Billy Webber Sees Strong Juarez Fair Racing Outlook
Billy Webber the racing secretary arrives in Antonio and reports a promising Juarez fair meeting with 100 plus thoroughbreds housed, many new faces traveling from Kentucky and elsewhere. The Texas Futurity for two-year-olds carries a $1000 purse plus $500 added, with entrants like Lady Rankin Free Plum Creek Zandia El Pato and Calethampian.
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Juarez
Billy Webber
Antonio
Mas
Webber
Jimmy Gray
Arch Oldham
Plum Creek
Zandla
Earls Court
Shreveport
Marlin
Mexico City
Texas
el Pato
G. Parke
Kyle
Bunbury & Co
Calethampian
J. Stephenson
Dallas
Wilkenson & Co
Pap Rebo
Tom Fleming
N. Moore
Red Brownfield
Tom Wilson
L. Kuykendall
Ike Striker
Nip Reynolds
Exhibition balk line billiard match draws big crowd
Burt Cutler the Yankee expert, now at the Plaza, defeats G N Gorham 200 to 33 in an Alexander's exhibition. Turner league to host a double header tonight with Owls vs Kammers and Big Five vs RoundUps. Also Corning to bowl Gloeckner in the Turner series. Texas league park offers eyed for league play and Friday league meeting at 8. Post All Stars versus Eleventh Cavalry set for 3 30 at Texas League Park with Barnes Moyes Fouts and Dugosh on hand.
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Alexander
Burt Cutler
Plaza
G. N. Gorham
Turner Basketball League
Owls
Kammers
Big Five
Texas League Park
Post All-Stars
Eleventh Cavalry
Barnes
West Texas
Moyes
Marshall Training School
Fouts
Marshall
Dugosh
Track set for record-smashing opening day at the fair
Groth Ramsey Pendergrast Washear T Smith E Smith Speed R Lowe Brooks Moore and others eye a rainless opening day. Officials say the track will be in prime condition and records are likely to fall as speed events draw crowds. Quarter horses also entered to entertain fans of fast dashes.
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Groth
Ramsey
Pendergrast
Washear
T. Smith
E. Smith
Speed
R. Lowe
Brooks
Moore
Baseball Players Barred From Vaudeville and Newspapers
Major league baseball players would be banned from vaudeville performances in the off season and from writing about world series games for newspapers if a resolution by August Herrmann passes. The measure aims to reduce player criticism that affects the game. Also noted is Manila joining the East Asiatic steamers fee schedule next year.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
August Herrmann
National Commission
Purse Doubled for Indianapolis Motor Speedway Race
The Indianapolis Speedway directors announce a $50,000 purse for the 1912 Memorial Day 500 mile race with a 30 car limit and $20,000 added by accessory manufacturers. Entry blanks will be sent to manufacturers as conditions are published. Ray Haroun won the first running in a Marmon.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Ray Harroun
Over Three Hundred Dogs Expected at Beach Show
The international fair dog show will feature over 300 entries with fifty arriving from El Paso. J M Henderson of Dallas oversees the entries while Dr G W Clayton from El Paso will judge, noting a busy judging schedule since September. Mrs Evers Johnson leads the local show and all floor space will be utilized.
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el Paso
J. M. Henderson
Dallas
G. W. Clayton
Clayton
San Mateo
Cal
Prehistoric Skeleton Found in Arkansas
An exchange notes a discovery of a prehistoric human skeleton with a skull two inches thick in Arkansas and likens it to an unlikely link with baseball as a humorous aside.
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Arkansas
Sheppard Disharged From New York Militia
Melvin W. Sheppard, noted as the world's greatest distance runner, is dishonorably discharged from the Twenty second regiment of the New York state militia after court martial proceedings. He had served nearly four years and competed in over a hundred military athletic meets. The discharge cites missed drills and unpaid fines as the cause of his trouble.
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Associated Press
New York
Melvin W. Sheppard
Twenty-second
New York State Militia
Sheppard
Songbird Soup Punished: Pazzo Faces Fine in Meramec Case
Pazzo accused of hunting two bluejays a thrush a catbird a yellowhammer a rain crow and a hummingbird in Meramec Highlands. He faces 175 dollar fine under wildlife law but pleaded ignorance. He remains jailed in Clayton awaiting Friday trial while local theater ads interrupt with lighter notes.
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Pazzo
New York Times
Meramec Highlands
Clayton
Indiana schools to replace football with outdoor basketball
Laporte Indiana reports that public schools in many cities will substitute outdoor basketball for football under new rules. The Indiana Association of High School Principals has banned football and ordered abandonment in nearly all state schools.
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Associated Press
Laporte
Ind
Indiana
Indiana Association of High School Principals
Girl Hurt in Evansville Football Scrimmage
Irene Butrum suffered a broken arm after a tackle during a local public school scrimmage marking what is believed to be the season’s first girls football injury. Evansville girls play football daily.
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Associated Press
Evansville
Ind
Irene Butrum
Texas Oklahoma promoters seek Trendall Waugh Thanksgiving bout
Efforts by Texas and Oklahoma fight promoters aim to match Harry Trendall of St. Louis and Bobby Waugh of Fort Worth in Oklahoma on Thanksgiving Day. Trendall wired a friend that he will reach Texas on November 18.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Texas
Oklahoma
Harry Trendall
St. Louis
Bobby Waugh
Trendall
Koch Team Extends Lead In Turner Bowling League
Koch team widened its advantage by winning both games against Lowther in close scores. Weylich led in captain’s absence during a six-pin rally in the first game, while Lowther Riedner and Pfeiffer led Lowther’s side. The second game ended in a tie before Koch rallied to win by ten pins with Keylich Menger Kk Gutzeit Riedner and Pfeiffer starring.
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Koch
Lowther
Weylich
Riedner
Pfeiffer
Keylich
Menger
Gutzeit
Powlers
Carlisle Football Team Lists Twenty Two Tribes In Roster
Carlisle Pa November 1 Twenty two tribes are represented on the Carlisle football squad with the Cheyennes in the majority five players. Other tribes include Crow Pottawatomi Mission Kiowa Bannock Cherokee Pawnee St. Regis Oneida Sac and Fox Navajo Apache Caddo Soshone Winnebago Klamath Tuscarora Chippewa Sioux Ute and Seneca.
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Associated Press
Carlisle
Pottawatomi
Mission
Pawnee
St. Regis
Oneida
Sac and Fox
Klamath
Tuscarora
Texas league to host banquet for baseball delegates
The National Convention of Professional Baseball clubs will be entertained with an elaborate banquet by the Texas league in San Antonio on the night of Wednesday November 15. President Wilbur P. Allen and a local committee arranged the plans at the St Anthony hotel and invited fans to join the reception in Austin on November 14 when the delegates arrive by special train from St Louis.
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Texas League
Wilbur P. Allen
St. Anthony
Allen
H. E B. Hildebrand
John B. Carrington
Corpus Christi
Austin
St. Louis
San Antonio
Well Known Terrell Businessman Assaulted as Strikebreaker
Terre ll Tex Nov 1 W P Allen a well known local business man and railroad director bank cashier city commissioner and cotton dealer was assaulted in New Orleans last night after being mistaken for a strike breaker.
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Texas City
Asson Gatru Pitts
Terrell
Tex
W. P. Allen
New Orleans
Texas Midland Railroad
American National Bank
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