Ice Hockey Season Promises Strong Amateur League
The article notes promise for a top amateur hockey season with new talent from Canada joining Pittsburg area clubs. It highlights Yale Princeton Harvard and the New York Athletic Club as strong contenders, and credits Pittsburg with developing Canadian stars into top players while emphasizing smoother team play over brute force. It mentions Jimmy Sherriff joining the New York squad and the Amateur Hockey League outlook for a competitive season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton University
New York
Tigers
Yale
Tom Howard
Harvard
Pitsburg
Canada
Pittsburg
Tennsylvania Hockeyites
Stata
Bruce Stuart
Ottawa
Bert Morrison
Jack Winchester
Reddy McMillan
Pitre
Edmonton
Riley Hern
Wanderers
Fred Jake
Billy Baird
Sweltzer
Livinlette
Montreal Stamrocks
Kent
Dominion
Nw York Athletic Club
Enp
Jimmy Sherriff
Crescents
Bowling tournament extended by eighteen days
MM C Wyman secretary of the National Bowling Association announces that the national event scheduled for May in New York will gain an extra week. The extension aims to accommodate spectators and venues as the entry window shifts from May 8 to June 12, with key dates moved for the main competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowlin
MM. C. Wyman
United Tournament Company
New Yokers
National Bowling Association
Quentin
Eithteen Ays
Re Line
Driscoll After Attell for World Featherweight Title
English featherweight Jem Driscoll has earned the right to fight American champion Abe Attell after dominant showings against leading purs. Driscoll impressed experts with superb ring generalship and a punishing finish, claiming his best weight is around 120 pounds though he can match 122. He may refuse to wage the title bout at ringside as Attell insists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jem Driscoll
Feather
England
Abe Attell
Hovors
Driscoll
Ring
Charley Griffen
Atteli
Driscoll Challenges Attell for Featherweight Title
Few Driscoll, champion of England, declares Attell in danger and ready to defend or cede the title. Attell, regarded as one of the cleverest boxers, has held the featherweight crown since Young Marbett defeated McGovern. Driscoll’s forthcoming challenge hinges on Attell’s willingness to weigh 122 pounds at ringside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Driscoll
Featrenwright
England
Attell
Young Marbett
McGovern
Travers plans British amateur bid next May abroad
America's amateur champion Jerome D Travers intends to travel to Britain to compete in the British amateur championship May at the Muttrfield club links. Travers, two time national champion, aims to spark a strong American showing in the star golf event, following notable wins in the New Jersey and metropolitan circuits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Jerome D. Travers
Mutrfield Club
Walter J. Travis
Travers
New Jersey
Fantington Valley
Morris County
Wo Haa
Gara ‘Tis
Montclair
N. 1
Spirit Prize Test Aids Psychic Powers Claim
The Metropolitan Psychical Society in New York offers a $5,000 prize to a medium who can be told the exact number of oranges spilled on a table behind her or him. Dr A J Fox, noted for hypnotic suggestion, treats Miss Emma Monroe and Miss Margaret Marx as possible mediums and recounts experiences of clairvoyance and telepathy during sessions in Manhattan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Box
New York
Metropolitan Psychical Society of
H Notle
Emma Monroe
Margaret Marx
Metropolitan Psychical Society
Reeve
For
Manhattan State Hospital
New York World
McKinley
Secretary Davis
Metropolitan Paychte Society
Misa Margaret Marx
Atisa Emma Monroe
Weat Forty-second Street
Minas Marz
Greenwich
Conn
Miss Monroe
George Rohan
Mina Monroe
Davie
de Fox
Milton Tercentenary Tribute Read At London Meeting
At a London meeting of the British Academy a special session celebrated John Milton’s tercentenary with poems by George Meredith read aloud. The event honored Milton as defender of liberty and a towering figure in English letters, with an oration by Dr A W Ward of Cambridge.
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Meredith
Post
London
British Academy
John Milton
George Meredith
Milton
Wereneta
Hellespont
Ida
Ant
Raya
A.W. Ward
Cambridge
Ambrose Channel 87 Lightship Replaces Old Sandy Hook Vessel
The new lightship Ambrose Channel 87 takes the entrance role at New York Harbor replacing the old Sandy Hook ship, moored in about seventy eight feet with Captain Byron G. Borglund in command. It carries a intermittent white light every fifteen seconds, sounds a twelve inch steam whistle in thick weather, and uses a submerged bell and bell signals in emergencies. The hull is painted yellow with a Gush deck and schooner rig, lacking a bowsprit, and features three straw deckhouses, two straw colored masts, and a yellow hull marking the channelmarking buoy.
