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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
7
The Bay Minette basketball team travels to Mobile to face City Bank at the Y M C A Saturday night at eight. Both squads are evenly matched and eager for a hard fought contest expected to be a season highlight.
Polish wrestling champion Zbyszko arrived in New York aboard the Ryndam for a tour of America. His first match will be against Charles Cutler in Boston on Christmas Day, with future bouts in major cities of the United States and Canada. He will cancel engagements if Frank Gotch accepts a world heavyweight title race.
Sewanee athletic authorities negotiate with the University of Virginia and the University of Texas for next fall. A Texas game may be played in Dallas on October 25 during the state fair. Virginia talks have not progressed, but Sewanee players favor both proposed contests.
The Y M C A in Mobile anticipates a large turnout for the season opener against Vanderbilt next Monday night on the home court. Local fans expect a fast, hard contest with strong Vanderbilt play and six hundred seats arranged in the Y M C A gallery. Local press notes the four-city circuit is strong this year and Mobile hopes for an upset performance.
At St Josephs gym on Thursday night two tight games ended with the Grays 19 to 21 to the Odds and the Blues 14 to 19 to the Yellows. Captain Bailey led the Odds, Frank Midgett refereed, and timer Mr. Gass assisted.
In Pittsburg Koji Yamada defeated Ora Morningstar 400 to 207 on 18.2 balk line billiards. Morningstar is the world’s champion. this is the second win for Yamada this week. The tournament purse is $1,000 with Morningstar and George Slosson also competing. play ends Saturday night.
Rumor says Cincinnati seeks waivers on Grover Lauder and Harry Chapman to trade them to Louisville for Mordecai Brown. Manager Tinker wants Brown for Cincinnati. William Neal of Louisville may approve. Brown reportedly offered an American League umpiring role as well.
Nashville officials announce the Tennessee Kentucky and Northern Railroad will connect the Tennessee Central to the Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pacific at Steans Kentucky and to the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis at Sparta Tennessee. The line aims to extend Southern Railway into Nashville and will tap virgin timber mineral and agricultural lands.
John D Rockefeller, long a golf devotee, played the nine hole course at Pocantico Hills in 43 minutes. He said he felt better than ever and enjoyed the round with fellow club members on a sunny day at Tarrytown.
Ten junior department boys of the Y M C A will ride bicycles from Daphne to Pensacola next Friday and play junior basketball teams along the way. Director J H Wright leads the trip, taking a bay boat to Daphne, then continuing Friday morning to Pensacola with games planned in Daphne Pensacola and back to Mobile by Tuesday.
New York action saw local featherweight Johnny Dundee outpoint Eddie Morgan of England over ten rounds. Morgan led early rounds but Dundee grew rugged and wore him down, setting up a title clash with Johnny Kilbane in Los Angeles this April.
Washington Dec 20 The Navy Department accepted the resignation of First Lieutenant Ward Ellis of the Marine Corps for the good of the service to take effect Saturday He is at Mare Island Cal and faced court martial on charges of failure to pay debts Ellis was commissioned May 13 1908 from Kansas
The Alabama Supreme Court affirms Ransom Underwood’s 35 year sentence for killing William Tuggle near Corcova in Walker County. A juror stating an opposition to capital punishment was held as having a fixed opinion against the death penalty, allowing the state to challenge for cause.
In Shreveport Louisiana on December 20 A E Westcott a former Illinois Central passenger conductor and recent Kansas City here n employee swallowed two ounces of carbolic acid in a rooming house and died shortly after, authorities report the incident as a suicide.
Still preparing for war in Cetinje Montenegro reports Austro-Hungarian forces ramping up. Daily arrivals of troops in Dalmatia, ships converted to transports, and extensive fortifications under construction.
Notice of appeal was filed yesterday by counsel for Gyp the Blood Dago Frank Whitey Lewis and Lefty Louie condemned to death for Herman Rosenthal's murder. The filing stays execution pending higher court decision as the January 4 week deadline looms.
The advertisement describes a hardworking woman with kidney and bladder troubles and fatigue. It promotes Foley Kinney Pills as a cure claiming Mrs. Lena Beyer of Frederic St Auburn says three boxes restored her health. The copy urges trying the medicine and names Van Antwerp Drug Corporation as advertiser.
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