San Antonio to Host A's 1912 Spring Training
Connie Mack brings the 1912 World Series champion Philadelphia Athletics to San Antonio for spring training starting late February. Fans will meet Home Run Baker and Chief Bender, see top players in action, and learn how the A's defended their title. Mack chose the city for its climate and club facilities with Texas league approval.
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Gates
Detroit Tigers
Alamo City
Connie Mack
Baker
Bender
Athletics
Mack
Texas
Texas League
San Anaga
United States
Tigers
Savannah
Mackevi- Gently
Lowther Adds High Inning Mark In Turner League Action
In Turner league play Lowther defeats Dunham 314 to 286 in a two game set. Welker and Zuercher star for Lowther while Dunham’s Zuercher again leads in the second game. Baylor track men prep for Cotton Palace and San Antonio fair meets under Coach Glaze with over forty candidates and stars like Ewing Blair Bell Ellis and Cobb set to return.
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Gutzeit
Gloeckner
Lowther
Dunham
Nio
Ashbacher
Zuercher
Baylor
Waco
Tex
Glaze
San Antonio
Ewing
Blair
Bell
Tom Ellis
Bracken
Morris
Hicks
Jenkins
Williams
Speed
Calloway
Penrod
Tiner
Cobb and Simmons
Rounds Ups and Twenty second Infantry to play practice game
Two squads in the winter league open next month schedule a Sunday morning practice on the infantry post diamond at 10 o clock. The Round Ups will use Galm and Gerhardt as batters with Oppett or Creekbaum likely to pitch for the Twenty second. A fast game is expected as both teams are in good trim.
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Twenty-second Infantry
Infantry
Galm
Gerhardt
Oppett
Creekbaum
Households Set for Last Appearance at Krisch Park
The Households announce their final appearance of the season in a Sunday double-header at Krisch park starting 2 30 p m. They have had a successful season and claim the city championship, though the title is disputed.
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Krisch Park
Eleventh Cavalry to Play Infantry on Upper Post Grid
The Eleventh Cavalry football team will meet the Twenty second Infantry team tomorrow afternoon on the upper post gridiron in the army football series. They will finish their schedule with a game against the Third Cavalry next Wednesday at 3 30 o'clock.
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Eleventh Cavalry
Infantry
Army
Third Cavalry
Official Figures Show Why Athletics Won
Philadelphia October 27 Frank Baker the Athletics third baseman led at bat in the world series six games with .375 average Barry of the Athletics followed at .368 oat is third with .304 The Athletic team batting average is .249 Two Philadelphia players had perfect fielding averages Lord and Davis Captain Doyle Crandall Meyers Mathewson and Snodgrass Meyers each had perfect fielding for the Giants Giants team batting average .175 Only two Giants players appeared in all six games with perfect fielding Murray had no hit and .625 fielding The Athletics led in every department except base stealing where both teams tied at four
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Philadelphia
Frank Baker
Athletics
Giants
Barry
Oat
Lord
Davis
Crandall
Doyle
Chief Meyers
Herzog
Mathewson
Snodgrass
Meyers
Murray
Inter-Fraternity Athletic Council Elects Officers
The Inter-Fraternity Athletic Council met in Austin on Tuesday for the first meeting of the year. Fourteen fraternities were represented. Walter Dealy Phi Delta Theta was elected president Leonard Barrel Kappa Alpha vice president Harry Drought Kap pa Sigma was elected treasurer. Board members named include Buford Long Delta Tau Delta Forrest Dix San Antonio Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Henry Wom ble Sigma Chi. The board will set a football season schedule with all games after the season ends and plans to award a trophy to the winning team.
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Austin
Tex
Inter- Fraternity
Walter Dealy
Phi Delta Theta
Leonard Barrel
Kappa Alpha
Harry Drought
San Antonio
Kappa Sigma
Messrs
Buford Long
Delta Tau Delta
Forrest Dix
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Henry Womble
Sigma Chi
Menominee Horses Burned in Suspected Arson Case
A report notes men are charged with burning a carload of horses at Menominee after selling them for $30 each and insuring them for $150. The horses were shipped in stock cars to an unspecified point and the cars were then set on fire.
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Menominee
Dresses dog as baby on train to beat railroad rule
Laura Wentworth of 2012 Broadway dressed her Pomeranian Rangle in infant clothes to travel from Boston to New York in a parlor car. The dog barked when a friend triggered the disguise, but Wentworth carried Rangle off at Grand Central with baby attire concealed.
