Lajoie Retires After 23-Year Baseball Career
Napoleon Lajoie, famed infield star and former manager, announces retirement from professional baseball after 23 seasons. He played for Philadelphia, Cleveland, and managed Indianapolis last season, with 3243 hits and a .335 career batting average. He exits to focus on interests in an automobile fire manufacturing company.
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Napoleon Lajoie
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Indianapolis
Torento
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Philadelphia Nationals
Philadelphia Athletics
Pennsylvania
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Largie
Lajoie Likely Not Renewed by Indianapolis Club
Indianapolis reports indicate Napoleon Lajoie will not have his contract renewed as the famed second baseman plans retirement. President McGill in Los Angeles says Lajoie would consider managing only as a playing bench manager, with his contract due to expire January 1. Jack Hendricks of the 1917 squad may return to manage from the St. Louis Cardinals, per strong reports.
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Napoleon Lajoie
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Los Angeles
Cal
Lajoie
Ayere
McGi
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St. Louis Cardinals
London
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Leipzig
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Goetz
Mot ‘Itz Busch
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Kaiser
Prince William
William I
Gastein
Cmme
Foreign Office
Keeps Up Streak Taitheran Triumphs 34 to 1 over Pine Street
The St Jul Taitheran Sunday School team extended its winning streak by defeating Pine Street AF eterna 34 to 1. Gottwald led with twelve points while Basse Krueger and Moyer added eight six and four respectively. Bernhart Ferguson and Witt contributed as the Taitherans showed a steady all game effort.
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Taitheran
Pine Street
Eterna
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Krueger
Moyer
Bernharat
Ferguson
Jed
Dulling
Ixnglies
Witt
Tatherans
Line Street Boys
NCAA delegates push year long coaches and training table ban
New York delegates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association convention urged abolition of the training table except at open inter collegiate contests and during organized summer training. They also recommended that seasonal coaches become full year coaches and favored establishing a chair of athletics rather than hiring a professional coach.
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New York
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Fulton Defeats Langford In Four Round Bout
Fred Fulton of Minnesota won by decision over Sam Langford of Boston in four rounds in San Francisco. Fulton dominated with straight lefts keeping Langford at bay, though Langford scored when able. The bout supported a children's Christmas tree fund.
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San Francisco
Cal
Fred Fulton
Minnesota
Sam Langford
Boston
Fulton
Langford
Sulton
Pat's Little Joke Stolen Ham Incident at Dublin Shop
A Dublin shop tale recounts Pat, bold toward police, stealing a ham hung outside the door after paying 15 shillings for it. An officer and the shop assistant dispute, claiming the ham was paid for by a best customer and hung for Pat to retrieve. The scene ends with the shopkeeper's rueful remark and Pat's continued mockery.
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Dublin
Bat
Double header opens Sunday school basketball race in city
The Sunday School league resumes after influenza restrictions with a two game card tonight. Alamo Heights Methodists oppose St Mark's Episcopals in the Federal League first zone while West Hind Methodists meet Pine Street Presbyterians in the American League second round. Most teams are new to the league and rosters are still forming as illness and quarantine impact play. The Alamo Heights squad is considered a dark horse while St Mark's relies on veterans returning from service. Outcomes tonight will influence series placement as teams build up practice and improve.
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City Y. M
Dil
Alamo Heights
West Hind Alethodists
Pine Street Presbyterians
West End Methodists
St. Mark’s
Army
Navy
Ommig Gish
Arthur Tuttlebes
Carl Gildermeister
Russell Jonas
Episcopalians
Iast Yeur
Onight
St. Alaini
Alamo Treights
Dark Horse
West Enders
Pine Streeters
Sports and social notes from a bygone era
A jumble of sports gossip and sharp asides about coaches salaries boxing bouts and city clubs. Reflections on athletic pay compare college presidents to coaches while ship crews and boxing tours draw coverage. Basketball goals and wagers prompt playful asides as January events and exhibitions loom.
Allah Prayer Fails as Turkish Batter Strikes Out
In a Constantino ple game between Turks and the Scorpion crew the Turkish batter prays for a good eye nerve and strength but three strikes end his at bat. An American sailor then hits a home run sealing the victory for the Americans. Also reports two men found guilty of murder in the third trial in Panama City and troops guarding Montevideo amid Maximalist agitation.
