College football captains named by major universities
The article lists football captains for Yale Princeton Harvard Pennsylvania Cornell Chicago Michigan and Indiana with notes on their playing styles and key strengths. Eddie Dillon Princeton is highlighted as an All American candidate from 1906 and Burr Harvard is praised for line play and punting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Harvard
Pennsylvania
Cernoll
Chicago
Michigan
Yale
R. B. Burch
Z. A. Dillon
F. H. Barr
W. H. Hollenback
Cornell
George Walders
Fullack
W. Steffen
A. W. Sebuls
Cartisie
E. Wasenka
Wear Point
W. C. Philpon
Annapols
Northcroft
Indiana
Paddock
Eddie Dillon
Tad Jones
Burr
Crineon
Hollenback
Tne
Walders
Ithacan
Bureh
Yate
Bulldog
Steffen
Open game gains and player highlights in football previews
The article profiles Cheyenne tribe center Schulz and Michigan standout, noting their size speed and passing ability. It discusses open game advocates, forward passes, and rule changes since 1907 shaping two season play plans. McAleer explains signing Justus to stabilize pitching depth and avoid reputational risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Schulz
Michigan
Ita
Estabshant
Travers Captures National Amateur Golf Title Again
Jerome D. Travers of Montclair New Jersey won the national amateur golf championship for the second year in a row at Garden City New York. He demonstrated top form in the semifinal against Walter J. Travis and reinforced his status as the leading amateur golfer in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Garden City
N. J
Jerome D. Travers
Monelal
Montclair
Mettie
Walter J. Travis
Travers
New Jersey
Baseball figures show 10 000 athletes living on the sport
Organized baseball includes about 4 000 players, with nearly 4 000 more in minor leagues and 300 in two minor leagues plus independent players elsewhere making around 10 000 athletes nationwide who live by baseball. Louis Lellbronner tracks every player from amateur to pro to gauge careers in the game. White Sox to train with lacrosse next season to freshen players before resuming baseball duties in spring under Comiskey guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Min Ming
Louis Lellbronner
Acout
Cincinnati Club
America
Bellbronner
White Sox
Charles A. Comiskey
Chicago Americans
Rowansas
Chicago
Comiskey
Sox
Chicago Lacrosse Stars
Bat Nelson Plans Book on His Life and Profits
Champion Bat Nelson writes a book promising straight facts about his life and prize ring career. He estimates five years of fights and bets grossed 125000 dollars, plus 50000 from theatrical ventures. Nelson, a top drawing card, reportedly earns 1260 dollars weekly plus profit percentages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bat Nelson
Nelson
Cubs Struggle Marked By Player Absences This Season
The Chicago Nationals faced overall misfortune this season with key players sidelined. A Cubs statistician notes Chance and Avera missed thirty games, Sheckard forty games, and Bebulefty several contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cubs
Chicago Nationals
Cub
Chance
Avera
Sheckard
Baseball Scores From Yesterday in the National League
Chicago defeated Pittsburg 5 to 2 to clip the pennant race as a world crowd watched. New York has three games left with Boston and could force a tie if weather or other causes do not cancel games. Standings show Chicago leading with 98 wins and 55 losses, followed by Pittsburg 98–56 and Boston 63–88 with New York 95–55.
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Pittsburg
Chicago
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Coveiski
Jahiveen
Wiltse
Bresneck
Hivobiys Ciroactive
Bouton
Rucker
Dunn
Chappell Bowerman
Cincinnati
Chile
Faulkbach
Fraser
Kling
Moran
Dubec
Campbell, O'Toole
McLean
Bchiel
St. Louis
Maddox
Ludwig
Brows
Welle
Camaiis
Gibson
Bt. Lovie
Ewing
Schiei
Rhodes
Wil. P. Chicago
Cincin
Pitteb'g
N.york
Brookn
Philada
Slouis
Baseball Scores and a Cornell Milestone
A rundown of various baseball games lists scores from Philadelphia Boston Cleveland Detroit and St Louis with pitchers and batters named. A separate item reports blind Brooklyn native William J. Moore entering Cornell as a freshman in arts and sciences, aided by a reader and raised-type materials. A Tennessee case recounts L A Bayless fatally wounding relatives before hanging in his cell, cited as jealousy motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell
Ithaca
William J. Moore
Brooklyn
College of Arts and Sciences
Moore
New York Institute For the Blind
Johnson City
Tenn
Oct
L. A
Five Negroes Drown in Tennessee River Tragedy
A row boat with five black swimmers—three men and two women—capsized in the Tennessee River near Moccasin Bend. All occupants drowned as one woman panicked and attempted to jump, the boat overturned. only one man could swim, the others perished reaching him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee River
Moccasin Bend
Elder bachelor proposers romance humor in old tale
An aging handsome bachelor admits to a young lady he wishes he were twenty years younger. She coyly replies that even then he would be too young for her, ending the exchange with a witty refusal. The piece blends light flirtation with a humorous moral.
