Kansas City Fight Night Headlines Major Card
August 19 AP report outlines a 10 round bout headlined by Joe Sekyra of Dayton Ohio facing W L Stribling of Macon Georgia in Kansas City. Walter Bates 3rd man will officiate after a Missouri Boxing Commission meeting. Weigh-ins set for 3 pm with Stribling expected to carry a seven to eight pound edge.
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Air Service Reserve Officers Association
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Missouri Boxing Commission
Gabe
Kaufman
Blues Hold Big Lead In Association Race
Kansas City Blues, leading the American Association standings, held a 1 game edge over St. Paul as they prepared for a four game set in Louisville. They beat Indianapolis while St. Paul lost a doubleheader to Columbus. Minneapolis dropped a pair to Toledo and slipped a game behind. After Louisville, Kansas City hosts Minnesota and St. Paul for a week.
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Toledo
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di Moines
Divot Diggings at the Club Course
Golf notes trumpet bent greens on hole three for a week or ten days with two temporary greens. Regulars Bat Bullock and Prof Sterling appear, Pink Lupton hosts penitentiary officials, and lady golfers show improving scores. Bridge crowds grow. Mrs. Green plans clubhouse improvements.
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Pink Lupton
Pink
Kansas City to Philadelphia rail line detail mismatch
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Kansas City and Philadelphia with scattered city names and a stray rail reference. Key facts and dates are unreadable, rendering a minimal item about transport routes with no clear outcome or actors. No coherent event to summarize beyond listing places.
Malone Strikes Out 112 as Cubs Edge Giants 1-0
Chicago August 19. Malone, the Cubs right hander, fanned seven Giants to lift his season total to 112, fifteen more than Dazzy Vance who had ruled the National League since 1921. The victory tightens Cubs bid to end Brooklyn's strikeout supremacy.
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Pasa Vance
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Giants
Cubs
Dazzy Vance
Vanes
Burleigh Grins
Pittsburch
Pirate
Chicago
Wills Heads Field at Women’s National Tennis Open
The opening of the Women’s National Championships at West Side is led by defending champion Helen Wills of Berkeley. Seventeen her top rivals include Molla Mallory and May Sutton Bundy, with many challengers from abroad like Betty Nuthall and Phoebe Watson. Semifinal prospects hint at Wills versus Nuthall and Jacobs versus Watson.
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N. Y
West Side Tennis Club
Helen Wills
Berkeley
Calif
Molla Mallory
May Sutton Bundy
Santa Monica
Miss Wills
Malylory
Phoebe Watson
England
Helen Jacobs
United States
Hold Boxer After Bout With Police in Hotel
Indianapolis, Aug 19. Chuck Wiggins known as the hoosier playboy fought with a large part of the city police after a boxing bout. He struck a police car and knocked down an officer in a hotel lobby, was corned and subdued after an emergency squad arrived. He faced multiple charges and may miss his ten round bout with Al Friedman in Boston.
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Boston
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Mickey Walker to Tang le With Lomaki in Philadelphia Tonight
Philadelphia tonight features Mickey Walker the world middleweight king in a ten round bout with Leo Lomaki from Aberdeen Washington. The bout has no title implications but could influence the next light heavyweight champion. Lemski and Stribling among noted heavyweights also in action in various cities.
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Jack Sharkey
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Lemski
W. L. (Young) Stribling
Jimmy Maloney
Boston
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Stribling
Joe Sekura
Dayton
Maroney
Ricardo Bertazella
Italy
Bravesfield
Babe Hunt
Ponca City
Okla
George Cook
Australia
Fort
Polo
Lou Gehrig and slumps linked to hits and meals
A 1913 column recalls ball players punishing themselves after defeats. Lou Gehrig phones his mother after a recent slump, then snaps out of it with a decisive double. The piece notes manager Griffith’s 100000 offer for Ty Cobb sixteen years earlier.
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AL Demaree
New York Giants
Nap ‘Bajoie
Fred Toney
Eppa Rixey
Game
Lou Gehrig
Lou
Griffith
Washington
Tyrus Cobb
Local Soldiers Shine In Camp Competition
Lawrence national guardsmen displayed strong performances at Camp Whiteside Ft. Riley last Friday night in wrestling and boxing events. Second Lieutenant Leo W Shannon won the 159 pound wrestling bout by defeating Hush Mallahan of Troop E, with William Alexander among competitors.
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Lawrence
Boxing notes from a military club card
Eugene Lash outboxed by Company D opponent at 129 pounds for a decision. Lester Oliver D knocked out Carl Rich of Troop E in round three. Albert Wyatt of the 114th Cavalry outboxed Haymond Redmond of Company B for a decision. Tom Noki of the 114th Cavalry lost a decision to H. O. Tipton of Company B.
Deep Sea Life Study Plan From Smithsonian Scientist
Washington AP Dr. Austin H. Clark outlines a plan to enrich deep sea knowledge by saving creatures clinging to trans oceanic cables during repairs. Cable-repair crews would hand specimens to scientists, continuing cooperative work with British ships and the British Museum for labeling and study.
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Austin H. Clark
Smithsonian
British Museum
Warner and Paramount to merge in secret details kept
The Los Angeles Examiner reports a merger between Warner Brothers and Paramount Famous Lasky may close within a week. Jack Warner says talks in New York will determine final papers and notes the union would unite about 2,400 theaters, including 2,000 tied to Publix and Paramount and 400 under Warner Brothers. An aside mentions the U S S Concord at Astoria, Oregon, with a junkman and acetylene torch.
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The
Examiner Today
Warner Brothers Motions Picture Corporation
Paramount-Famous-Lasky
Jack Li Warner
West Coast
Warner
New York
Newy York
Publix
Paramount
Warner Brothers
Allen to Leave Kansas for Washington After Recess
Senator Allen plans to depart Wichita about September 1 for Washington after the summer recess. Since adjournment of the special session he has spent much of his time in Kansas giving speeches across the state, including events in Canton Lola Independence Lebo and Wichita venues with Kiwanis Rotary and Rotary clubs.
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Kiwanis
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Independence Rotarians
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Lebo
Death House Convict Labor at Santa Fe Penitentiary
Convict labor at the state penitentiary in Santa Fe is reported as part of a program supplying equipment and support for a death house. The AP dispatch notes ongoing use of inmate labor in constructing and maintaining execution facilities and related infrastructure.
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N. M
State Penitentiary
Death House and Electric Chair Move Forward
Warden Pat Dugan uses convict labor and penitentiary brick plant profits to fund a Decree of the Legislature replacing hanging with electrocution. No appropriation was made, so efforts proceed to implement the new law. A Carnegie Medal is sought for a McAllen Texas four-year-old who saved a playmate from drowning.
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