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Navy
Constantinople
Vurk
Everybody's Magazine
Panama
City
Fis
Will
Bob Blackwell
Davis
French Losses Given in Chamber of Deputies Report
Paris reports from the Chamber of Deputies that France’s total officer and enlisted deaths through November 1 reach 1,071,300, with 31,300 officers and 7,040,000 men dead. The tally lists 42,000 officers and 1,700,000 men killed or missing, plus 3,000 officers and 311,000 men missing. Prisoners living total 800 officers and 43,000 men. Also noted is a surge in tobacco shipments to the United States, value rising from 2,914,627 in 1913 to 14,422,703 in 1917.
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Chamber of Deputies
Aft
Abvas
Cof
Hat Rance
Lesses
United States
Greven
TNT and MacArthur praised for war leadership
Washington reports two items. First, hundreds of thousands of pounds of TNT and picric acid, owned by France and Italy, are being towed out to sea and dumped to dispose of material near Wilmington. Second, Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher lauds Brig. Gen. Douglas MacArthur for bold leadership in the 42nd Rainbow division, urging his promotion to major general and detailing his actions in the Verdun and Vesle sectors and his brigade's pivotal role in breaking enemy defenses.
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Railroad Administration
Scotland Neck
Douglas MacArthur
49Nd
Charles T. Menoher
Pershing
General MacArthur
Washington
MacArthur
United States
Rench Legion of Honor
Monoher
Dnd
Champagne
Aisne-Marne
Vesle
Menoher
First Army Corps I
Nesles
Mencher
Krienhilde
Verdun
Cote de Chatillon
Reds Menace Vilna
Vilna the capital of Lithuania faces a Bolshevik advance, Warsaw reports. The Polish chief of staff asks German generals Hoffman and Falkenhayn to allow Polish troop trains to move from the frontier toward Vilna. If denied, Polish forces will press into Lithuania to thwart Bolshevik capture, seeking allied officers to accompany.
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London
Vilna
Lithuania
Warsaw
Hoffman
Falkenhayn
Stout Elected President of Texas Woman's College
Fort Worth Texas December 28 Stout Bi. Stout president of Howard Payne College for Women at Fayette Missouri was elected president of Texas Woman's College a Methodist institution at a trustees meeting yesterday
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Stout
Fort Worth
Tex
Howard Paynt College For Women
Fayette, Mo
Exas Woman's College
Shriners Dedicate New Orleans Mosque in Three Day Program
Shrinners from the South gather in New Orleans for the dedication ceremonies of the new 350000 dollar Mosque built by Jerusalem Temple of New Orleans. Imperial Potentate F. I. Jacoby of Indianapolis attends the three day program.
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Shriners
New Orleans
South
Jerusalem Temple
Imperial Yentate FE. I. Jacoby
Indianapolis
Charter Issued to First National Bank of San Juan
A charter has been issued to the First National Bank of San Juan at San Juan, Lexus. The bank's capital is set at 25,000 dollars.
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Dallas
Capital Stock
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M. M. Rodgers
N. Striotland
Howard Bure Life Company of
J. W. Moore
FL. M. Burt
W. 8. Burr
First State Bank of
Strawn
Guaranty State Bank of Chillicothe
Hledya-Oklahoma
Bridge Company
Inlectra
Capital
J. B. Ferguson
EK. M. Priend
W. T. Sheldon
Texzo
Ranger
Capita
C.H. Wolfe
John
Sankey
W. G. Skelly
Ol Well and
Wise
Sun Company of
Camden
N. d
Texas
Beaumont
Slumberg Motor Manufacturing Company
San Antonio
Trouston-Essenkay Sales Company
Houston
Bank For
San Juan
Washington, D. C
First National Bank of
Lexus
Fire destroys grandstand at Tait Grounds track New Orleans
At New Orleans the grand stand clubhouse and paddock burned early today, with losses estimated over 200000. The training quarters and stables were saved and the winter racing schedule set to start January 1 despite the blaze.
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New Orleans
Tait Grounds
Association
Greenwich Village Eats and the Art Crowd
A cheeky profile of Greenwich Village dining and bohemian life, noting poets painters pianists and sculptors who now enjoy affluence after the war. It highlights rising rents and new urban appetite while praising a stubborn appetite for meals in the village.
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