Eagles face potential perfect season in twilight league clash
The Twilight League title race tightens as the undefeated Eagles challenge the Odd Fellows at South Park. If Eagles win, they clinch the championship, backed by pitcher Fay Higgins who has 100 strikeouts in nine games. A three way tie could trigger a playoff to decide the title.
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Young hopefuls rival for Wills Moody title
Forest Hill N Y August 20 The national women's tennis championship is set to be won by one of 16 players none of whom may be old enough to vote The favorites include Sarah Palfrey Betty Nuthall Helen Marlowe and Dorothy Weial. Marlowe surprised Eleanor Goss 5 8 6 in the second round highlighting the fresh talent chasing the title.
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Helen Wills Moody
Sarah Palfrey
Brookline
Mass
Betty Nuthall
England
Helen Marlowe
Los Angeles
Dorothy Weial
Sacramento
Mary Greer
Kansas City
Dorothy Workman
Miss Marlowe
Eleanor Goss
New York
Parliament Cuts National Athletic Funding in France
Paris reports displeasure over French athletic societies failing to win Parliament's interest in sports. Premier Tardieu proposed $1.2 million for national equipment including roads and labs, but the chamber reduced the annual playgrounds and fields fund to 80 thousand dollars for five years.
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Paris
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Tardieu
History Points To Flag For Dodgers Or Chicago
Chicago and Brooklyn Dodgers chase the NL pennant as a long running baseball tradition nears fifty years. Since 1880 one of these two clubs has each decade been NL champion with Chicago winning 1880 1890 1920 and Brooklyn taking 1900 1910 1980.
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Troop 55 Defeats Troop 51 3–2 On KU Diamond
The Boy Scout Troop 55 baseball team edged Troop 51 by 3 runs to 2 at the KU diamond last evening. Troop 51 fielding stood out with sharp plays, but timely hitting and smart baserunning lifted Troop 55. Tonight at 6, Troop 51 faces Troop 53.
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Troop 53
Multiple baseball results across cities with punchy knockouts and outpoints
AP summary of boxing and baseball notes with several KO and outpoint results across cities including Justo Suarez defeating Bruce Flowers in New Rochelle Andy Shanks beating Jack Beautiste in Detroit and Frank Goosby stopping Phil Hardy The Robins lead in the National League hinges on pitching as the pennant race progresses with key figures like Dazzy Vance Babe Ruth and others contributing wins and staff depth noted Though fragments limit full clarity the piece links boxing match outcomes to a broader sports roundup
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Bruce Flowers
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Andy Shanks
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Hack Wilson Seeks Record By Homers vs Klein
Chicago Aug 20 AP Hack Wilson closes in on Chuck Klein's National League home run record. He hit his 42nd homer to right field bleachers, then tied Klein's 43 by sending another ball into the seats as Klein acknowledged the feat with a wave at second base.
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Final Yacht Races Open For America's Cup contenders
Newport August 20 AP Four aspirants begin a final series for the America's Cup. Enterprise led by Harold S Vanderbilt owns best record and mileage in competition. Weetamoc matches firsts with Enterprise and beat time limits. Yankee ranks third. Ten days of trials scheduled as New York Yacht Club may end competition early. One boat will meet Shamrock V off here September 18 with final nomination by month’s end.
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Thomas Lipton
Old Umpiring Bias Fades From Baseball History
Former pitcher Al Demaree recalls the need for umpires to favor the home team for self protection in early baseball. He notes players and umpires accepted road calls as worse, with 1913 mobbing of the Giants in Philadelphia and McGraw nearly harmed, saved by a fan with an umbrella.
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Philadelphia
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John McGraw
Golfers Qualify Today for Western Open Race
Detroit awaiting the Western Open qualifying at the Indian Wood course a rugged 6 806 yard layout. Walter Hagen fired 66 to set the course record and Eddie Kirk Dearborn 67 while Al Espinosa posted 69 and many others close. Entry list shows 175 golfers with 150 to advance after Thursday eighteen holes and Friday five holes then 64 and ties after 36 holes. Morrow Lindsey a nine year old Alexandria La. youth scored two holes in one within two weeks.
