Sunday school track meet prep in San Antonio
Local Sunday school athletes train for the large meet at the old Fair Grounds next Saturday under Y M C A supervision. Entries due by 6 PM Thursday with events split into juniors intermediates and seniors and the Lightcup on display as a key trophy with Calvary Baptists and West End Methodists among contenders.
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George Wheeler
San Antonio
McKinley Avenue Methodists
West End Methodists
West End
Wheeler
College Scores From Various Cities This Round
In Austin Texas Baylor edged Baylor 2 to 1. In Columbus Mississippi A and M defeated Mississippi College 12 to 2. University of Mississippi beat Mississippi State 6 to 0 in Oxford. Furman won 8 to 0 at Greenville over Maryville 3. Clemson College defeated Citadel 4 to 2 at Clemson. St Paul American Association won 11 to 1 against Nashville Southern Association in Nashville. Macon South Atlantic League game ended Mercer 9 to 4. Georgia University fell 7 to 6 to University of Michigan in Athens. North Carolina A and M College beat Davidson 11 to 7 in Gastonia.
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Tenn
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Demon Stration Alcazar Stove Sale At Sam Speir Hardware
Advertisement notes an Alcazar Combination Cook Stove that burns gas coal and wood plus G43 ranges and oil cook stoves. Event dates April 10 to 15. Promoter is Sam Speir Hardware Company at 219 Losoya.
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Giants blank Yale in season opener
NEW HAVEN Conn April 12 The New York Nationals defeated Yale 7 to 0 in the opening game of the season Giants took advantage of Yale fielding miscues and timely hits while Yale stranded runners on third despite several threats Batteries Ritter Palmero Wendell Garfield Walsh Grant and Munson.
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Grant
Munson
Opening Major League Season Bins in Clear Weather
Major league baseball opens amid clear weather in seven of eight cities with strong expected attendances. In New York and Boston many roster changes and new owners reshape teams after last season’s World Series, with several former Federals returning to major league play. Number of games include Columbia over Dartmouth, Pirates rout Terre Haute, Virginia tops Cornell, and Boston Americans beat Boston College.
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Braves Close Exhibitions in New York
The Boston Nationals beat Fordham University 7 to 2 to end their exhibition season in New York. Details list players Knetzer Barnes Gowdy Tragessor McQuade McGinn and a $55.25 Washington round trip offer with travel dates April 13 14 15 and May 12 for Southern Pacific observing locomotives and observation cars.
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Five Dog Teams Race Across Alaska Snow Sweepstake
Nome Alaska April 12 Five dog teams began the ninth annual all Alaska sweepstakes from Nome to Candle and return a 412 mile course. Fred Ayer led 14 fox hounds at 9 am followed by Leonard Seppala with 17 Siberian wolf dogs Fay Delzene 14 Malamutes Robert Brown 14 dogs and Paul Kiegstad 14 bird dogs. After two hours nine minutes the first four teams reached Safety Road House with Ayer Brown Delzene Seppala arriving together. Kiegstad followed minutes later.
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Alaska
Candle and Return
Fred Ayer
Leonard Seppala
Fay Delzene
Paul Kiegstad
Safety Road House
Ayer
Brown
Delzene
Seppala
Kiegstad
Bond wins Business Boys Hop Step and Jump at YMCA
Jack Bond took first in the Business Boys class hop step and jump at the YMCA on Tuesday night with a 25 feet 3 inches. Crestlie Morris earned second at 23 feet 8 inches, Walter Janert third, 22 feet 9 inches, Arthur Lancaster fourth, 22 feet 4 1/2 inches. Bond holds 18 points in the standings. Morris 6 and Janert 7-1/2 join a field of names with varying points.
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Walter Janert
Bond
Crestlie Morris
Arthur Lancaster
Morris
Janert
Rudolph Steffler
Erich Menger
Alvin Icke
Clarence Boldt
Omar Barker
Charles Chowning
Allen Hines
William van Cleave
H. Farrington
Frank Erben
George Bailey
John Russell
Superbas Defeat Yanks Exhibition Win For Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Nationals beat the New York Americans 7 to 2 in an exhibition game. Batteries: Piercey Mosridge and Alexander Nanamaker Coombs Dell and Myers.
