Off in the Fishing Season and Tales from Longfellow Creek
A first person reminiscence from Dawn Sloan recounts a Sunday fishing trip in Longfellow Creek where a snapped line leads to a quick success then a haul of twenty four trout. Louis Patarson shares riverside luck chasing trout and bass near Georgetown. Hunsand Moran details a humorous haul in Auburn Washington with a shoe and corset found in the line. Harry Gowan promotes Laurelhurst fishing and Northwest Fly Bait Casting Club membership with local lore.
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Longfellow Creek
Seattle
Fly Ue
Prof. Kincaid
Grebe
Harry Gowan
Colman Building
Freddie Welsh Maintains Lightweight Crown Ties
In Madison Square Garden Benny Leonard outboxed Freddie Welsh, winning nine of ten rounds. Welsh, still billed as lightweight champion, weighs 136.4 pounds to Leonard's 132. The scene hints at a looming shift in the lightweight division and ongoing chatter about a real title bout.
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Jawn
Welsh
Benny Leonard
Madison Sre
New York
Benny
Fred
Fredis
Coun
Umpire Billy Evans The Hard Working Baseball Figure
The veteran major league umpire Billy Evans keeps a busy winter schedule as a writer and observer of the game. After Cornell and a stint in newspapers he builds a winter livelihood, writing and compiling notes and diaries that feed his Sunday baseball features. Evans works from a Cleveland home den filled with game cartoons and mementos and is married with a four year old son who likely will choose a different career.
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Billy Evans
Billy
Cornell University
Cleveland
Fach
Evans
Evan
Leonard Beats Welsh In Ten Round Fight
In New York Benny Leonard defeated Freddie Welsh over ten rounds with Welsh lasting until only the fifth round. Leonard controlled the pace throughout.
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New York
Benny Leonard
Freddie Welsh
Welsh
Leonard
Pricks and Concretes Clash in Annual Ball Game
Princeton wins intercollegiate gymnastic championships in Philadelphia as the annual battle between local bulldog teams draws to a close.
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Princeton
Philadelphia
Seattle Games at Home Schedule Promises Eighty Matches
Northwestern league teams will play eighty baseball games at Dugdale Park this season. The schedule opens with Butte and LeMtie in late April and features Vancouver, Spokane, and Tacoma visiting Seattle across May to September.
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Seattle
Vancouver
Dugdale Park
Butte
LeMtie
Spokane
Tacoma
Great Falls
Broadway High Opens With 12-9 Win Over Seattle College
Broadway edges Seattle College 12 to 9 at Lincoln park playfield in the season opener. Lincoln catches Ashby debuts as catcher. both teams show erratic play. Coach Powers tests track material at Lincoln park track in a handicap meet to gauge potential for the season. Coaches eye church leagues, with Emmanuel Lutheran recruiting Broadway players for a team.
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Seattle College
L Lincoln Park
Powers
Lincoln Park
Immanuel Lutheran
Complete Market Report Today Corrected by J W Godwin Co
Market prices and lists for fruits vegetables meats and grains. Reads like a detailed daily exchange of wholesale figures including artichokes cabbages citrus berries and potatoes with producer prices for kegs poultry veal pork and livestock and country grain rates across Western states and Puget Sound regions.
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J. W. Godwin & Co
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Gable
New
Florida
Bae- Met Ofbeer
Rome
Ereen
Walla Walla
Got
Ceeese
White River Oo
Yakima Furbanke
India
Baseball Scores From December Games
Baseball results list several doubleheaders with scores and locations. Washington beat Brooklyn 4 to 0, Jacksonville defeated Boston N 4 to 3, Houston beat Giants 8 to 1, Beaumont over Detroit 15 to 5, and Memphis defeated Cincinnati 11 to 4.
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Brooklyn
Jacksonville
Boston
Philadelphia
Houston
Giants
Beaumont
Detroit
Memphis
Yankees
Cincinnati
Grammar League Opens Season in Early Weekend Play
The Gram mar School baseball league starts its season with opening games on Saturday. Twenty two contests were scheduled for the first day of play.
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Grammar School Ball League
Indians Open Season With Hectic Train Schedule
Manager Williams reveals a packed schedule starting with Gonzaga and including Oregon Aggies Lewiston Idaho Idaho and W. C. C. plus a game against the Chicago colored team to follow.
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Williams
Indians
Gonzaga
Oregon Aggies
Lewileton
Idaho
University of Idaho
Chicago
Big rush as fishing season opens with optimistic reports
On opening day Saturday, professionals and workers alike rushed to nearby streams amid mixed reports of good catches. Game officials note many lakes swollen and largely unfishable, with trout stocking planned near Aberdeen and licensing over 400 sold Friday.
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Issak Walton
Star
Butte Signs Ed Kippert for Out Field in Home Debut Season
The Northwestern leaguer Ed Kippert has signed with the local club to play in the out field. Work on the new ballpark progresses rapidly and should be ready well before the opening game.
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Butte
Ed Kippert
Six Old Timers Join Stanford Crew for Seattle Race
Six oarsmen who rowed in the Poughkeepsie regatta last year travel north with the Stanford crew as it faces the University of Washington next Saturday in Seattle.
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Stanford
Palo Alto
U. of Weight
Seattle
Players Get Chance Tryout With Winston’s Chauncey Wright
Manager Winston will field the Chauncey Wright squad on the Walla Walla playfield Sunday at 10 o clock. Players seeking a chance to try out should be on hand.
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Winston
Chauncey Wright
Walla Walla
Crowds View Dogs at Canine Exhibit
Yesterday's dog show at First and Seneca drew large crowds as nearly all breeds were judged. Anita Baldwin's exhibit won multiple blue red and green ribbons and heads to California with honors.
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Seneca
Anita Baldwin
California
Indoor marks expected at Far Western meet
EXPECT NEW MARKS AS FAR WESTERN INDOOR MEET HELD IN OREGON STATE ARMORY. New indoor marks anticipated today at the Far Western indoor track and field meet hosted by Oregon Agricultural College at the Oregon State armory.
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Corvallis
Oregon Agricultural College
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