Dark Horses Loom Up in Majors as 1914 season looms
Baseball insiders name five managers Chance Stallings Carrigan Rickey and Robinson as the sport’s dark horse factors for 1914. Chance to revitalize the Yankees, Carrigan’s Red Sox aiming to regain glory, Robinson guiding Brooklyn with young pitchers, Rickey building St Louis, Stallings shaping the Braves into a pennant contender.
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New York
Messrs
Chance
Stallings
Carrigan
Rickey and Robinson
Franke Menke
Red Sox
Athletics
Senators
Naps
Robinson
Brooklyn
Dodgers
Rucker
Ragan
Ragon
Bobby
Branch Rickey
Browns
George Stovall
Rickey
Braves
Tyler
Purdue
Maranville
New York Counties Failing to Turn Over Motor Fines
The fiscal year ending October 1 reveals 24 of 61 counties did not remit any motor car fines to the state treasury. It also shows 22 counties have reported no motor vehicle fines since the Callan law took effect in 1910.
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New York
Motercycle visitors from New York and New York state attend Chicago show
Among those riding their motor cycles to the recent Chicago show were Mr. and Mrs. A. Strongonoff from Schenectady New York a wheel. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Gale rode through from Angola New York.
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Chicago
A. Strongonoff
Schenectady
N. Y
M. E. Gale
Angola
Walter Camp selects All American elevens
Walter Camp names his first all star eleven with End Hogset Dartmouth Tackle Ballin Princeton Guard Pennock Harvard Center Des Jardien Chicago Guard Brown Navy Tackle Talbot Yale End Merrilat Army Quarter Huntington Colgate Half Back Craig Michigan Half Back Brickley Harvard Full Back Mahan Harvard Also lists second and third elevens with players from Cornell Wisconsin Yale Army Harvard Notre Dame Minnesota Nebraska Michigan Rutgers Princeton Chicago Dartmouth Notre Dame Penn State Carlisle Wash Jeff Carlisle Notre Dame Princeton Chicago etc.
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Hogset
Dartmouth
Ballin
Princeton
Pennock
Harvard
Des Jardien
Chicago
Brown
Navy
Talbot
Yale
Merrilat
Army
Huntington
Colgate
Craig
Michigan
Brickley
Mahan
Fritz
Cornell
Butler
Wisconsin
Busch
Carlisle
Marting
Ketcham
Weyond
Hardwick
Wilson
Spiegel
Wash
Jeff
Guyon
Eichenlaub
Notre Dame
Solon
Minnesota
Halligan
Nebraska
Munns
Paterson
Tasman
Rutgers
Storer
Rockne
Miller
Penn
State
Baker
Norgren
Whitney
Yost
Camp
Monty
Tom Thorpe
Columbia
Frank G. Menke
International News Service
Menke
Hogsett
Thorpe
O’brien
Avery
Wagner
Pittsburg
Pontius
Hitchcock
Camp names 1918 All America nine from nine schools
Walter Camp releases his All America first team for 1918 with selections from Chicago Harvard Yale Princeton Michigan Colgate Navy and Army. Ends Hogsett Merrilat, Ballin, Talbot. guards Pennock Brown. center Des Jardien. quarterback Huntington. backs Brickley Mahan Craig. Camp notes varied attacks and the need for better passing across teams and predicts future evolutions of the game.
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Camp
Brown
Navy
Pennock
Harvard
Army
Des Jardien
University of Chicago
Huntington
Colgate
Brickley
Princeton
Yale
Mahan
Donlin Poised to Join Giants as Pinch Hitter
The Giants near adding Mike Donlin to their roster as pinch hitter after Harry McCormick moves to Chattanooga. McGraw would keep Donlin on payroll upon return, unless his hitting falters abroad. The piece tugs at past clashes and gossip from baseball circles, noting Donlin’s enduring star status and McGraw’s bargaining stance.
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Mike Donlin
New York Bugs
Joe Humphries
Harry McCormick
Giants
Vancouver
McGraw
McCormick
Chattanooga
Donlin
Mike
John Kinley Tener Rise From Clerk to Governor and Baseball Leader
John Kinley Tener, born in Ireland in 1868, rose from a Pittsburg clerk to a national baseball figure and later governor of Pennsylvania. He played for multiple clubs, joined Spalding’s world tour, built a business empire, served as congressman, and was elected Pennsylvania governor with a notable public record.
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Pittsburg
John Kinley Tener
Smoky City
Pennsylvania
National League
Tom Lynch
Ireland
America
Tener
William H. Moody
United States Supreme Court
Baltimore
Haverhill
Mass
A. G. Spalding
Charleroi
Buckley Puts Up With Norse Misidentification Of Gunboat Smith
In San Francisco dispatches boxer Gunboat Smith’s manager Jim Buckley endures pranks from Milaca Minnesota residents who insist Smith is from the Eckblad family of Norse lineage. Buckley notes Smith was born in Philadelphia to Irish parents, while Buckley jokes about Ireland as a home ground and plans an Ireland tour to prove heritage. The piece then muses on England’s pugilistic status, citing Carpentier, Wells, and Johnson in a reflective polemic on modern boxing.
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Dolan
Irwin
San Francisco
Cal
Jim Buckley
Gunboat Smith
W. W. Naughton
Buckley
Jim
Milaca
Minn
Gunboat
Eckblad
Philadelphia
Smith
Smyth
Campbell
Minnesota
Ireland
Georges Carpentier
France
Bombardier Wells
England
Isle
Queensbury
Thunderer
Daily Mail
Jack Johnson
Jem Mace
Stan
Packey McFarland
Jimmy Clabby
Johnson
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