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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1916
Page
12
La Crosse basketball fans may see the Eau Claire quintet in Hixon gymnasium. Layton Gouldin says Sparta is not satisfied with February 2 and 9 dates on the La Crosse schedule. If Sparta backs out, Eau Claire will get a chance with Coach Bell's shooters.
A large Normal School basketball squad was reduced to fifteen players after a week of tryouts led by Coach South. The selected group includes Captain Meinert, Grounds, Hoeppner Weimer, Lyon, Jameson, Hodge, Fagin, Cannon, Benjamin, Winner, Huber, Olson, Roellig and Kulcynski. The coach plans to bar first team players from class fives and will also consider keeping second team players from inter-class contests. The squad was celebrated at a dinner with President Cotton and coaches, featuring remarks by Captain Miller and Captain-elect Kulczynski.
In San Francisco on December 12, promoter Frank Sculer said Ad Santel will try to throw Strangler Lewis on Tuesday night and if successful a bout with Joe Stecher is planned. Sculer also said Stecher has promised to come for a February match and either Santel or Lewis would face him.
Cincinnati report says Jimmy Duffy of Lockport New York defeated Eddie Melzer by knockout in the eighth round Monday night.
Johnny Kilbane defeated Alvin Miller of Lorain in a twelve round match in Youngstown Ohio on Monday night to secure an easy victory.
Art Greiner once a speed demon now a car broker is in a psychiatric hospital with a nervous breakdown. Doctors tie his illness to a 1911 Indianapolis Speedway accident that left him badly injured and his mechanician killed.
Sparta Wisconsin plans a new organized Associated Charities movement with church and community groups to improve aid. A Sparta Chapter Royal Arch Masons meeting will elect officers, confer the degree, and serve a banquet at 6:30. Obits note Mary Dorothy Marvin died of double pneumonia. John Button buried at Mount Hope.
The fifth annual banquet will be held at the Northwestern Hotel on Wednesday December 13 1916 at seven o clock. Members and ladies and friends are invited and urged to buy tickets early. Tickets are sold at Hebbert s Drug Store Young s Drug Store Marvin Dubraks North Side and at the Northwestern Hotel. Bill says don t eat your supper at home we have plenty eats. BANQUET COMMITTER.
Mrs. Charles Roy visited her parents in Winona last week. Emery Jones helps in the Austin Hillier store. Mrs. Harry Stevens of Verden, S. D., is in St. Marys hospital after an operation. George Mansergh and Mr. Summerville of North Bend were guests at the William Hewitt home last week.
The White House reportedly houses the most intricate electrical system in the nation with nearly 170 miles of wires. It supports 3,000 incandescent lights, a private presidential bell and telephone network, burglar and fire alarms, a power system for ventilating fans, and an automatic elevator.
Otto Wallace of Milwaukee will box fifteen rounds with Bob Waugh of Fort Worth in Fort Worth Texas on the night of December 18. Wallace recently stopped Waugh in the third round.
More than 2 000 aged workers have responded to employers seek to counter the scrap heap stereotype. Firms plan to pair older men with younger staff and give them a chance to rejoin the labor force.
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