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Laura Wentworth
Broadway
New York Dispatch
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Boston
New York
Miss Wentworth
Rangle
Grand Central Station
Prize drawing ad scheme proposer eyes matrimonial prize
William A Cockrell launches a lottery style offer promising a prize of marriage or ten dollars back to the winner as a fund raising gimmick. The Cripple Creek report says the drawing will occur mid next month.
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William A. Cockrell
Cripple Creek Dispatch
Wooden leg rescue and court verdicts in city tales
A newsdealer named Charles Cobb with a wooden leg was helped home after a street collision with a Kingsbridge car. He previously lost a leg in 1870 in Fonda New York. Nearby stories include Hank Hoss being acquitted on mule theft and a judge joking about a wrongful guilty verdict and hanging.
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Charles Cobb
East One Hundred and Twenty-third Street
Cobb
Fonda
Hank Hoss
Disease germs found in human hair factories under oath
Dr. Charles T. Graham Rogers, medical examiner, testified before the state factory investigation commission in Manhattan that workers in human hair factories face exposure to diseases including tuberculosis and digestive ailments. He warned that scalp cuts could transmit germs via hair puffing, and urged installing exhaust ventilation at small cost to remedy the hazard.
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Charles T. Graham Rogers
State Department of Labor
State Factory Investigation Commission
Manhattan
New York Dispatch
Rogers
Burn Horses and Collect Fraud Case Shocks Wisconsin
Two men, Phillip Levy and Abe Krueger, were arrested at 822 South Leavitt Street on charges of obtaining thousands from fire insurance firms by burning worn out horses. They were sought in Jamestown New York and Minneapolis. Wisconsin Fire Marshal T. M. Purtell and Sheriff Kopp led the raid with Chicago detectives.
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Leavitt Street
Chicago
Phillip Levy
Phillip Leff
Abe Krueger
Max Rubenstein
T. M. Purtell
Wisconsin
Kopp
Dunn County
Wis
Krueger
Levy
Jamestown
N. Y
Minneapoge
Nershal Porte
Baptist Eleven Wins Special to the Light
In San Marcos on October 27 the Baptist academy defeated Fort Sam Houston Signal corps 6 to 0 at the academy field after a tough defensive battle. The academy finally broke through in the last quarter with Smith scoring and converting, after the army defense repelled earlier drives.
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Signal Corps
Baptist Academy
Signal Corps of
Fort Sam Houston
Army
Academy
Soldier Eleven
Baptist
Smith
R. Whale
Lippi
J. Whale
Fry
Callahan
Atwood
Benoit
McMahon
Twining
Thompson
Jones
Roberts
Lovelace
O'Meara
W. Jones
Anderson
Duncan
Davis
Mitchell
Pegues
Woods
Coxen
High School Triumphs Over Collegians in 41 to 0 game
The High School team defeated collegians 41 to 0 at St Louis. Officials included Referee Brother James Hart and umpire Sergeant O'Reilly. Scoring featured Bass with two touchdowns and Evans two, plus Cunningham with two and goals from touchdowns.
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Bow
R. EB
Mathews
Kuehn-Lawdon Ferguson
Enriques-Schere
Regan-Miller
Montague L. E. Bee
Sevecese Touche Cunningham-Reagan
Ai Evans Ossesesesi
Maurer-Kuehn Hloemyan
Seers
James Hart
St. Anthony College
O'Reilly
Eleventh Cavalry
Evans
Engineer Corps
Dent
Bass
Bee
Cunningham
Johnson Aims Probe Into World Series Ticket Scandal
Ban B Johnson, president of the American league, pushes for an official inquiry into the World Series ticket scandal in New York. He claims to hold evidence and may name an individual who helped scalpers. John T Brush denies involvement while August Herrmann and Thomas J Lynch weigh approval.
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Associated Press
New York
Ban B. Johnson
John T. Brush
New York Baseball Club
Brush
Johnson
August Herrmann
Thomas J. Lynch
Herrmann
Lynch
Giants to Be Banqueted After Pennant Triumph
New York fans led by Governor Dix and Mayor Gaynor will host a complimentary dinner for the Giants at an uptown hotel tomorrow night. Mathewson, McGraw and other team members will attend and hear remarks before aiming to clinch the world series with toasts.
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New York
Giants
Dix
Gaynor
Mathewson
McGraw
Lockhart Grid Battle With Gonzales Opens Season
Lockhart Texas October 27. The Lockhart high school football team will meet the Gonzales eleven on the latter's field today in the local eleven's first grid battle of the season. The local high school team will play the postponed basketball game with the Kyle five on Saturday November 4.
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Lockhart
Gonzales High
Tex
Kyle Five
Gonzales Eleven
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