Vance Voted National League Most Valuable Player
Brooklyn star Dazzy Vance wins the 1924 National League MVP prize with 74 votes, for 25 victories and leading in strikeouts. He will receive $1000, a medal, and a diploma, while Walter Johnson tops the American League to also claim MVP honors.
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Famousnitcher
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Walter Johnson
Washington Senators
New York Giants
Robinsee
Rogers Hornsby
St Louis
Hornsby
Frank Irish
Giants
Zach Wheat
Ross Youngs
Wags
George Kelly
Wheat
Rabbit Maranville
Pittsburgh
Frish
Roush
Cincinnati
Red Sox Announce New Orleans Spring Training Plan
Boston Red Sox announce training next spring in New Orleans instead of San Antonio. President Bob Quinn says New Orleans club offered attractive inducements to lure the team, with arrangements made to relocate the Sox’s spring activities.
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Boston Red Sox
San Antonio
Bob Quinn
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Westmoorland Wildcats to face hospital nurses team on Tuesday
Westmoorland Wildcats of Westmoorland College will play the P. and 3. Panthers, a nurses team from P. and S. hospital, on the hospital court Tuesday night at 7:30. De Genee resigns to flowers. In Columbus, Ohio, Tizer Flowers from Atlanta stopped Battling Geher of Memphis in the second round of a twelve round middleweight bout. Geher quit after the first round punishment.
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P. and S. Hospital
Genee
Flowers
Columbus
Ohio
Tizer
Atlanta
Battling Geher
Memphis
Tenn
Geher
Fifty Years Of Baseball National League Origins
The article notes the 1876 Louisville meeting where W A Hulbert A G Spalding Louis Meacham joined for Chicago St Louis Louisville and Cincinnati to organize the National League. It traces birthplace to New York for permanent organization with Louisville sharing start honors.
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Louis Meacham
Chicago
Charles A. Fowle
St. Louis
J. Chase
Joxee
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Leanne. Meacham
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Henry Chadwick
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Hartford
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Muimals
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Citzen
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Idaho quarterback plays season after neck dislocation
Ver non Stivers of the University of Idaho played the entire season after dislocating two neck vertebrae in a practice collision. He was paralyzed for two days, then regained the vertebrae and recovered, with coaches concealing the injury and keeping his neck taped in every game.
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Vernon Stivers
University of Idaho
Sesson
Stivers
Robert Mathews
Idaho
Army-Navy site decision favors New York for next game
The Army will choose the site for the next Army Navy football game and New York is seen as the likely location over Baltimore. The piece notes travel and seating advantages in Baltimore but favors a move back to the metropolis for spectator comfort and logistics. Columbia re-enters the South Atlantic Baseball Association with a new club, announced by Columbia Baseball Corporation president Va Probst.
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Army-Navy
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Columbia
Cy Dee
South Atlantic Baseball Association
Probst
Columbia Baseball Corporation
Sports Question Box readers seek rule answers and play insights
Readers send baseball football boxing and amateur queries to The Light special correspondents John B Wester Lawrence Perry and Fairplay. Include stamped self addressed envelopes for personal replies. otherwise questions are printed in this column.
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Fairplay
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World Building
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Red Chapmans Right Name and Yale Harvard Princeton Coaching Rule
Red Chapmans right name is Morris Kanlan. Fletcher was obtained by the Giants from Dallas in 1908 and played 29 games for New York in 1909 after arrangements with Dallas. No unwritten rule limits coaching to graduates at Yale Harvard or Princeton. varsity coaches show no formal rule.
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Arthur Fletcher
New York
Fletcher McGraw
Dallas
Lex
Fletcher
Red Chapman
Boston
Morris Kanlan
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Secretary denies plan for America’s Cup skipper
John Westwood secretary to Sir James Fipton denies reports that British yachtsman arranged with Amelius farm of Toronto to act as skipper for the next America’s Cup challenger. He says Sir Thomas saw Jarvis but no arrangement was made and there is no foundation for the report.
