Owners run ten day meet at Gulf Coast Fair Grounds
The Mobile Carnival Association will operate the Gulf Coast Fair Grounds race meet for ten days after a Tuesday meeting. Five more horses entered for Wednesday. Tuesday results list winners in six furlong to mile races with purses of 200 dollars. In New York, Harry Wills from New Orleans outpointed Sam Langford in ten rounds.
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Gulf Coast Fair Ground Track
Mobile Carnival Association
Carnival Association
Elizabeth Lees
Baker
Asparagus Sam
Burns
Old Charter
Manders
Little Gink
Hedge Rose
Phillips
Modesta Boy
Margaret O
Batouch
Belle Terre
Walgee
Moulton
Sureen
Insurance Man
Examiner
J. W. O'Shea
Bill Deichman
Col. Fred
Cotton Top
J. D. Suggs
Wild Rose
Modesto Boy
Meelicka
Lady London
J. B. Harrell
Mayme W
Sureon
Puck
Pierre Dumag
Balgee
Ben
Shrewsbury
Milton Roble
Perth Rock
Mobile
Wills
Langford
New York
Harry Wills
New Orleans
Sam Langford
Boston
Mack Eyes Card Index For A's 1930s Season Preview
Harold Johnson compiles a score card as American League fans anticipate the Athletics season. The piece notes spring training in Jacksonville and a mixed talent list including Stellbauer Murphy Pick Perkins Nabors Myers Ray and McGillicuddy forecasting a tough pennant race.
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Harold Johnson
Athletics
Little Strangery Galore
Jacksonville
Connie Mack
Quaker City
Stellbauer
Catcher Murphy
Pick
Perkins
Mackman
Raleigh
North Carolina
Nabors
Myers
Ray
Mr. McGillicuddy
Stars Shine Across Baseball Careers Says Fielder Jones
Fielder Jones argues the average player lasts six years under depletion methods, while true stars endure 15 seasons or more. He notes Plank Wagner and Crawford as examples who remained elite into their mid to late 30s and 40s, stressing self care as key to longevity.
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Fielder Jones
St. Louis Browns
Jones
Plank
Wagner
Crawford
Mathewson
Home Run Baker Turns to Reado From Trappe Md
From Trappe Maryland comes word that the home run king J Franklin Baker of the Yankees recently entered a stall and carried out a young bull that resisted efforts by Charlie Herzog and Grandpa Baker. Bill Donovan hopes the Marylander can lift the Yankees into first division.
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J. Franklin Baker
Yankee
Trappe
Charlie Herzog
Grandpa Baker
Bill Donovan
Yankees
McGowin-Lyons Rally Tops Spring Hill in Nineteen Innings
In a marathon 19 inning game McGowin-Lyons defeated Spring Hill Billies as Moulton and Laird delivered key two base hits to break the deadlock in the final frame. The teams meet again Saturday afternoon at Lyons Park for another showdown. In the separate events Newark hosts A U gymnastic nationals May 13 as part of Newark’s 250th anniversary celebration and Austrian billiardist Jacob Klinger wins a bracket defeating Appleby while Gardner leads the field.
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Spring Hill Billies
Greer
Welch
Moulton
Davis
Laird
Lyon's Park
McGowin-Lyons
P. Moulton
R. Moulton
Ceeseesee
W. Laird
Witdleesie Wiestoasee
WEAEY
TATA
Goodman
Coulson
Cceccesesevereese
Spring Hill Bikes
R.H.E. Rowhite Tbc
Haevrdreeas
Seeeses
Guilard
Csss Peers
Eo OO
Dehlereen
Seacccassees
Newark
New York
Amateur Athletic Union of the United States
N. J
Wilson
Jacob Klinger
Austria
Francis S. Appleby
Columbia University
Young Appleby
Edward W. Gardner
Gardner
Charles Heddon
Dowagiac
Mich
Nelson divorce decree follows desertion charge
Chicago March 8 Rattling Nelson former lightweight champion was granted a divorce from Fay King a Kansas City and Dover newspaper artist Desertion was charged by Nelson and his wife
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Bat Nelson
Chicago
Rattling Nelson
Fay King
Kansas City
Dover
Nelson
Pugilist Willie Gibbs Dies After Poision Overdose
Willie Gibbs a featherweight boxer in Philadelphia died from poisoning ruled as an overdose of a drug. He collapsed in a saloon and never regained consciousness. Witnesses Joseph Gold and Samuel Berens were held on $500 bail each awaiting coroner action. Gibbs born Daniel Sharp boxed with Kid Williams and Jimmy Welsh. his wife resides in Memphis Tennessee.
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Philadelphia
Willie Gibbs
Joseph Gold
Samuel Berens
Gibbs
Daniel Sharp
Kid Willians
Jimmy Welsh
Joe Mandot
Tommy O'Toole
Memphis
Tenn
Harvard's Football Squad Suffers Blow
Cambridge Mass March 8 Harvard's 1916 football squad loses three key players Captain-elect J A Gilman guard Thomas H Enwright and W J Boles to withdrawal from college for failing mid year exams Gilman and Boles barred from representing Harvard even if readmitted Enwright may return if he passes required summer study and September exams
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Mass
Harvard
J. A. Gilman
Thomas H. Enwright
W. J. Boles
Gilman
Boles
Enwright
Brickley and Mahan
Squam Lake
N. H
Gibbons to Box Jeff Smith for St Paul Debut
Jeff Smith the New York middleweight who stopped Les Darcy will be Mike Gibbons next opponent in a ten round war in St Paul on March 17. Smith has boxed ten rounds with Gibbons before and has found success in European and Australian arenas for a $30,000 guarantee.
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Jeff Smith
New York
Les Darcy
Mike Gibbons
St. Paul
Phantom
A. C
Mike
Jeff
Smith
Grid Hero Ties Grid to Piano Lessons
Johnny Maulbetsch the 1916 Michigan back signs up for six weeks of piano instruction and holds nightly impromptu recitals in Ann Arbor. The story notes his shift toward subdued behavior and says music may charm the savage breast.
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Johnny Maulbetsch
Michigan
Wolverine
Ann Arbor
Food for Fandom Adds and Suspends Chattanooga Team Members
The Chattanooga base ball club of the Southern League added Charles Smith formerly of the Chicago Cubs and Wilson Collins ex Vanderbilt football and Boston Nationals outfielder. Three players were suspended Rivington Bisland Jap Efird and Rudy Somers. Herbert Kelly released by Pittsburgh. Phil Douglas will not return to the Cubs staff.
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Charles Smith
Chicago Cubs
Wilson Collins
Vanderbilt
Boston Nationals
Rivington Bisland
Jap Efird
Atlanta
Rudy Somers
Federal League
Barney Dreyfuss
Pittsburgh
Herbert Kelly
Kelly
Pirates
University of Notre Dame
Mobile
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