William Best Named Captain for Next Year Football
At a High school football meeting William Best was elected captain for next year. Best, a junior, has two years on the team and is popular with players and coaches. Only Best Teidbreder Weisenborn and Hill remain from this year’s regulars. Thanksgiving game will be played with St Francis college.
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William Best
Best
Teidbreder
Weisenborn
Hill
Kirk
St. Francis College
Miss Morgan Sponsors Proposed Carpentier Willard Bout
New York reports sponsors for the proposed ten round no decision boxing bout are Miss Anne Morgan and Miss Elizabeth Marbury. Miss Morgan backs the match to aid the French wounded fund while Miss Marbury supervises the $50,000 proceeds for relief efforts.
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New York
Georges Carpentier
Europe
Jess Willard
Anne Morgan
Elizabeth Marbury
Alorgan
Carpentier
Marbury
France
Miss Marbury
Thiebaud Elected Captain Of Rockport College Team
Jacksonville NL reports Thiebaud of Rockport was elected captain of the Illinois College football team for the 1917 season. Thiebaud is noted as the team’s standout guard and will lead efforts this year.
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Thiebaud
Jacksonville
Oscar Thiebaud
Rockport
Inois College Pig Sre
Joe Stecher Married at Omaha Hotel
Joseph Stecher of Dodge Neb a wrestling champion was married at a hotel in Omaha on Wednesday to Miss Frances Ellers of Scribner Neb The ceremony unites two notable regional figures in sport and community circles with Ellers joining Stecher in his rise from Dodge to national renown in wrestling and public life.
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Joe Stecher
Omaha
Joseph Stecher
Dodge
Neb
Frances Ellers
Scribner
Wichita Players 10 Become Free Agents
W F Gray drafted by Chicago AL club from Wichita Western league was declared a free agent unless signed by Chicago. He claims unpaid salary of 157 32 as Wichita finances forced Western league turnover. Commission notes back salaries for Aug 1 to Sept 5 1916 unpaid and may render all players free agents if not settled within 380 days. Keating’s $1000 Salary claim against Chicago NL was disallowed after transfer to St Joseph and Syracuse.
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Cincinnati
W. F. Gray
Wichita
Chicago
Gray
Zehrung
Walter Keating
Keating
St. Joseph
Syracuse
Ruppert Denies Charge Of Fultz
New York December 7 Jacob Ruppert president of the New York American League baseball club denied Wednesday night that the club used the disability clause to withhold pay from Ray Keating and said Keating was paid in full. Ruppert noted Keating pitched in nine games in the first two months of the 1916 season and that Keating received a salary of 5000 for the season. He added that the Vance case involved Columbus American Association and not the New York Americans.
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New York
Jacob Ruppert
New York American League Baseball Club
Ray Keating
David Fultz
Players’ Fraternity
Keating
Ruppert
Yankees
Vance
New York Americans
Columbus American Association
Golvin Sold to Mobile in Southern League
Walter Golvin, first baseman for Quincy last season, has been sold to Mobile of the Southern League. The move follows the plan to dispose of Quincy players. During the week the Chamber of Commerce will explore retaining the franchise in Quincy.
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Walter Golvin
Quincy
Mobile
Chamber of Commerce
Quincey
PTA Meeting Postponed For Bob Jones Meet
The Parent-Teachers Association at BEX High School postpones Friday’s meeting to Friday evening, December 15, due to the Bob Jones gathering. The session will discuss "The Social Life in the High School" and invites broad parental attendance.
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Bex School
Parent-Teachers’ Association of the
Bob Jones
Boxing repeal drive by regiment athletic association
Chicago December report notes Col John J Garrity leading nine hundred men of the Second Regiment Athletic Association in a campaign to repeal the state boxing ban. He argues boxing is safer and more honorable than wrestling or football and praises boxing as a clean vigorous sport valuable for physical training.
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Chicago
Second Regiment Athletic Association
John J. Garrity
Col. Garrity
Western Golf Body Sets January 20 Meeting
Chicago, Dec 7 A call issued for the Western Golf Association meeting to be held in Chicago January 20. Officers and directors for the next year will be elected and 1917 tournaments awarded. Charles F Thompson of Flossmoor Country Club is nominated for president. The Country Club of Detroit and Midlothian Country Club Chicago contend for the 1917 amateur championship and Olympic Cup.
