Badgers Win Title in Game at Army Post
The First Wisconsin defeated the Third Illinois infantry eleven 9 to 0 at Fort Sam Houston in a tense Christmas Day tourney final for the Army and Navy News cup. Captain Welch led Wisconsin with sharp straight football and key plays from Schamel and Meyer. Illinois fought hard, with standout backs and solid line work, but Wisconsin held firm to clinch the title before a large crowd.
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Fort Sam Houston
Army and Navy News
Wisconsin
Illinois Infantry
Welch
Messner
Schamel
Meyer
Wiscon
Illinois
Rer
Ridge
Worthy
McCreight
Keller
McMurray
Rhode
Johnson
Green
Loos
Ilinois
Myers-Beall
Martin Lewis Arrives in San Antonio for Championship Bout
Wrestler Martin Lewis, famed light-heavyweight, is due in San Antonio Wednesday for a five fall match against Pet Brown in Beethoven Hall next Friday. Reports say Lewis, unbeaten this season, weighs 168 pounds at 3 pm, likely 173 in the ring, and will face middleweight champion Brown in a two best falls in three contest.
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Martin Lewis
Pet’ Brown
Beethoven Hall
San Antonio
Strangler
Lewis
Sullivan declines Tiger battery coach post for next season
Detroit news reports Billy Sullivan will not coach the Detroit battery men next season. He told President Navin he would stay on his Oregon ranch unless offered a strong appeal. Navin plans to proceed without a special battery coach with Stanage and Spencer likely taking charge of the pitchers.
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Sullivan
Tiger Battery
Detroit
Mich
Billy” Sullivan
Detroit Battery
Navin
Oregon
Stanage
Spencer
Pearl Team Wins Winter League Flag
By sweeping a doubleheader over Meier Pharmacy, the XXX Pearl baseball team clinched the Winter League pennant. Final scores were 7 to 2 and 12 to 0 as Pearl hitters dominated. Teddy Green and Happy Hynes contributed key runs and triples. Meier Pharmacy and Chapas battled in other games, with Dreemers taking both ends of a doubleheader.
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Meier Pharmacy
Chapas
Dreemer
Cy” Fried
Pearls
Burnet
Red” Willard
Stab
Dreemers
Oldest Living Race Horse Driver In Critical Illness
Kalamazoo Michigan December 26 John Mullen aged 96 longest living race horse driver is critically ill after a recent broken hip. A famed turf figure for decades he retired twenty years ago and has lived at the county home for over 16 years. He once piloted Flora Temple during her Civil War era track record run. Nebraska Cleared Five Thousand Dollars
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Kalamazoo
Mich
John Mullen
Mullen
Flora Temple
Krug to Pilot Omaha Champions
Omaha reports Marty Krug will manage the pennant winning 1917 Omaha Western League team though contracts are unsettled. Drafts and sales have created gaps in the lineup with needs for two catchers two infielders two outfielders and at least two pitchers to be filled.
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Krug
Omaha
Neb
Marty Krug
White Outboxes Pierce In Brooklyn Boxing Match
Charlie White of Chicago outboxed Harry Pierce of Brooklyn in every round of a ten round Christmas day bout in Brooklyn. Pierce weighed 132 pounds while White weighed 137.
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White
Pierce
New York
Charlie White
Chicago
Harry Pierce
Brooklyn
Frascible Man Decries Value of a Hill of Beans
The Birmingham Age Herald quotes a brash remark about the high cost of living making a hill of beans valuable. The exchange features a braggart insisting on worth and a modest countercheck.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
A Bleacher Fan Speaks On Ban Johnson Policy
A sporting editor argues Ban Johnson will not cut bleacher seating. He favors low twenty five cent seats to attract weekday crowds and cites the bleacher fan as a vocal, loyal supporter who attends games multiple times weekly.
Comiskey Takes Up Golf in Christmas Gift Tale
Chicago American owner Charles A. Comiskey has taken up golf. President B. B. Johnson of the American League gave him clubs a bag and a wrist watch as a Christmas gift, and Johnson also begins his first outdoor golf trials.
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Chicago
Charles A. Comiskey
Chicago Americans
B. B. Johnson
American League
Comiskey
Johnson
White Sox Golfers Train at Mineral Wells in 1917 Campaign
Chicago Americans reach Mineral Wells Texas in late March to train for the 1917 season and use a new golf course. Players Eddie Collins George Weaver Happy Felsch and Joe Benz are keen golfers and trained here in 1916.
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White Sox
Chicago
Mineral Wells
Tex
Eddie Collins
George Weaver
Local skier sets Carey slope record at 166 feet
Christ Jellum, a Chicago amateur skier, jumped 166 feet at Carey Newfoundland on Christmas Day, claiming a new slope record. He surpassed professional Ragner Omtvedt by one foot, and beat the previous amateur mark of 135 feet.
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Chicago
Christ Jellum
Carey
Ragner Omtvedt
President Johnson opposes cut in 25 cent bleacher seats
Chicago December 26 President B B Johnson of the American League says there will be no reduction in the 25 cent bleacher seats in AL parks. The NL at a New York meeting voted to cut bleacher seats in certain cities. He adds they will cut expenses before raising prices or reducing cheap seats.
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Ban Jonhson
Chicago
Dent B. B. Johnson
National League
New York
Johnson
Cooper Captures Fifty Mile Race At Ascot Speedway
Earl Cooper won the fifty mile match race at Ascot speedway in 44 41 over Eddie Pullen who finished one second back. Wilbur D Alene crashed through a fence in the second lap, overturning his car and sustaining minor injuries.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Earl Cooper
Ascot Speedway
Eddie Pullen
Cooper
Wilbur D'Alene
English heavyweight Cowler outpoints Smith in Rochester match
Tom Cowler, the English heavyweight, outpointed Gunboat Smith in a fast ten round bout in Rochester on Christmas Day. Cowler held the edge in eight rounds. he weighed 207 pounds to Smith's 183.
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Rochester
N. Y
Tom Cowler
Smith
Cowler
Wildcat Takes Meat From Hog Outdoors
In Altoona Pennsylvania a large wildcat raided a hog hanging to cool on a tree. The Ritchey family at Three Culverts reported the animal carried off two shoulders of meat during Thanksgiving night while the butchering party dined. Neighbors now keep livestock secure at night.
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Altoona
B. A. Ritchey
Emerson Hough Attacks European Novelist
Emerson Hough condemns a pessimistic European novelist as cynical and harmful to simple matters. He recalls a Paris dinner remark about marriage and courage, noting the novelist’s sneering reply about men marrying for lack of nerve.
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Emerson Hough
Europe
Paris
Mr. Hough
Michigan may rejoin Western Conference, says Ohio State official
Prof. Thomas E. French, head of Ohio State athletic board, believes a majority of Big Nine universities favor Michigan's return to the Western Conference. He cites Chicago meeting opinions and Michigan alumni sentiment as supporting a possible change in football regulations. He did not indicate active steps by Michigan to alter policy.
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Columbus
Ohio
University of Michigan
Thomas E. French
Ohio State University Athletic Board
Wolverines
Michigan
French
Chicago
One Hundred in Tourney for National Indoor Tennis Title
Nearly one hundred entrants started play in New York for the junior national indoor tennis championship. The field is the largest ever, boosted by raising the age limit to 20. Defending champion Elliott Binson of Fordham College faces several leading challengers.
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New York
Elliott Binson
Fordham College
The Mean Thing In A Crossed Conversation
Dialogical quip from the Boston Transcript about what counts as classic. First girl cites a fact as classic while Mr Dauber asks what classic means. The second girl replies that most anything old qualifies as classic.
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