Haskell Meet Features Unusual Military Sports Event Draw
The first Haskell National Guard unit gathering featured eight-man pushball on a half field with spectators, a broken collarbone injury to Walter Bernard, mounted wrestling and several races. Captains-elect Eugene Fritz Save Bible Monte Brightman participated as did Bolster. Winners included Wagner team in the mounted events and Alfred Johns in mounted equipment racing, with times listed for multiple contests.
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Walter Bernard
Eugene Fritz
Save Bible
Monte Brightman
Bolster
Winnike
Wagner
Robinson
Watson
LaPointe
J. Peak
Aliman
Sherman
Souseaz
Gourde
Winnie
Peaks
Ni Peake
Welsiity
Hendricks
Boxing Roundup Skirmishes Highlight Hasty Wins
From Philadelphia to Birmingham and New Orleans, bout results spotlight midget Wolast defeating Willie Dav iz, Tony Canzoner knocking out Claudie Wilson, and Mickey Walker defending a world lightweight title by defeating Tony Maruilo.
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The
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Match Ends in Fight Ends in Disorder Here
Minneapolis AP report describes a heavyweight title bout ending in chaos as Ed Lewis defeats Martin Plestina in three sessions. Police protected the ring as Lewis earned the decision with a 3:49 toe hold, while Plestina collapsed unconscious after a jaw swing.
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Minneapolis
Ed "Strangler” Lewis
Martin Plestina
Chita Fo
Lewis
Fred Toneman
Chicago
N Plice
Plestina
Prestina
Army to Play Stanford Cadets on Christmas Coast Test
West Point cadets sanctioned to face Leland Stanford University at Christmas on the Pacific coast. Secretary Davis approves the football game arrangements with Major General William R. Smith, superintendent of the military academy, noting it will be closed all day for Decoration Day and urging community respect.
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Washington
Davis
West Point Cadets
Leland Stanford University
Pacific Coast
William R.smith
Holloway & Jones
Heeney Compared to Fitzsimmons in Boxing Prowess
Former New York Giants pitcher Te By Al Demarée discusses heavyweight Tom Heeney who recently arrived from England. Heeney resembles Bob Fitzsimmons in build yet lacks Fitzsimmons’s decisive punch. He recounts Fitzsimmons’s famous knocks and a tale of him subduing an opponent instantly. Also brief local notices of a street collision involving a Chevrolet and a Dodge, with no injuries, and of Gilbert Clark, 43, who died by suicide in Arkansas City after ten years in sewing teaching.
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al Demarée
New York Giants
Tom ‘Heeney
England
Bob Fitzsimmons
Heeney
Fitz
Tom
Bob
Fitzsimmons
Triadi
Arkansas
Arkansas City
APJ
Gilbert Clark
Government bonus: 4.64 billion in next fiscal year
Washington reports the seventieth congress approved a total of 4,642,293,897.57 for the coming fiscal year to run federal activities. Despite higher outlays, Congress cut taxes by 222,495,000, with deficiences partly funded by an urgent deficit bill. Departmental totals are listed for Agriculture, District of Columbia, Executive, State, Treasury and War, plus deficits and adjustments.
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Washington
Gotter
Congress
Melton
Treasury
Memorial group forms to collect student pledges at university
A permanent memorial committee has been appointed at the university to gather student pledges. It includes faculty, alumni, students, and a board of regents member, meeting at 5 this afternoon to organize. Members named from the men's and women's student councils and faculty and alumni groups are listed. the regents representative remains to be chosen.
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Board of Regents
Charles Haines
Dick Gafford
Gifford Day
Class of 1803 reunion plans discussed at meeting
A committee gathered yesterday to map plans for the 1803 class reunion to be held Sunday afternoon. Members including Mrs Martha Jackman Kuchns and Fred Ellsworth led the session. Another committee met at the university alumni office to coordinate joint reunions for the classes 1904 to 1907. Between 15 and 100 former students from K. U. are expected to attend each event.
