlled says US health chief
The chief of the United States public health service at Manila reported that the plague in the city was entirely under control. Of recent cases three died.
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Manila
Middles' Scrap Woeful Fizzle at Madison Square Garden
New York December 5 The middleweight championship bout between Eddie McGoorty and Mike Gibbons collapsed into a lackluster affair crowding Madison Square Garden. Both fighters racked by fatigue and weight issues failed to engage leaving fans disappointed and managers paying out half the gate receipts. Gibbons suffered a swollen left eye while McGoorty bore a scratched nose and the bout ended without a clear claimant to the title.
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Stanley Ketchel
Eddie McGoorty
Mike Gibbons
Madison Square Garden
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Billy Gibson
Gibbons
Baseball Men To Guide The Teams
Chicago business today Charles A Comiskey president of the White Sox forecast that within six years all American league clubs will be led by experienced baseball men from the players ranks in both offices and on the field He cites Chicago Boston Philadelphia and Washington as examples of teams well managed He denounces bankers millionaires politicians and merchant princes in baseball and says Frank Chance should have become Philadelphia president after Horace Fogel left in the Herrmann case.
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Horace Fogel
League head not asked to resign amid rumors
President McGill of the Denver club denied that Morris ONeil would resign as Western league president. He said rumors of a five to three vote to force resignations are erroneous and there is no likelihood of removal.
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Unburied War Dead Survive Cold Balkan Front
Two thousand corpses lie unburied as of December 5 near Kumanova and Monastir with interment impracticable due to frozen ground. Portable crematory installations have been received from Germany to dispose of the dead.
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Ritchie Demands High Guarantee for Exhibition Fight
New lightweight champion William Ritchie is seeking a $10,000 guarantee for a ten round exhibition with a top opponent after Billy Gibson offered $5,000. Billy Nolan, Ritchie’s manager, rejected the offer and insisted on the higher sum to consider the bout.
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Billy Nolan
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Battling Nelson
Purdy Chosen 1913 Nebraska Football Captain
Leonard N Purdy won unanimous selection as Nebraska Corn Huskers captain for 1913. Purdy a state university engineering janitor has started two seasons at halfback for the team as a senior leader.
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Strum Named To All State High School Eleven
Strum, quarterback for La Crosse, earns end position on the All State team chosen by H Meade Durbrow. Madison Madison Merrill Eau Claire Oshkosh Janesville are among the represented locales. The lineup lists Cramer Cotter Segerson Shields Cheney Wenzel Strum Nelson Edler Simpson Bondi.
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Eau Claire
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Janesville
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Cotter
Segerson
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Bondi
Churchill Announces Major Pay Rise for British Navy
London Dec 5 Winston Churchill announced in the house of commons a roughly 15 percent pay increase for British naval officers and men. The package totals 1 932 365 dollars and marks the first naval pay hike in six decades.
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Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Suffragettes Consider Bomb Throwing in Franchise Bill Debate
London December meeting of militant suffragettes decides to threaten bomb throwing if the new franchise bill does not include equal suffrage. The group warns of drastic action as they push for voting rights.
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London
Packey McFarland to Meet Eddie Murphy in Kenosha Bout
Chicago dispatch reports articles signed today for a ten round bout between Packey McFarland and Eddie Murphy set for December 16 in Kenosha Wisconsin. McFarland returned home from Dayton after a win over Terry of Pittsburg last night, while Murphy plans to leave Boston for Chicago to finish training.
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Fitzgerald Prosecution Rest in $173000 Theft Case
Chicago December 5. The government rested its case against Georg W. Fitzgerald after presenting circumstantial evidence that he stole 173000 dollars from the United States Treasury in Chicago. No direct proof was offered to connect him to the crime.
Unclear Prose on Work and Courage
A short, reflective line emphasizes that only labor creates courage and faith. It notes a boy resents doing tasks his parents permit, implying a tension between effort and parental approval.
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