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New York Harbor
Sandy Hook
Ambrose Channel 87
Sta- Hon
Byron G. Borglund
Mehthouse Board
Dream of Presidents at Heaven Draws Moral in Court
A Washington police court tale recounted by Walter Wellman describes a dream where St Peter assigns seats to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington as the preacher awaits his testimony. The narrative blends humor with a look at racial and political themes, reflecting national interest from a local scene.
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St. Peter
Found bloody clothing linked to double murder in Wilmington
Police uncovered a bloodstained outfit in a mattress on the bed of Alexander Floreetk, the half brother of Wycentz Floreetk, linked to the December double murder. The youth, kept in custody since the bodies were found on December 18, denies ownership though the coat and trousers fit him.
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Wilmington
Del
Dee
Wycentz Floreetk
Alexander Floreetk
Nec
Taft Never Attends Theaters Except One In Twenty Years
President elect Taft rarely goes to plays. A telegram from Sheppard Friedman asked him to attend Blanche Walsh's show in Augusta for New Year’s Eve. Taft replied he had attended only one theater performance in twenty years to see Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Atlanta
Roosevelt
Taft
Sheppard Friedman
Blanche Walsh
Augusta
Historians Meet Today In Richmond For AHA Gathering
In Richmond Virginia the annual meeting of the American Historical Association opened with members from diverse institutions assembling. Papers on topics of interest to students of American history will be read as part of the association’s efforts to promote historical studies under president George B Adams of Yale University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Historical Association
Richmond
George’. B. Adams
Yale’ University
Ten Men Buried Alive In Birmingham Trench Collapse
Ten workers died in a trench cave-in at a blast furnace plant in Engley Birmingham Alabama on December 29. A mechanical carrier broke a beam causing the trench wall to fail and tons of loosened earth to collapse onto the men eight feet below ground.
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Birmingham
Ala
Engley
Famous Athletes Suspended by Amateur Union
At a meeting of the registration committees of the Amateur Athletic Union six prominent athletes were suspended for professionalism. Named are Melvin W. Sheppard Charles Bacon Harry F. Porter George W Bon hag F G Bellars and J J Lee. Accusations cite accepting or soliciting exorbitant expenses.
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New York
Amateur Athletic Union
Melvin W. Sheppard
Charles Bacon
Harry F. Porter
George W. Bonhag
Irish-American Athletic Club
F. G. Bellars
New York Athletic Club
J. J. Lee
Boston Athletic Association
Bail denied slayers in Carmack murder case
Nashville December 29 Judge Hart refused bail to Colonel Cooper Robin Cooper and John D Sharp charged with the murder of former United States Senator E. B. Carmack. The case involves a high profile political killing that shocked Tennessee and drew national attention. In another item a Philadelphia report notes death by self act reveals a secret marriage between Ernest Jordan and Miss Florence Fryer two weeks prior.
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Refugce
Col. Cooper
Hie Son
John D. Sharp
Nashville, Tenn
Hart Han
Colonel Cooper
Robin Cooper
United States
BE. W. Carmack
Philadelphia
Ernest Jordan
Hinglishman
Florence Fryer
Jordan
Hottentote Warpath Spreads Across Border Skirmishes
Capetown reports the Hottentote and German Southwest Africa tribes on the warpath. They raided cattle posts near the Bechuana land border and killed two Europeans. Seven German soldiers pursued them but were shot down by the Hottentots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hottentote
Capetown
Wealthy Pearl Found in Oyster at Pottaville Oyster Bar
In Pottaville on December 20, Robert Haertzer bit into an oyster and found a flawless $100 pearl about the size of a pea. Local investigators confirm the extraordinary find amid an otherwise ordinary seafood dining episode.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottaville
Robert Haertzer
Draug
Dog Story From a Farmhouse Fable
A farmhouse scene notes Rough the terrier sharing bread and cream with his master at breakfast. He parts three corners of the bread, gives first two to Rough, the third to a hen, then carries the crust to a hen at the gate each morning near the fowl enclosures. The hens arrive. Rough guards them while the favored hen eats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anata
London Spectator
Nine Die In Great Northern Train Collision
Great Falls Mont Dec 29 nine workmen were killed and several injured when a freight train collided with a work train on the Great Northern railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Falls
Mont
Great Northern Railroad
Novel golf feat using one club thrills Montclair club
Jerome Travers, national champion, beat three opponents at Montclair New Jersey with a driving mashie in an eighteen hole match. Travers, who once held a 63 amateur record, finished in seventy seven strokes, winning by two or three holes over the field.
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Seat East
Jerome
Travers
Montclair
N. J
Ate
United States
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