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New York
John Westwood
James Fipton
Amelius Farm
Toronto
Westwood
Thomas
Jarvis
Notre Dame Football Draws 269000 Fans In Season Finale
Notre Dame attracted 269000 spectators to its season closing game against Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh. Officials say attendance could set a new mid western football record for total season turnout.
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Notre Dame
Carnegie Tech
Pittsburgh
Walking champ quits job to train for Millrose games
Ugo Frigerio, two time Olympic stalking champion, deserts his Milan photograph business to prepare for the Millrose A A. meet in New York January 27 and 28. Emilio Lunghi warns American competition will be keener than in the last Olympics. William Plant of America will oppose Frigerio after Paris games absence. Garcie and Dundee set for a December 12 bout at Madison Square Garden amid a wider championship lineup.
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Stalker
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Eurese
Frigerio
Milan
Emilio Lunghi
Fri
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Wiliam Plant
America
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Dundee
Bobby Garcia
Camp Holabird
Maryland
Mike Dundee
Rock Isand
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Jose Lombards
Panama
Louis
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Meriden
Conn
Texas Longhorns Begin Basketball Rebuilding After Football
At University of Texas Austin dec 2 the Longhorns shift from football to basketball drills with coach B E J Stewart shaping a 1925 squad around Lester Sethgast captain center and other 1924 lettermen. Key losses include Bobby Robertson Abe Curtis Alphonse Razland and Joe Ward. fourteen conference games set with more outside contests to follow.
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Lester Sethgast
Bobby Robertson
Captaia
Robertson
Abe Curtis
Alphonse Razland
Joe Ward
California Penn clash shapes Pac Coast bid for New Year’s win
The San Antonio Light assesses California and Penn ahead of the big New Year’s Day game. It notes California’s strong line led by Horrell and McGinty and Penn’s backfield tandem Douglass and Krieg, with punting about even and California’s forward pass strategy under Andy Smith under consideration.
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Andy Smith
Pase
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Junior leaders win and standings virtually unchanged
The three top teams won Monday night in the Sunday School junior basketball league, leaving the standings largely intact. Central Christians shut out the Asiee Lutherans 3 to 0, St Mark's beat Beacon Hill Presbyterians 45 to 2, and the First Baptists edged the Central Baptists after a late foul.
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Cuba American Club Receiver to Be Appointed
In Jacksonville Florida a federal judge ruled a receiver will be appointed for the Cuba American Jockey and Auto Club, a Florida corporation. The petition by Harry J. D. Grown Sr of California cites insolvency and alleges fraud and mismanagement by officers and majority stockholders including Ales A. Stoneham, former club president and New York Giants owner. Hearing occurred in October with an opinion handed down by Judge R. M. Cull.
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Army launches three year plan to expand enlisted athletics
Washington December 2 Army to start a three year program January 1 to widen enlisted participation in athletics. Only one officer may play on a team with few exceptions as golf tennis and polo are portals for officer sports while general ranks compete in baseball football and basketball. Corps areas will arrange inter corps games and Pacific and Atlantic game duties are assigned to Ninth Corps Area and Fort Benning officials. Officer teams may appear at certain schools but cannot play interservice games against other services, and extra officer teams may form only for specific officer competitions. The Texas Officials Association will meet to discuss football rules as meeting logistics are noted and court officials may gather in coming days.
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Mexican heavyweight Fuenté heads to Newark for bout
Tony Fuente, Mexican heavyweight boxer, leaves Los Angeles for Newark to face Charlie Weinert in a December 1 fight after securing district attorney approval. He remains free on recognizance while awaiting trial for allegedly violating California anti prize fight law in a November bout with Tred Fulton of Minnesota.
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Thorpe Likely to Play at Schwab Field in San Antonio
Jim Thorpe is in talks with the San Antonio Athletic Association to host his professional eleven at Schwab Field this month. Harold Winters of Schwab Field says the game is nearly assured, with Rock Island eleven also touring the South for three games.
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