Third Field Artillery Wins Fastball Practice Game
Third Field Artillery defeated the combined Engineer and Signals Corps 9 to 2 in a seven inning practice contest at Infantry Post. Hawk held the opposition to three hits as Matthews and Bodine struck out eleven for Artillery while Duane belted two homers and a single. Johnson added a double and a triple for the winners.
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Fort Sam Houston
Third Field Artillery
Combined Engineer and Signals Corps
Infantry Post
Hawk
Harry Fansler
Cox
McCullough
Gamage
Duane
Worthy
Ty Cobb
Johnson
Matthews
Engineer-Signal Corps
Bodine
R. H. E. Third Artillery
YM C A Schedules Busy Athletic Week
The Y M C A plans finals in each class of the handball tournament and league play for seniors and intermediates. The city champion basketball team will defend its title and a volleyball league will form among businessmen. Notable class A players include former champions Paul H Scholz John Muesebagh and Fred Felthouse along with Robert G Harris Dan Murphy Robert Smith and Arthur lieforth.
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Young Men's Christian Association
Amozig
Paul H. Scholz
John Muesebagh
Fred Felthouse
Robert G. Harris
Dan Murphy
Robert Smith
Arthur <Lieforth
Italian Soldiers Beat Allied Troops 6 to 4 In Milan Front Match
A Sunday football match near the Milan front pitted Italian soldiers against English Belgian and French troops. The Italians won 6 to 4 before a large crowd at the arena. Separately a Massachusetts inventor demonstrated a motor driven device that tracks and operates garage doors from a distance while seated in a car.
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Milan
Shugetts
Wagner idolized by Dreyfuss and praised for loyalty
In a New York peace talk, Barney Dreyfuss extols Honus Wagner as the greatest ballplayer, noting his consistency with 154 games a year, elite hitting, fielding and running. He recounts Wagner asking for salary relief, and Dreyfuss refusing while predicting Wagner could play ten more years if able.
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Carnegie
Barney Dreyfuss
New York
Cub
Barney
Hans Wagner
Svill
Wagner
Honus
Pirates
The
Harvard plans first New England intercollegiate wrestling meet
Harvard Mats chief Philip Blanchard aims to stage an intercollegiate wrestling carnival at Hemenway Gym on March 11 inviting Yale Brown Technology and Springfield College Y M C A. Favorable replies have come from Trinity Amherst Bates Maine and Wesleyan as hopes rise for a New England league formation.
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Mass
Harvard
Hemenway Gym
New England
Yale, Brown, Technology
Springfield College
Philip Blanchard
Trinity
Amherst
Bates
Maine
Wesleyan
Brown
Yale
Princeton
Andover
Teach
Hickey ex coach discusses Yale football return
Frank Hinkey Yale head coach says he never involved himself in football politics and does not know the current policy at Yale. He notes his contract runs another year and friends may push to keep him as assistant coach if asked to return. The statement frames his stance as a business matter.
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New Haven
Conn
Frank Hinkey
Yale
Hinkey
Herzog and McCloskey Tales From Reds Giants Series
The Reds despite rookie pitchers and fielders faced a tense series with the Giants. Larry Doyle lined a ball to the left of third base injuring Charlie Herzog who urged rookies to shift. McCloskey, initially left behind, joined the trip and later impressed yet faltered in an exhibition, prompting Herzog to compare him to a youthful Walter Johnson. The piece closes noting an unwritten rule restricting黒 players from major league play.
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Tion
Cuba
Gonzales
Ed Delehanty
New York
Charlie Herzog
Reds
Giants
Herzog
Larry Doyle
Doyle
Cub
McCloskey
Cincinnati
Walter Johnson
Connecticut
Trinity Rails Against Brickley Case in College Athletics
Hartford January 3 Trinity College declines fault for using George Brickley on the football squad this past season. A modified eligibility rule is expected for next year to bar objectionable professional baseball while allowing bona fide students to earn part of their income through summer baseball. President Henry Perkins advocates fairness and questions strict rules that force hypocrisy.
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Hartford
Conn
Trinity College
George Brickley
Trinity
Brickley
Yale Daily News
Henry Perkins
Yale
Field Trials Open in Grand Junction Tennessee
West Tennessee opened the field trial season with the all-age stakes of the United States Club in Grand Junction. Next week the amateur championship is set for Rogers Springs, then the national championships here, finalizing a circuit begun in Denbigh, North Carolina last September. Twenty eight dogs started in the all-age stake, including the painter John Proctor owned by A L Curtis of Belton Texas.
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Grand Junction
Tenn
West Tennessee
United States Club
Rogers Springs
National Championship Association
Denbigh
N. C
John Proctor
A. L. Curtis
Belton
Texas
South Australia Offers Bonus for Oil Discovery
The government of South Australia offers a large cash bonus to the first person or corporation producing 100000 gallons of crude petroleum from a well. The prize aims to encourage increased oil production and exploration.
