Isles Darcy on Way to America
Australian fighter Les Darcy is reported bound for the United States amid controversy and war era disruptions. The piece recalls Bob Fitzsimmons journey, comparing their rise, noting Darcy’s victories and defeats against top middleweights and hinting at a pending arrival to face new challengers.
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Les Darcy
George Chip
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Bob Fitzsimmons
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Snowy Baker
Jack Dempsey
Bob
Billy McCarthy
San Francisco
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Riders Gain Lap in Six Day Bicycle Race at Madison Square Garden
Oscar Egg and Emil Dupuy won the 24th annual six day bicycle race in New York, finishing with a gained lap and 49 points to top Root and Madden who took second. McNamara and Spears were third, Kaiser and Cameron fourth, Hill and Drebach fifth, DeBaetes and Walthour sixth as the field rode 2,625 miles and four laps.
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Dupuy
Hil
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Bethlehem National Champions Beat Chicago Picks 2 1
Bethlehem Pa national champions defeated a Chicago selects team 2 1 in a Saturday game. Clark and McKelvy scored for Bethlehem. Pollitt had Chicago’s goal. In Minnesota Leonard Frank re hired as track coach for another year with higher pay as stands at Northrop field planned for 3 000 seating and 2 500 more seats in the armory. Detroit Y M C A basketball opens season Dec 23 against Chicago college team with Chicago university due to play here Dec 23.
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Ring Records Open Talk of Carpentier and Darcy Here
Ring records suggest the arrival of boxing stars Carpentier and Les Darcy to this country soon. Their careers in pugilism draw keen attention as fans await fresh bouts and the evolving era they symbolize.
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Palmyra eighth graders stage The Bird's Christmas Carol
In Palmyra Washington school's eighth grade presented The Bird's Christmas Carol Friday afternoon with a full cast led by Ira Johnson as Mr Bird and Lucile Todd as Mrs Bird. Additional performers included Thelma Wright Caryl Harvey Nix and others. Teachers planned Christmas holidays with destinations across Missouri while area students Theresa Redmond and Sallie Redmond prepared returns from Westminster and Synodical Female College. The local I O F lodge held second degree work and the Todd school Mothers club announced a pie supper next Wednesday night fundraising event.
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Mrs. Bird
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Caryl—Thelma Wright
Hugh—Jacob Happel
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Jessie Devereaux
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Eileen Durand
Peter— Harvey Nix
Susan—Lillian Young
Peoria
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Clement Raymond Jacobi
Kily—Sadie Smith
Aby Larry
Robert White
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Zella Riegel
Francs Bledsoe
Nina Baker
Zella Reigel
Vivian Johnson
Frances Bledsoe
Margaret Datume
Palmyra
Aliss
Fifteen Minutes to Replace Old Bridge Between Omaha and Council Bluffs
The Union Pacific steel bridge over the Missouri river between Omaha and Council Bluffs, in service 30 years, was moved and replaced by a new bridge built alongside. Weighing 5,600,000 and 11,200,000 pounds respectively, the swap took 15 minutes with five hoisting engines and 200 workers. Removal began at 11:10 am and finished at 3:40 pm, delays from lashings breaking. Trains were running over the new span an hour later.
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Better Conditions for Canal Laborers in Panama
Washington December 1 West Indian laborers at the Panama canal will receive wage increases lower rentals and improved living quarters following a special investigation by zone officials appointed by Acting Governor Harding. The board recommended reforms and the acting governor ordered them enacted at once. Wage increases range from one to two cents an hour.
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Gardner repudiates Mann leadership in Congress
Representative Augustus P. Gardner of Massachusetts repudiates James R. Mann’s leadership in Congress over Mann’s endorsement of President Wilson’s peace note to European belligerents. Gardner says he will back Lenroot of Wisconsin for speaker when Congress reconvenes.
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Wilson pardons two federal prisoners at Christmas
President Wilson pardoned Hall Ross of Guyandotte West Virginia for retail liquor crimes and ordered three months in jail suspended, and Lillian C. Munson of Georgia whose conviction for persuading embezzlement at Edgewater New Jersey was overturned stating insufficient proof of her involvement. The Justice Department was directed to speed their release to allow spending Monday with families.
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Turkeys for Perzhing's Men in Mexico Christmas feast
Dress ed turkeys filled 64 barrels 32 packing cases of fixings 3 500 pounds of candy and large boxes of fireworks were shipped into Mexico Saturday by motor trucks for the Christmas dinner of the American soldiers in Mexico Columbus New Mexico December 24 1918 or 1919 perzhing's men worded in a concise newsroom card style
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Grand American Trapshooting Tourney to Be Held in Chicago
Field by Peter P. Carney reports that the 1917 Grand American Handicap trapshooting tournament will be staged by the South Shore Country Club in Chicago. The Interstate Association endorses Chicago, noting five cities bid, with Grant Park favored for a 1915 classic precedent and Lake Michigan as a sky backdrop for the event.
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Omaha
Nebr
Waterloo
Badger Gun Club
Milwaukee
Wis
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Park Gun Club
Kansas City
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Kyronen Wins Yonkers Marathon in New York
Villa Kyronen of Mill Rose A. C. in New York won the Yonkers marathon on Saturday finishing about 26 miles in 2 hours 31 minutes 58.25 seconds. He beat Sidney S. Hatch of Chicago by roughly a mile with a 3 hour 26 second time as ten of 82 starters finished within the limit.
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Columbia University Wins Chess Championship
Columbia University won the intercollegiate chess championship finished Saturday in New York with 8 points. Yale followed second with 6.5 points, Harvard third with 5.5, and Princeton last with 4 points.
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Tin ker to be released by Chicago club in sale talks
Chicago Dec 24 Former manager Joseph B Tin ker of the Chicago Nationals who with Thomas E Wilson nearly closed a sale for the Columbus club of the American association will be given an unconditional release from the Chicago club if he desires it. President Chas R Weegiman announced. The man who considers himself a brick never boasts of being a common clay specimen.
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Sports Notes Snapshots From Across The Nation
INDIANAPOLIS Emil Hap Huhn of Cincinnati NL club is in hospital after ear surgery. last season his play was troubled. CHICAGO Northwestern football’s 22 mates to receive N’s at a Dec 22 banquet. list includes Paddy Driscoll and others. KALAMAZOO Kalamazoo College aims for Notre Dame and Wabash games in 1917 after clinching state title this season. LOUISVILLE Court upholds Racing Commission purse rule of at least 800. Douglas Park opposed higher purses. CHICAGO Northwestern plans to contend for Big Nine swimming honors as football pace setter.
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University athletics and regional clubs merge plans
Indianapolis and Ann Arbor report on athletic organization seek to form a winter team under Tom Robinson’s leadership. The Mississippi Valley regatta and Shriners conclave spark new boat race plans in Minneapolis with propsed entries from Detroit Chicago and Cleveland.
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