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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1914
Page
3
The entire stock has been sold to Herman Gold of the Newark Jobbing House who is conducting the gale. Everything will be closed out at 50 cents on the dollar or less with big bargains in women's skirts sweaters fur sets coats dresses gowns hosiery underwear corsets and infant wear. Must vacate soon fixtures for sale.
The New York Yankees posted a season hitting record with twenty two hits in a game against Detroit aided by pitchers Williams Boehler and Cavet. The record list notes nineteen and eighteen hit games by the Athletics and others as part of a historical roundup from 1914 including multiple teams and innings.
The Packer basketball team, well known in the city, has completed road work and a final practice session to face the Mystics on the Lyceum court tomorrow night. The event also features the Chattle and Packer Junior games as a kickoff for the new regime and the revival of local amateur sport.
Oakwood Field Club basketball fans await a potential home game venue at the re opened Opera House now Class A Theatre. Manager Woolley hopes to reschedule canceled dates and bring top upstate teams like the Mystics Belmar Eurekas Crescent Juniors Asbury Park and possibly the B. Y. M. C. A. squad to town for Thursday night contests.
The Red Bank church basketball schedule lists a Wednesday game at the Y M C A between the Episcopalians Reformed and the Presbyterian Grace Methodist. It is the second game in the series.
The New York American League club is sold to Colonel Jacob Ruppert Jr for about $450 600. Ruppert states he will not acquire any interest in the Federal League.
A full slate of Monmouth County Bowling League matches unfolds tonight with all fourteen teams in action. Elkwoods, leading by two games, face A P W Specials while Regnars battle Red Bank Sodies, Long Branch clashes with Eurekas, and other pairings like Alberon versus Crescents and Lakewood versus county seat loom. The Brunswicks travel to North Trond as a feisty tail end comes to challenge, promising a tight, competitive night of bowling.
The Manasquan event postponed due to trap damage from the recent storm will now take place Friday at Red Bank. A coastal delegation of gunners will compete and county club representatives will meet to organize a winter series of shoots, aiming for monthly events.
George T. Stallings will remain manager of the Boston Nationals for at least five years after signing a contract extension four years beyond the upcoming season. The agreement keeps him in charge as the club plans long term leadership and stability next decade. Applegarth Defeats Donaldson in 100 yards professional championship race with a six inch margin amid a side bet of 1000 dollars.
George Stallings, manager of the Boston Nationals champions, declares Macon chosen for Braves 1915 spring training. Players will report in February’s end as the Daily Record advertises.
The United States Golf Association will decide in January at the Waldorf Astoria New York which course will host the national championships. The Detroit Country Club is favored to stage the amateur title, aided by Vardon's praise and Detroit's steadily developing course.
The Meveland American league team trains in San Antonio next spring, using the Athens ground. San Antonio hosts as a training camp for the Detroit Tigers, aiding their pennant run and championship years.
Promoters plan a Mexico near the Texas border bout between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard by next year unless plans go astray. Willard, born in Kansas, is 27. Johnson is about ten years older. Willard stands six feet seven, 200 pounds, with an 85 inch reach and a strong knockout record including eighteen stoppages.
Left handed players are cited as about three per cent of golfers with debate on proficiency versus right handed players. The Giants acquire Ralph Stroud in a draft while rejecting a $10,000 ask, and Bol Steed is signed as a third baseman. Juarez Mexico racecourse opens its sixth winter season amid civil war, with $100,000 expected to be distributed and rising losses in stabling. New York plans a $1.2 million two mile auto speedway at Sheephead Bay to be finished by June 1915, seating 100,000. A St Paul Minneapolis bowling match sets a world record with 3,147 pins.
Timber shingle production rises as large Northwest stumps yield thousands of shingles. One stump supplies about ten thousand shingles, demonstrating rapid utilization of cut timber in regional industry.
A Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt shows Mr Gabb accusing his spouse of debt expansion while she denies creating new obligations. The text shifts to describe Cherry Wood as the preferred backing for metal plates used in magazine lithographs for its stable shaping and smooth workability without splitting.
In a short exchange from the Terre Haute Express a doctor tells Mr Peck that cheerful conversation at meals aids dyspepsia and his condition could improve, though Mr Peck laments that his income prevents dining out.
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