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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1921
Page
2
The Jayhawkers captured the cinder contest at the annual dual meet against Oklahoma in Norman on Saturday. University athletes competed across events with top finishes boosting team momentum for upcoming meets.
Everett Bradley led Kansas with 19 points including a sprint win and broad jump second, while Sandefur set a Valley discus record at 135 feet 6 inches. Oklahoma won five events. UOkla and Kansas rivals scored in the annual track meet at Norman.
Newcomers to the course will face one of the hardest links in the country as the National amateur Championship kicks off at St. Louis Country Club in September. Recent construction aims to “sew up” greens, making roll-ups nearly essential for scoring.
President Hardings Opens Baseball season faces challenges as contestants must drop onto screens with a minimum roll, leaving only three holes unaffected. Penalties expected to add four to five strokes, with new traps and tees to raise difficulty. Local club prepares extensively for the national event, hiring an expert greens keeper and drawing help from two prominent golf architects and USDA officials.
Linewly Neb agent announces first Miscuri Valley Golf tournament to be held at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Drake University and the University sport will send teams to compete for the championship as the new sport expands to Nebraskas campus. A golf club forms and student access to local courses will be available in spring at reduced rates.
National effort aims to make the spring track meet as large as possible with invitations to high schools and schools nationwide announced by Athletic Director A. A. Stagg. Past winners include Mercersburg Academy in 1907 and Citrus High School of Azusa California. Cleveland hosts a $15 000 free for all trot as the feature of the second grand circuit meeting starting Monday at North Randall. Also notes harsher penalties by President Hickey for American Association players and a high school glee club event tonight at the Bowersock.
Haskell Indians open track season against Baker University with Thompson and Porter as top sprinters. Thompson must beat Baker’s Porter after Porter’s 19 point meet at Emporia last week. Field events may decide the meet as Methodist school is stronger in that phase. First event at 2:45 p.m. Coach Frank McDonald comments on close clashes. Baseball game KC vs Baker postponed again due to rain and soggy McCook Field diamond.
Ad Sanutel tours Japan exhibition style. Halifax eyes hosting Canadian amateur swimming championships this summer. Portland to host two day motorcycle race at Nose City Speedway end May. Rocky Kunsons vs Doheny Dundee 10 round bout in Milwaukee April 21. Eighty boxers and wrestlers competed in Pacific Northwest amateur championships at Portland Cre. Do en C. Welty leads National Trotting Association breeding three mares to Dillon Axworthy at 2.10 percent. Anglo American sport program to include golf and rifle events. Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes track and field meets at Harvard Stadium marks fourth annual APA meet. Victoria Vancouver and Yakima Tacoma clubs align for Pacific International League season opener May 3. Puget Sound Kennel Club to stage major Seattle show first week in May. Billy Purteil guides Vancouver in Pacific International League. Brennan vs Sailor Jack Carroll 12 rounder set for Columbus May 9. Southwestern league season opens April 21 with schedule across four cities.
Edward C. Finney, longtime Kansas lawyer and federal official, has been appointed by President Warren G. Harding as assistant secretary of the interior. A native Pennsylvanian who moved to Kansas in 1880, Finney rose from Riverside School in Lawrence to law practice, served as examiner of mineral claims, and held top posts in the Land of Appeals before joining the interior department. He has long been associated with public service and federal legal work.
The piece compares Fay Tincher to Charlie Chaplin, noting her education and stage ambitions. It recalls her Topeka Kansas upbringing and a moment where her parents compromised on her career, mentioning grand opera and her cantabile talents.
Paul Stark Luby of the Mother Church spoke at the Bowerseck theatre in Lawrence on Christian Science. He argued religion must be practical and demonstrate truth now, recounting Mary Baker Eddy’s work and the mental basis of health, urging audiences to resist material senses and align with divine Mind.
Fragmentary text mentions Lawrence and Pound Corner Drug Company with uncertain names and disjoint phrases. The garbled lines refer to feelings about a game or event and stray personal phrases, lacking clear actions or outcomes to summarize.
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