Opening clash of Twilight league championship series
Fans await the Rotary and Odd Fellows as a 6 15 PM start opens a best of three for the first half title. If the Odd Fellows win in straight games, runner up series begin Monday. a three game finish triggers a Friday starter. Lineups list Tucker Reusch Mayer Gray Allen Harmon Dodson Schultz Hermuth for the Odd Fellows and Joe Ireland Weidman Logue Bushey Allen Dehns Wampner Harten for the Rotary with Arndt eligible.
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Frank Reusch
George Mayer
Jack Gray
George Allen
Merton Harmon
Rufus Dodson
Donald Schultz
Paul Hermuth
Tex Rickard Eyes Large Fight Ticket Sale in Chicago
Chicago August 8 AP Texas Rickard in Chicago handles a $7 million ticket sale for the Tunney Dempsey fight with applications already surpassing 1 million beyond the total sales of the prior match. He plans 150000 tickets, predicts no tickets left ten days before the fight, and says scales include 1 50, 30, 25, 20, 19, 10 and 4. He will require 2500 ushers and about 10000 total staff for staging on September 2, with substitutes ready if either fighter cannot appear.
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Tex Rickard
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Yevent
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York
Tunney
Dempsey
Incoming Badger Freshmen Class Impresses Madison
Wisconsin’s incoming freshman class for the Badgers moves to meet registration as many top state and Midwest prep stars join the ranks. The group includes players across football baseball basketball and track, with hopes tied to their soon official enrollment and impact on Big Ten squads.
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Elks Kiwanis to clash in South Park baseball
The Elks and Kiwanis clubs race to second of three games at South Park tomorrow at around six. Maloney and Reed will catch for the Elks, Keeler or Carl and Harmon for the Kiwanis. Elks won the opener 7 to 6. Legion game between Liberty Post and Ottawa Legion postponed to tomorrow due to wet grounds.
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Kiwanis
Maloney
Reed
Good Advice but Hard to Take at Pinehurst Anecdote
A clipped reminiscence recalls a former New York Giants pitcher at Pinehurst before the North and South Open. A golfer, irritated by a caddy's unsolicited tips, cursed and chased the ball after it veered into pines, shouting for the caddy to stay silent and tag along.
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New York Giants
Pinehurst
Dubb
Darkey
Kansas Aggies begin 1927 football squad selection
From a pool of fourteen veterans and fifteen candidates, Coach C. W. Bachman must choose Kansas State Agricultural College's 1927 Aggie varsity. Twelve lettermen were lost to graduation. schedule includes games at Missouri and against Kansas State Teachers at Hays, with several returnees named among the lettermen and a plan to rebuild the squad.
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Kansas
C. W. Bachman
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Bachman
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Columbia
Missouri
Jan
Gran
Tighe
John Smerchck
Herold Stover
Bill Towler
O. Tackivell
G. Fr
Browns reshuffle after injury hit season moves
Phil Ball of the Browns outlined a drastic club shake up after a major blow to the roster. Schulte, the injured star, is expected to help lead the team as a rebuilt machine forms around him. The Browns say four regulars will be cut, with Fritz Schulte likely retained. The club has traded $5,000 cash and three players Bob LaMotte Jennard and Gene Robertson to Milwaukee for the young gardener. The deal closes a chapter for Oto Borchert who died soon after.
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Phil Ball
Schulte
Browns
Helto
Howley
Fritz
Fielder
Milwaukee
Brown
Gardener
Bob LaMotte
Jennard
Gene Robertson
Borchert
Aggie Grid Notes and Season Outlook at Manhattan
Twelve letter men lost to the varsity, ten graduated, two eligible but not returning. Don Springer left half will spend the year on University Afloat. Stadium changes deferred until September. Freshman coach to be chosen Sept 1. Schedule includes Kansas State Teachers, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, and Tulsa at Manhattan with open dates.
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Meredith
S. M. Neels
Kasey Bowman
A. H. Freeman
Jackie
E. G. McBurney
George Baster
D. Welch
J. J. Yeager
J. T. Chapman
J. . White
Sandee V
J. Ryan
Keith Shay
Don Springer
Manhattan
University
Russell Hoffman
Frank Root
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Hays
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Oklahoma Aggies
Despite Loss of Leg Bert Goins Sets Ur Record
Bert Goins a 33 year old life guard in Kansas City recounts saving 884 people from drowning over 18 years. He recalls his hardest rescue in 1914 pulling eight women from the Missouri River after a snagged boat sank.
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Bert Goins
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Fairmount Park Lake
Big Lake
Hoy
Odd Fellows Win Second Half Championship in Twilight League
The Odd Fellows defeated the Flks 19 to 3 to clinch the Junior Twilight league title in the season’s final game. Grey started and won, Mayer relieved, with key hits and stolen bases by Searles Allen and Mayer setting the pace as Odd Fellows led 4-0 and 6-0 in early innings.
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Mayer
Biksi
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Halex
Red Morrigan
Fa Cummings
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Morrison Grey
Elliott
Wild Alten
Maley
Reusch
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Durland
Drouhin Signs Contract With Levine For Paris to New York Flight
Paris Aug 8 AP Charles A Levine and aviator Maurice Drouhin signed a contract setting pay of 100 000 francs for a year from July 7 plus weekly advances. Drouhin will share profits from motion pictures and stories. Funds are secured to his wife if Drouhin is lost and salary continues if flight not begun within three months. If another plane beats Columbia either party may denounce, but Drouhin still gets salary.
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Charles A. Levine
Maurice Drouhin
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Bank of France
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Drowning Ends Career Of West Virginia Instructor
Virgil Hunt a West Virginia University zoology instructor from Le-Royal Kansas was drowned at Cheat Lake in Morgantown yesterday afternoon. His body was recovered in seven feet of water two hours later. Hunt studied at Kansas State Agricultural College in Manhattan in 1923 and served as a student assistant in zoology. The Lawrence game between boosters and Athletics was postponed due to wet grounds and will likely be rescheduled next month.
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Morgantown
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Cheat Lake
Hunt
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Studnt
Lawrence
Boosters
Lawrence Athletics
Legionnaires Set to Sail for Paris Convention Precursors
American Legionnaires begin overseas movement from Hoboken and New York as nine advance sailings depart between August 13 and 27 toward Paris for the September convention. The fleet includes the Leviathan with Pershing aboard and Savage commanding, while Boston is excluded as an embarkation port for Celtic.
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Howard Savage
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Lord Dawson of England Frames U S Prohibition as Warning
Lord Dawson of Penn, physician to King George and the Prince of Wales, told the House of Lords that the United States shows a horrible example of what prohibition can do. He contrasted it with Britain, claiming less drunkenness and warning against similar laws. A Red Cross Manila piece follows.
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Prince of Wales
United States
America
House of Lords
Prohibition Party
McCoy's Tablets Promise Big Weight Gain
An advertisement touts McCoy's Tablets as a cure for thinness promising a manly figure after gaining 10 pounds in three months. It claims a money back guarantee if a user does not gain ten pounds after using four sixty cent boxes or two one dollar boxes and urges readers to ask for McCoy's Tablets at any drug store.
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New Jersey
America
Ady
Toothbrush campaign introduces aid to 20 natives in Bohol
A fragmented report from Bohol describes an early effort to introduce toothbrush use among twenty natives. It notes uncertainty about the program and a goal of reaching five thousand by year end, with a broader campaign planned over the next year.
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