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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1928
Page
20
Army and Stanford meet at Yankee Stadium in a sold out 1 30 p m kickoff. 86 000 seats filled as Army and Stanford bring West Coast craft and East Coast power to a high profile clash with national broadcast plans and corps parades.
Shreveport Byrd Yellow Jackets and Homer Hornets will clash for the north Louisiana football championship in Shreveport. The site was selected by a northern district committee at Minden, with the game to be held at the fairgrounds after strong local support and a previous 7500 attendance at a Legion-sponsored game.
Lake Charles high school will meet Warren Easton high school of New Orleans at Lafayette on December 8 to decide the southern football championship. The winner will face Homer or Shreveport for the state title. The state association ruled the Louisiana south section must play on neutral ground.
The San Francisco resident and former Sacramento figure Ancie Hoffman laments being overlooked in lists of top boxing managers. He recounts promoting George Washington Lee, the bantam Chinaman, spending $1000 on posters and traveling the country to secure matches across 32 states and Cuba, insisting he covered all expenses and earned no cut from Lee’s earnings.
Hoffman recalls Lee as a fearless showman who drew crowds with whirlwind action and built champions. After a costly U S tour Lee sought another chance, with a promoter arranging a bout against Pancho Villa in the Philippines. Ancie voices disagreement over the plan.
Victor Jimmy Reid the Harvard captain won the annual intercollegiate cross country championship held in New York. Bill Cox of Penn State a two time champion finished third.
The piece profiles Pop Warner at Stanford and Howard Jones at Southern California as two coaching masters shaping the final Pacific coast battles against Notre Dame and Army. It notes Notre Dame Army in New York drawing huge crowds and the upcoming Notre Dame–USC and Georgia Tech–Georgia clashes as tests of national gridiron supremacy.
The Hoffmans take their son Georgie Lee to Manila where Pancho gains fame after a performance in the ring. Ancle Hoffman defends the trip's huge cost of at least twenty thousand dollars, noting a long-term deficit but insisting the chance for the Kid was worth it. He cites climate and home cooking as reasons fights failed to crown champions, while Mrs Hoffman's radio interruption ends the tale.
James J. Braddock of Jersey City knocked out Tuffy Griffiths of Sioux City in two rounds at Madison Square Garden. Griffiths, 55 straight wins favorite, was halted after four knockdowns in the second round as Referee McPartland ended the bout. Crowd of 19 000 witnessed the upset in New York.
Detroit reports the undefeated University of Detroit table as it defends a 14 game record today against Georgetown in a key gridiron clash. Georgetown aims to upset the Titans on their home field in Detroit amid strong season form from both teams.
Morgantown report shows County Judge I Grant Lazzelle urging the state legislature to adopt a recommended measure. The text details the judge's position and the legislative response sought, with emphasis on jurisdiction and potential impacts.
A judge notes a penal offense for drivers who give wrong signals, and warns that not ten percent of motorists know the signals set by law. The remark underscores driver ignorance of regulatory signaling requirements.
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