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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1911
Page
8
Hortense de Bris urges mothers to properly train children for safety amid traffic and bed dangers. She questions parental responsibility and highlights the high risk of sleep-related accidents, urging action to prevent harm to the next generation.
The Associated Press reports in San Francisco on November 30 that Pacey McFarland and Harlem Tommy Murphy faced a tough comeback after surgery. Both fighters were described as unlikely to regain their championship luster.
Promoter James Coffroth noted for sunshine saw clear skies as the 20 round bout between McFarland and Murphy took center stage after Wolgast-Welsh was canceled due to illness. McFarland, a 10 to 4 favorite, aims to prove he can claim the championship by defeating Harlem Tommy Murphy in what experts expect to be a decisive contest.
In Indianapolis on November 29 Ray Bronson led from the start and dominated Tommy Howell through ten rounds at 145 pounds. Bronson landed freely after the first round as Howell struggled to mount an answer in the head and wind, delivering a decisive victory for the local favorite.
Auburn and the University of Georgia fought to a scoreless tie in Savannah in a fiercely contested game played yesterday. The result leaves both teams with hopes for stronger showings in upcoming matchups.
The San Antonio Motor Car Co offers 5 and 7 passenger autos at striking prices to clear stock before new arrivals. Fore doors electric lights and full equipment including Warner Speedometer and Prestolite tank are included. Your old car taken in exchange. See Frederick Murphey, Lawyer, 511-512 Hicks Building.
Sports briefs note several events including a San Antonio Motocycles race meeting at 2:30 PM, a Krisch Park winter league baseball game at 3, and scheduled games tonight led by Dunham and Gutzeit. Also listed are a Y M C A hare and hounds chase, a St Marys men Beeville game, Ling forfeiting two Turner league games, a Socials Thanksgiving bow, Albert Staudt high score 83, and Miss L Bonnet turkey winner with 55.
A tenant house fire in Gonzales at 8 o clock yesterday morning was quickly extinguished by the fire department with only slight loss. The notice also promotes Foley Kidney Pills as a remedy for backache headache nervousness and rheumatism linked to kidney trouble. Edwards King Drug Co. A. Coliman plumber. Both phones.
Robert MccRoy, secretary of the Boston American League club, announced the team will travel to Arkansas in February for spring practice. Also: The National Rifle Association announces the inter city indoor rifle shooting championship will begin the week ending December 23.
President Charles W. Murphy of the Chicago Nationals proposes a winter league with eight teams in Florida below the frost line to give the baseball recruit a better chance to show his worth as a player.
The Austrian Aero club issues pilot and aeronautics passes in nineteen languages, a record for polyglot documentation. This distinctive practice showcases the club's international reach and the multilingual needs of balloon pilots and aeronautists.
University of Texas and Oklahoma meet this afternoon at 3 30 on Clark field to decide the Southwest title. Both teams are fast and light, promising one of the season’s best games. Homecoming draws a record crowd as officials and lineups are noted for the annual clash.
A late November gridiron clash in Dallas pits Austin College and Southwestern University in a decisive for third place in Texas football. Weather cold and clear with probable lineups listing Prince, Mickle, Purcell, Barcus, Thomas, Davis, Henderson, and Neilson among starters.
Wolgast's bout with Welsh is off indefinitely per manager Tom Jones. Vernon club boss McCarey has signed Willie Richie, Packey McFarland's training partner, to fight Welsh, a change Welsh has agreed to.
At Atlanta Teeleh teams meet Clemson, and Alabama faces Davidson in Birmingham. Other games include Mercer versus Howard in Macon, Vanderbilt against Sewanee in Nashville, Mississippi against A M of Mississippi in Jackson, Texas A M versus Baylor in College Station, South Carolina versus Citadel in Charleston, L S A versus Arkansas in Little Rock, Virginia against North Carolina in Richmond, V P I versus North Carolina A and M in Norfolk, Tulane versus W and in New Orleans, and Texas against Oklahoma in Austin.
In fair weather Vanderbilt and Sewanee meet in Nashville this evening. Vanderbilt alumni from many states attend. The lineups include Morrison, Mather, Farrish, Storey, Brown, Collins, Gilles, Eckert, and Hardage among others with officials Ted Coy, Wagner, and McCalle noted.
Savannah November 30. Speed demons expect the Prize race of 419 miles to see records fall as cars and tires endure stress. David Bruce Brown and rivals Marmon Lozier fight for the best bets with Fiat drivers Bragg and Brown among favorites to lower the current mark of 70.55 minutes per mile.
Chicago featherweight Spike Kelly lands a haymaker in the eighth round to KO Pete Knessy of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in Windsor Ontario. Shaughnessy showed the better form among the featherweights as the bout ended.
Special to The SIG New York November 30 Al Palzar weighed 221 pounds while Tom Kennedy weighed in lighter. Kennedy pressed the attack through most of the bout, scoring with repeated blows to the head and body and staying in control despite Palzar’s rallies in earlier rounds.
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