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Government of
South Australia
Meeting to decide Federal League players status in case Chicago and St Louis clubs are bought
Cincinnati reports the national baseball commission will tackle whether players from the St. Louis and Chicago Federal League clubs fall under the waiver rule if Federal owners acquire the Chicago Nationals and St Louis Americans. The issue looms as the major item at the annual meeting.
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Cincinnati
National Baseball Commission
St. Louis
Chi
Federal
Chicago
Basketball teams resume tourney at Y M C A
After a week off the Sunday school basketball series returns at the Y M C A Tuesday night. In the National League the South Alamo Methodists meet the Central Christians, while in the American League the Prospect Hill Baptist quint faces the Mc Kinley Avenue Methodist five. Charles Causey will referee and J M Hall will umpire.
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South Alamo Methodists
Central Christians
Prospect Hill Baptist Quint
McKinley Avenue Methodist
Charles Causey
J. M. Hall
Trench Flooding Leads Austrians to Uncover Russian Coffin Beds
In the Vienna report a Kaiserjaeger unit fighting near Czartorisk found dry Russian trenches and drove the Russians from their positions within minutes. While occupying the captured lines they discovered about thirty coffins filled with shavings used previously by Russian soldiers as beds, then slept on them.
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Vienna
Czartorysk
Kaiserjaeger
Potchernicks Clinch Pennant In Winter League Opener
Potchernick baseball team defeated the Chapas 7 to 6 and the Federals beat the Droemears 7 to 3 at Krisch park on Sunday. The win clinches the pennant for the Potchernicks in the Winter League series.
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Potchernick
Chapas
Federals
Droemears
Krisch Park
Potchernicks
Sphagnum Moss Used for Wound Dressings in War Hospitals
Sphagnum moss widely used by florists and nurserymen is now sent to European military hospitals for wound care. Augus tus E Ingram notes Moss dressing used in Bou logne France and by Red Cross groups reaching Malta and Gallipoli. Moss offers superior absorption and disinfection, aiding compound fractures from gunshot wounds. A fireman mask design aims to improve air quality near floors in burning buildings.
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United States
New York Tribune
Scotland
Edinberg
London
British Isles
Augustus E. Ingram
Bradford
England
Department of Commerce
Boulogne
France
Red Cross
Malta
Alexandria
Gallipoli
Seria
Oil fuel set to power British liner fleet for 25 years
London reports a major oil fuel deal linking Mexican Petroleum with Cunard White Star Atlantic Transport Dominion and Leyland Lines to supply all required oil for the next quarter century. Thirty oil-tankers were ordered on Clyde Tyne and Tees last August with some ships built in the United States after Admiralty clearance.
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London
Cunard, White Star
Atlantic Transport
Dominion and Leyland Lines
Mexican Petroleum Company
Clyde
Tyne and Tees
United States
Teachers Turn Bowlers Form Main Ave High Club
A bowling club formed by male faculty at Main avenue high school plans a tournament soon. Seven members meet Fridays at a downtown alley including Principal H H Ryan, Marshall Johnston, Jack Howard, Smith, Kiesewetter, Dr. Pessels, and Thomas. A faculty basketball team is also being organized to enter the municipal league.
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Main Avenue High School
H. H. Ryan
Marshall Johnston
Jack Howard
C. Smith
Bruno Kiesewetter
Constance Pessels
A. R. Thomas
Ryan
Polo poloists compete as Third Cavalry triumphs
Stage polo on Trent Field at Fort Sam Houston Sunday saw the Third Cavalry defeat San Antonio four 23 to 4 with two substitutes. Third Field Artillery beat Staff Post four 2 to %. Despite drizzle heavy footing, ponies and riders performed with zest and accuracy in solid form.
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Trent Field
Fort Sam Houston
Third Cavalry
San Antonio
Third Field Artillery
Train to Mexico City Opens With Juarez Armies
Through train service from Juarez to Mexico City begins today with a military train carrying General Jose Elizondo's command. Elizondo and around 2000 Villa troops are ordered to Queretaro as the move advances southward.
Polo world grows in United States as players rise past 1400
New York Jan 3. Polo prospects brighten with an estimated 1407 players, 579 military and 828 civilians, and 2412 mounts. Growth continues despite wartime delays with clubs forming on the Pacific coast and new grounds planned in San Mateo St Louis White Plains Narragansett Pier Dayton Piping Rock Meadow Brook.
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New York
United States
Pacific Coast
Hawaii
Philippines
Aiken
Camden
Army Posts
Washington
Philadelphia
Lakewood
Narragansett Pier
Point Judith
San Mateo
Cal
St. Louis
White Plains
N. Y
R. I
Dayton
Ohio
Piping Rock
Meadow Brook
L. I
Fore Heard Then Mid-Cash Demand Standoff
An anxious exchange on a golf course leads to a demand for payment after a ball confrontation. The golfer responds that four strikes suffice, reflecting a tense moment captured in Yale Record style humor.
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Yale
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