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Chicago
Medha Lfie Western Golf Association
Charles F. Thompson
Flossmoore Country Club
Association
Country Club of
Detroit
Midlothian Country Club
Yale football captain elected from Clinton Iowa
Art Emus L. Gates of Clinton Iowa was elected captain of the Yale football team for the next season. He has been on the varsity eleven two years as an end and tackle. Gates starred in the Prince and Harvard games. Black, the retiring captain, will be eligible to play next year but declined re-election following Yale tradition.
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New Haven
Conn
Artemus L. Gates
Clinton
Iowa
Yale
Gates
Harvard
Abe Tee
Black
Trotting Association Expels Edward Waud for Races
Edward Waud of Kalamazoo Michigan was expelled by the American Trotting Association for racing a black mare named Friizie Lobek on Wisconsin tracks last season under the name Spirits. He was ordered to surrender for redistribution a sum unspecified in the report.
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Chicago
Edward Waud
Kalamazoo
Mich
American Trotting Association
Amusements at Empire Hippodrome This Week
Saturday December 9 Pat White's Gaiety Girls. Monday December 11 Fair and Warmer. Todays vaudeville pictures include Inside of the White Slave Traffic at Colonial. Princess The Hidden Valley Savoy The Unborn Gem The Unborn Belasco Through the Wall Star Owen Moore in The Kiss Quincy Jackie Saunders in Mamon and Moloch Broken Lives Lonesome Luke in Lonesome Luke and the Mermaids Family Episode 2 Liberty presenting Marie Walcamp.
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Todear
Uipheim
Hidden Valley
Savoy
Belasco
Owen Moore
Quincy
Jackie Saunders
Lonesome Luke
Family
Liberty
Marie Walcamp
Foul driving fines noted in association board verdicts
The association board of appeals reinstated George Vogel of Solon Mills Tl and fined J. F. Casey of St. Joseph Mo two five dollars for foul driving in a meet at McPherson Kas last August. More than 100 cases were disposed of by the board.
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Board of Appeals of the Association
George Vogel
Solon Mills
J. F. Casey
St. Joseph
McPherson
Kas
Good Year for Hunting Season in Quincy
Duck season ends as the best in years for Quincy hunters. Despite fewer total kills than in the distant past, most locals bagged at least a few ducks and some hit the daily limit. Mild weather kept birds moving south, boosting chances to hunt and even combine meat needs with sport.
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Quincy
Harvard to Try Out English Racing Shell
Harvard varsity crew will test an English racing shell for the Yale race next June. An English built boat arrived on the Cambrian, used by Oxford and Cambridge for years. Trials next spring will decide which boat carries the crimson eight at New London.
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Boston
Harvard Varsity
Yale
Cambrian
Oxford
Cambridge University
Harvard
New London
Orpheum opens with Irish singing star and vaudeville acts
William O Clare an Irish song performer headlines the Orpheum show today. He leads a troupe of singers and scenery in a major vaudeville program. Lewis Belmont and Lewis perform musical comedy with clever songs. Adsat Brothers bring a European variety act with tumbling juggling and dance. Latino and Inman also perform in a rural themed number.
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William O'Clare
Chauncey Olcott
Orpheum
Lewis
Belmont
Adsat Brothers
Latino
Inman
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Miss Morgan
FULTZ
Louise Belmont
Lewis, Belmont and Lewis
Western
The
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Gem
Trotting Association
Reowe
Empire-Hippodrome
Pat White
SHELL
Broadway
TOD
Riding With Death
Sally
Billy
Wm. O’clare
Shamrock
Adroit Brothers
Lewis, Belmont
Billy Robinson
la Vine & Inman
Sociological Research Film Corporation
Vice Expose
Concess Theater
Pring Ors
Africa
Baroness DeWitt
Pathe
Florence Rosa
Sean
H. Waldron
Wells Ridg
Fifth and
Maine Sts
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