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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1917
Page
5
The Morris Company bowling team defeated the Service Engraving Company three games to none via forfeit in Friday night action. The Packers totaled 636, 737 and 662, with Engraving recruit Enge leading Morris with a 436 grand total.
Harvey Thorpe of Kansas City won a referee's decision over Arles Fanning of Bartlesville in a fast 12 round match at 133 pounds. Both fighters finished strong with Thorpe gaining the edge at close range with heavy lefts to the body. Jimmy Evans of Kansas City was ringside.
A fighter from California lands a single clean punch in under ten seconds of the semi windup, knocking out Jimmy Wade with the only blow of the contest.
A telegram from the Louisville training camp announced that James Thorpe star athlete will join the ColoneIs in the outfield for the coming season. He was acquired as part of the Middletown sale to the New York club.
West Texas defeated Brackenridge High School 15 to 5 in a Friday afternoon Academic series game. Kennedy led the offense for West Texas with a home run boosting their scoring burst.
Friday night fans expected a fifteen round lightweights clash between Bobby Waugh of Fort Worth and Sailor Davis of Cleburne at 803% Commerce Street. The Beethov en Hall card was postponed after Sheriff John Tobin was alerted the fight would proceed. A large crowd gathered at 8:30, but deputy sheriffs warned arrests would follow if the bout went on.
In Des Moines on Friday night Bobby Burns of Dallas Texas won nine of ten rounds against Quincy Quigley of Cherokee Iowa according to local reporters Jack Smith of Des Moines KOed Leo Barrett of Milwaukee in the fifth round.
Jack Fisher, lightweight wrestling champion, defeated Young Willoughby of Kansas City in straight falls at Decatur Indiana. The first fall took 33 minutes with a neck scissors and toe hold and the second fell in seven minutes with a toe hold.
In San Francisco on March 10 McNamara and Hill and Root and Corey were ruled out after a late spurt by Jake Magin and Willie Spencer. A crash led to riders leaving the track and referee Hunter ordered their return within five minutes. none did, ending the pairs' chances in the race.
The St. Louis Browns plan two exhibition games in San Antonio against the Bronchos on March 31 and April 1, with a Corpus Christi stop also on the itinerary. Manager Fielder Jones seeks more games in the Alamo City as the 1917 squad, featuring a host of young pitchers, trains at Palestine, aiming to contend like 1916.
Play in the East West tennis tournament in Los Angeles resumed Saturday weather permitting. The day’s opening singles featured Theodore Roosevelt Pell versus John R. Strachan, with other matches including a postponed doubles clash at 7-7 in the fourth set. The eastern team led two sets to one in that match.
Dolly Stark veteran infielder and former Memphis and San Antonio manager will be given a trial at shortstop with the Little Rock club after returning from retirement due to a back injury. The move follows Stark’s earlier retirement near the season’s end.
Princeton coach Clarke must rebuild the Tigers after heavy graduation losses. Only three regulars remain from 1916. Pitching looks weak as Vergil Link departed and R L Thompson may be limited by a strained arm. D D Chaplin works in the cage while D Tibbot shows promise as a raw pitcher.
Laurel Heights Sunday School team, American League champions, and St. Mark's Episcopal, National League winners, are slated for the fourth Inter-league game for the Sunday School basketball title at the YMCA tonight. The Laurel Heights club forfeited last Tuesday over an official, the committee upheld the referee, and will arrange a substitute team for Saturday if another forfeit occurs. If Laurel Heights forfeits again, an exhibition will be played with the YMCA representative team.
The Meadowbrook Club hosts the eighth annual indoor track and field carnival with over 1100 athletes from 100 schools colleges and clubs across the country. Key events include the presidents cup 660 yard race and top contenders Yale Boston A A C Irish American A C New York A C and more.
Lawrence Kan March 10 A new type of women's basketball is created by Dr James Naismith originator of basketball and Helen Pratt at the University of Kansas. The game uses a single center line with guards and forwards separated to opposite sides. Guards and centers may throw goals, unlike under the old rules, to provide a uniform court demanded by high schools.
President and Manager Joe Tinker and the Columbus American Association baseball club's first squad left Columbus on Saturday for spring training in Pine Bluff Arkansas.
Ithaca Feb 10 Changes forecast in Cornell varsity junior varsity and freshman crews after key oarsmen become ineligible or unavailable. G A Worn leaves rowing for an instructor post, John Collyer dedicates time to coaching, A A Cushing ruled ineligible, J E Brickerbolt barred by faculty rule, forcing Coach Collyer to revise varsity boats ahead of the inlet. Charles E Courtney will delay to April 6 for his first look at crews.
Harvard manager P M Geraghty unveiled the spring and summer plan with a Southern trip starting April 16. Captain Pfaffman will call for players around April 1, trials will select a four man squad, and the varsity schedule continues with Amherst and Dartmouth home dates and key road matches through June 2.
Chick Gandil, first baseman, signed with the Chicago Americans after being purchased from Cleveland. The deal followed a Mineral Wells Texas training camp dispatch and pitted Gandil against an extra $1000 demand before agreeing to terms.
Outfielder Robbie Roth, who had been holding out, joined the Cleveland American League squad at their training camp in New Orleans on Friday.
Tommy O'Toole of Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania knocked out Freddie Anderson of Vancouver Washington in the sixteenth round of a scheduled twenty round boxing match in El Paso Texas. Charter and corporate notices filed in Austin list D A Taylor Dry Goods Celina Collin County and Hoyle Rarick Clothing Dallas with capital stock figures. Amended and dissolution filings accompany notices for Marathon Oil and Development San Antonio Scottish Rite Cathedral and several other Texas entities.
Governor Ferguson names James Cornell of Sutton County to serve as judge of the new Eighty third District Court. The district includes Sutton Edwards Kimball Crockett and Pecos counties. An inventor patents a muzzle that opens only when a rooster tilts its head back.
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