Adirondack forest fire nears Nodoneyo after lumber camp siege
A fire in the Adirondacks threatens several homes near Hurricane Lodge and Nodoneyo as lumbermen fight flames that have burned miles of woods. Crews dig trenches, men push to save buildings, and a phonograph sings amid the siege while supplies are carted and evacuees brace for forced moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Hurricane
Adirondacks
Big Crow Mountain
Big Boas
Keene
N. Y
New York Tribune
Mesare
Tool
Warren
Sexton
Harold Walter
Mr. Walter
Hurricane Lodge
Nodoneyo
Bowery
Frello
Jim
Jerry
Noted Feud Leader Tom Cockrill Dies in Breathitt Fight
Tom Cockrill long led the Cockrill faction in the Hargis Cockrill feud in Breathitt County Kentucky. His death ends a major figure in the mountaine feud that began after he killed Ben Wargis in February 1902. He was known as bad Tom for his readiness to duel and leave opponents shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Cockrill
Breathitt
Loulaville
Cockrill
Breathitt County
Kentucky
Tom
Ben Wargis
Hargia Brothers
Jim Cockerill
B.D. Cox
James FB. Marcum
Food Center
Jackson
Ben Hurgly Cocker
Seaskunk and Moving Picture Oddities Reported
A harbor survey notes motor boats chasing the Bandy Hook steamers and earning the epithet Seaskunk from a pilotman. An New York City observer describes a theater blackout revealing inverted street images on the screen like a camera obscura.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Jersey Shore
Men In Blue
Ateamers
Martin Donohue
The
New York Sun
Criminal Horse Snack At Greenwood Lake Station
An old black horse owned by Henry Harper, a hack driver, walked to Edward Bears’s horse at Greenwood Lake station to Montclair, New Jersey. It lifted the other horse’s nose bag and began eating the oats inside. The first horse kept glancing to see if the other would follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Harper
Edward Bears
Greenwood Lake
Montclair
N. J
Dreams of Authora Turned Roilities in 1705 Novel
A fragment discusses a 1705 Leipsle work Der Kluge Maun by Cramer and itsRoentgen like dream sequence. It contrasts prophetic romance with later science showing a skeleton apparition warning of punishment as a science imagined by fiction prefiguring X ray visuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jules Verve
Alrotios
Beenea
Roevtgen
Kaffire Love Letters and Spineless Cactus at Banquet
An odd column compiles snippets from Kaffire love letters describing romantic South Africans with light humor. The piece also notes Santa Rosa chamber of commerce serving Burbank spineless cactus fruit as a dessert at a banquet, marking its public reception.
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Kaffire
Kaffe
Ilice
Burbank
Santa Rosa
Cal
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Penn
Oteffen
Dillion
McAleer
Justus
Jimmy McAleer
Lancaster
Saya McAleer
Obby Burch
Ireomed, Travers
Athletics
Keloge
Frater
Powers
Steele
Burchell
Young
Donohue
Crige
Wood
Criger
Coombs
Washington
Wishop
Kleinow
Whitherup
John
Kingtone Fame
Wilsoe, Rislachngon
Street
Cleveland
Smith
Walsh
Sullivan
Inbucknardt
Rhoades
Bemis
Detroit
Donovan
Schmidt
Powell
Bailey
Spencer
White
Killian
Soges
Petty
Stephens
Berger
Jona
Jerka
Ww. IL
Gaston
Cleveld
Ae Athlatic
Washin
St Louis
BSO
Rene
Adirondack
Phonograph
Ani
Standard Oil Company
R. R
Niagara Falls
Frederick
York
Susquehanna Valley
Buffalo
Geo
W. Boyd
Panndager Teattie Maned “A
A . Ianera' Asammbar
Fiction
FACT
Sanaorm
Abe
Yen
Renault Watcher
Bermise
Ieee
Jas. E. Doll
First National Bank
Pbonva
Besant
Sean Annes
T & Nybody
C. 1. Krem
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