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Yanks
Brooklyn
N. Y
Brooklyn Nationals
New York Americans
Opening day boost for San Antonio baseball fans
The Sporting Editor notes a surge of local support aiming to crown San Antonio as the state’s top baseball center. Plans from merchants, clubs, and schools target a 3 o'clock close for opening day and a gala pregame, with optimism from President Harrison J. Benson that the city will win or place second for the president’s trophy. Pitcher Richard Aldworth, on trial with Connie Mack’s Athletics, earns praise from Philadelphia papers for a dominant performance and projected rise to stardom.
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Connie Mack
Athletics
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San Antonian
Aldworth
Stanley Keller
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Army Post
Mack
Williams Outclasses Lahn In Bantam Bout
In Baltimore on April 12 Kid Williams, bantamweight champion, dominated Battling Lahn of Brooklyn over ten rounds. Williams controlled most exchanges while Lahn, effected from the fifth round, remained dazed to the end.
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Lahn
Baltimore
Kid Williams
Battling Lahn
Brooklyn
Stogey
Connie Mack May Elevate Aldworth to Major League Game
The veteran manager has nurtured many talents before debutting them in the majors. Aldworth shows early promise, with the potential to follow the same path as past stars nurtured by Mack. The youngster has the stuff and could prove a late bloomer.
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Aldworth
Plan to Enter Athletics Formed by San Antonio Police
A new San Antonio Policemen's Athletic Association formed Tuesday with fifty members. W. B. Arnold is manager, G. W. Jackson secretary treasurer, C. G. Lykins chairman. Plans include hall access, YMCA cooperation, and regular exercise. Teams in handball tennis track and baseball to follow. local clubs will be challenged in coming months.
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San Antonio Policemen's Athletic Association
Police Relief Fund Association
W. B. Arnold
G. W. Jackson
C. G. Lykins
Kansas City Team Triumphs in Exhibition Win Over Topeka
Kansas City of the American Association defeated the Topeka Western League 11 to 4 in an exhibition game Tuesday afternoon in Kansas City. Batteries: Dashner Grover Snow Smith Lathrop Irion Crisp Hargrave.
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Mansas
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Dashner
Chicago Nationals dominate Louisville with nine to three win
The Chicago Nationals collected sixteen hits off three Louisville pitchers to defeat the local American Association Club 9 to 3 in Louisville. Seaton Brown and Fischer faced Perdue James Lear and Williams in the battery.
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Lear
Williams
City League to Meet in The Light Editorial Rooms
The City Manerall League will hold a meeting in The Light editorial rooms at 8 oclock Thursday night. All managers are urged to be present.
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Lane Barber Wins Intermediate Event at YMCA Meet
Lane Barber won first place in the YMCA Intermediate event with a high jump of 3 feet 10 inches. Forrest Fessler finished second, and George Sexauer third. Barber leads the individual standings with five points, followed by Fessler and Sexauer. Sexauer's team beat Robert Joyce's indoor baseball squad 7 to 3.
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Forrest Fessler
George Sexauer
Barber
Fessler
Sexauer
Robert Joyce
Schofield
Marold Ruey
Aubrey Schofield
Ernest Gen
Bane Garher
Harold Hill
Beall Takes Low Score in Pinehurst Open
E G Beall of Uniontown posted a 75 to win the low score trophy in the qualifying round of the April golf tournament in Pinehurst North Carolina. Four sixteens qualified from a field of 76 entrants.
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Pinehurst
N. C
E. G. Beall
Uniontown
Hamburg Like City of Dead Owing 10 War
Berlin reports Hamburg under war strain as trade halts and harbor activity slows to a crawl. The Hamburg American Line notes coal imports from England have collapsed, leaving ships idle, hotels closed, and streets quiet with patrols and emptied offices as the city confronts a prolonged postwar future.
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America
Antique Reseller Fumbles Dating In Witty Exchange
A Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph item reports a shopper questioning an antique when the dealer insists it is 600 years old. The buyer notes the date reads 1914, then the dealer blames a faulty assistant and corrects the year to 121.
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Pitteburg Chronicle-Telegraph
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