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Martha ‘Jackman Kuchs
L. E.havenhill
Fred’ Ellsworth
of. Leavenworth
Theniversity
Crowder-Lake View Farm Bureau Meeting Report
The Crowder-Lake View Farm Bureau held a meeting with Mrs David Perkins on Friday May 18 roll call noted a home gathering theme and focused on kitchen and backyard improvements Mrs Beattie Collins led a design lesson for home furnishings and Mrs David Perkins distributed booklets and cereal samples from Cedar Rapids Town Company Nine members attended including W J Collins Arence Hodson Pearl Matin Thurmann Rothwell Glinda Brune Beattie Collins J M Crowder Nettie Crowder and David Perkins Guests Elizabeth Ranille of Lawrence and Ruth Wilson. The next meeting with Miss Olinda Brune is scheduled for June 1 at 1 30 pm and members are asked to bring furniture arrangement pictures for charts.
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Crowder-Lake View
Farm Bureau
David Perkins
Town
Prezent
Jarence Hodson
Pearl M. Matin
Thurmann
Rothwell
Glinda Brune
Beattie Collins
J. M. Crowder
Nettie Crowder
Elizabeth Ranille
Lawrence
Ruth Wilson
Aigkt
Olinda Brune
Mise de Ta Grimes
Dorothy
Armstrong
Kanwaka
Ard
Ralph
Olman
Noah Hetrick
Barker
Jake Hetrick
Henry Collins
Ternoon
Ida Hodson
Lake View
Lionel Overs
Crowder
Kansas City
James Cowan
Emily
Harlie Armstrong
Dorothy Alice
Lorenz Speicker
Eudora
Dora Grimes
Dorothy Armstrong
Jack Grimes
Local Social Notes From Lawrence and Vicinity
Lawrence and surrounding residents shared visits and Sunday gatherings. Cleo Elder, Beattie Collins, and cousin Beattie Collins were noted visiting. Henry Collins spent Sunday in Prairie Center. Lawrence and Vernon residents stopped by the J M Crowder home. Jack Myers of Lake View and Henry Beuermann joined W L Gollops family for dinner. Elmer Atiney and Kate Williams were among those who called on Perry Thursday evening.
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Bora
Willis
Wesley -Eugene
Mral
Julius
Bellerma E Atternpon
Lawrence
Barr
Gs Oerill
Rehbert
Barker Oracata
J. M. Crowder
Sun Aeantig
Cleo
jEawrence
Beattie Collins
C Calin
Henry Collins
Prairie
Bramble
Yaresate
Jesse Athey
J.M. Crowder
Nettie Crowder
Hursday
Ternoon
Beattie
Gains
Cleo Elder
Allen « Morris
Allen « Morris, Mrs. ‘Kate Williams and Guests | Mrs. George Norwood
Abert
Norwood Vetecampton
Topeka
Mag Noth
Nathan Morris
Amily
Rence Hudson Jaen Lawrence
Vernon
J. M. Stowder
Jack’ Myers
Lake View
Henry Beuermann
W. L. Gollips
Alien Morris
Kate Williams
Perry
Elmer. Atiney
Barker
Iand
Julius Beuermann
Nettie
Crowder
Sidney Mett
David
Perkins
Lake“View
Jack
Grimes
Pearl
Paul
Dora
Sammie
Willie
Wesley Eugeng
Herman Banks
Winter
Allen Morris
Maria Collings
Lawrences
W. [. Collins
Dora Grimes
Beattie ‘Collie
Sunday visits and local social gatherings noted
A long list of residents from Lake View and nearby towns visited family homes and hosted guests across multiple afternoons and evenings. Scheduled calls and short visits included Crowder, Beuermann, Grimes, Hodson, Armstrong, Collins, Mercer, and others with their relatives. In Hutchinson the reform school inmates worked on a new stadium at the state fairgrounds. Parsons produce houses paid dairies and poultry producers with 1090 checks in a single day.
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