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Indianwood
Tommy Armour
America
Walter Hagen
Eddie Kirk
Dearborn
Mich
al Espinosa
Morrow Lindsey
Alexandria
Texans in net meet in Southeast Kansas junior tennis
Independence Kansas hosts first annual Southeast Kansas junior tennis tournament. Fort Worth pair Wilbur Hesse and Hal Surface advanced to semi finals in doubles while Texan Jack Smith and Kenneth Kell Topeka progressed. Kell partnered Maurice Kannady Independence in boys division final.
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Tex
Kansas
Wilbur
Hesse
Hal Surface
Kansas City
Jack Smith
Kenneth Kell
Topeka
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Jack Kell
Maurice Kannady
Polo Feels New Fire as It Breaks Aristocratic Shell
Polo’s popularity rises beyond elite circles with Army and western growth. Texans Cecil Smith and Rube Williams join Californians Eric Pedley and Elmer Boescke in the hunt for a spot on the American Big Four. Meadow Brook opens press wings, new jerseys and programs appear, and Tommy Hitchcock fuels public interest like Ruth and Jones did for baseball and golf.
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Laddie) Sanford
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Bobby Jones
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Conservation advances praised by Seventy First Congress
Willoughby Walling of the Isaak Walton League hails the 71st Congress for larger conservation appropriations and new principles protecting forests parks fisheries and migratory birds. Watling notes the Shipstead Newton Nolan Forest Bill as a major victory defending federal lands water levels and shoreline timber. Also lists national league and American league batting leaders and stats.
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Isaak Walton League
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Seventy First Congress
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Shipstead-Newton-Nolan
Betty Nuthall’s brother to join in American invasion
Jimmy Nuthall, brother of British tennis star Betty Nuthall, will team with his sister in the national mixed doubles tournament at Brookline. This marks their pairing in a major American event and widens their sibling collaboration.
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Associated Press
Jimmy Nuthall
Betty
Brookline
Argentine Boxer Victor Suarez Shatters Flower’s Defense in New Rochelle
Justo Suarez Argentine lightweight scored his third United States win by KOing Bruce Flowers of New Rochelle in the sixth round of a ten round bout at Queensboro stadium. Suarez, weighing 136 1/2 pounds, dropped Flowers with rights in rounds two and three and finished him with a left for the full count. In other action, Wilson tied Chuck Klein for the National League home run record with four in a doubleheader against Philadelphia as Lester Shute was on the mound for the Phillies.
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Bruce Flowers
New Rochelle
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Flowers
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Chuck Klein
Philadelphia
Lester SW
Baseball scores and delays across leagues
A batch of Sunday results shows multiple scores across the American League and other associations. Key lines include New York 3 Chicago 0 after darkness halted a game in the sixteenth, St. Louis 7 Philadelphia 0, Detroit 2 Washington f, Cleveland 7 7 Boston 2 3, and Kansas City 5 1. Other results feature Toledo 6 Minneapolis 2 and Pueblo 9 Topeka 5 with night games in Oklahoma City at Dex Moines and Wichita at Denver.
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British boats head to Long Island for race
Glasgow, AP reports four British yachts will depart Glasgow to compete in the British American Cup races on September 1 in Long Island. Evel Parker’s Fintra and A A Stuart Black’s Coral ship on Transylvania. Felma and Prudence to follow shortly after. Old Master praises Wood in New York as the game’s most improved 18-year-old tennis player, per Big Bill Tilden.
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Evel Parker
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Transylvania
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Bill Tilden
Davis Cup Star Praises Wood After Shields Win
A noted Davis Cup star praised Wood following a win over Frank Shields, who had eliminated Bill Tilden from the Southampton L. L. tournament.
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Frank Shields
Tilden
Southampton, L. L
New Yacht on Pacific Spreads Wings in San Diego
The P. C., a 32 foot yacht designed by Ted Geary, has ventured onto the Pacific with a sail area of 353 square feet. The craft represents a new type in yacht design and marks a notable development in regional maritime activity.
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Coast Tegatta Highlights Newport Boat in Competition
The Pacific Coast Tegatta at Newport Beach lists a boat as a regular entrant. Georgia Tech football will wear large numbers to avoid blending with the ball, affecting Tornado jerseys. An open-match play golf tournament debuts in San Francisco December 4 to 7 with a $7,500 purse. Lawrence Business College fall term opens September 2.
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