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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1912
Page
4
Frank Gotch, the world wrestling champion, notes athletes peak between 27 and 32 then deteriorate in agility and endurance. He reflects on his own career planning to retire with public respect, citing Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson as comparisons and denying a rematch with Zbyszko.
The list names athletes across colleges and clubs as 1911 All-American track selections. Members include Ralph Craig University of Michigan, Louis Scott South Paterson A C, J P Jones Cornell, John Eller Irish American A C, Platt Adams New York A C, Matt McGrath unattached New York, Ollie Snedigar Olympic A C Frisco, Harry Babcock Columbia, Fred Thompson Princeton Theological Irish American A C, and others.
Umpire Harry Howell set for Eastern league 1912. New York State Baseball league trims salary cap to 2500. Louisville sells Howard Baker to Hartford league. Cuban team defeats York Giants with rough play. Playing managers may fade from majors. Ty Cobb meeting likened to tight shoe comfort. Ottawa considers Sunday ball if admitted to Canadian league. Frank Owens of Minneapolis wed Helen Winslow in Toronto. San Francisco expects Jackson to replace Tom Tennant. Northwestern league chief Fielder Jones named by newspapers. Walter Slagle buys Glendale farm after moving to Los Angeles. London club bans kidney punch while Olympic club scooped. Football deaths minimal, deer hunting cited. Cantilons hopeful for Long Tom Hughes return. Skipper O'Brien joins Worcester. Walter Camp favored east. Camp Jr left out of all-stars. Illinois boy with plaster rib proves grit. Wolgast adopts risky inside game view. Football, golf, skating keep folks busy. many sports notes drift with chatter.
Jimmy Callahan, veteran player and new manager of President Comis Key's White Sox, rejects bench role rumors. He says he will bench only when fans behind him say his uniform should come off, likening the bleacher crowd to a barometer of baseball.
Mrs. A R Martin of New York and Thellford mines Ont. reported the loss of a diamond brooch valued near $1000 while traveling to the Yale Princeton game in New Haven. She found the loss at 1 45 pm but delayed reporting so as not to miss the game, and police believe the brooch was stolen.
Germany develops breast stroke swimmer G Barthe who looks to contend for international honors at next summers Stockholm Olympics. Barthe has recorded 200 meters in two minutes thirty five seconds and 400 meters in six minutes forty five seconds.
Baseball legend Christy Mathewson, known as Peerless Matty and Big Six, is hailed as the era's top pitcher. A comparison with Denton Young highlights Mathewson’s ten year dominance, career pace, and potential to surpass 600 wins before retirement with the Giants.
The article surveys the Tunisian Protectorate as a premier winter retreat with Tunis as a hub, traces Roman aqueducts from Zaghouan to Carthage, notes Zaghouan’s Hotel de France and Nymphaeum, and describes excursions south along the Gulf of Syrtis to Susa Thapsus Mahedia Sfax Gabes and finally Djerba with its date palms, warning visitors not to stay forever in the Lotus island.
The speaker argues personal outreach is universal and effective. Anyone can speak to relatives, coworkers, or strangers about faith, from a rich city businessman to a five year old child, a porter on a train, or a hovel resident, with transformative results.
The article discusses a historic interpretation of a football rule that allowed a ground bound drop kick to sail over the bar, recalling Radbourne of the 1884 Providence team who argued for a strike if a pitched ball struck the ground and crossed the plate at legal height. The rule was later changed to avoid bowling like cricket and to favor straight pitching.
Seaford resident Prof Aloysius Darwin Huxley Columbus McSorley boasts a new hybrid of flying oysters born from incubated flying fish. He claims daylight oyster harvests by morning, with plans to cross a swordfish next year. Also included is a light anecdote about twins Sheldon and Huntley and Aunt Anne’s teaching.
A dialogue shows racial tension as a colored patriarch praises a whitewasher while noting odd behavior about a chicken house. The newcomer asks who is best at whitewashing and the exchange reveals discrimination and skepticism about employability.
Popular Mechanics highlights two new Paris exhibit toys related to flight. One is "modern war" with a wooden aeroplane target on a two-part airship, launched by a pistol with a slot for wings. The other is "a race across the channel" using elastic‑corded planes sliding along coastal pulleys toward England, with ris",
A Cornell Medical College expert argues colds arise from infection not drafts. He urges frequent hand washing and avoiding touching face, noting fresh air helps but does not cause illness and that germs infect via nose or mouth.
A speaker argues criticizing others is useless and urges living the better path. By quietly modeling virtue, one can inspire self-criticism and growth, as a Christian man once inspired a confidant to strive for better.
Rev N D Hillis of Brooklyn Congregationalist argues no church is better than its leaders and creed and bigotry. He asserts the life of the church lies in its future and many historical items should be forgotten.
The remarks by Rev. H. Hough of Brooklyn stress religion as an economic and social program. He argues it carries authenticity for moral stragglers under the demands of conscience and duty.
The note cites J. M. Wilson of the Presbyterian church praising service as the fulfillment of the law, linking devotion to duty with religious duty and moral living.
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