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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1929
Page
6
Walter Olson, a young farmer from Rio, Illinois, captured the national corn husking contest in Platte City Missouri, defeating peers and earning the top prize.
A class test on observation yields a memory joke as a boy recalls a butterfly made of clothespin and crepe paper. He writes down the item as a single phrase, calling it "Tishy paper on a stick."
Boston Red Sox scout Pat Monahan narrates a sunny Southland tale about Joe Engle of the Washington Senators. Engle and Walter Johnson prize their hunting dogs, but Engle’s dog repeatedly jumped from the car and fled home, prompting two searches before the dog stayed put. The hunter’s confession ends with the dog’s apparent wit.
William Wrigley Jr credited with about 1 000 000 profit from National League games this year. Cubs home attendance reached 1 485 000, 200 000 above 1927 record, with at least 1 750 000 net at Wrigley Field and 437 500 to visiting clubs. Road admissions exceeded 500 000 yielding about 125 000. Running expenses totaled 400 000.
John P. Kelleher of Brookline Massachusetts, a former major league star, is named Brown University baseball coach to replace Glenn Dubuc. He will sign a one year contract and lead the team next spring after serving as Harvard's assistant coach last season.
A collage of sports notes covers port Nores St Louis with 86 municipal soccer teams, lacrosse growth in the south, Georgia Tech and Duke adopting lacrosse, and historic tidbits on Davis and Elkins without timeouts in a New York game. It lists pro and college figures from Princeton’s Bill Roper to Clark Griffith, plus Yale and Navy connections, and a signing move for Walter Holke with Hazleton.
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