Return bout set Wolgast to face Nelson at Lyceum
All Wolgast the former lightweight champion will meet Battling Nelson the man who took his title in a return match at the Lyceum Athletic club in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Wolgast has trained for two years and is said to be in his best condition despite recent guardian appointment and financial appeals. Nelson plans an exhibition with Phil Salvatore of Sacramento after the bout.
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Los Angeles
Wolgast
Battling Nelson
Lyceum Athletic Club
Middle West
Vernon
Nelson
Jack Doyle
Dovile
Phil Salvatore
Sacramento
Calif
Fast contest ends in a tie in City Twilight league
The K C s and Store Department teams tied 1 1 last evening at Short Line grounds. Um pire Hawkins called the game in the fifth due to darkness. Putzier pitched for the K C s and Erickson for the railroaders. Each side had three hits in a muddy field. The Wholesalers and Fairview play Friday night.
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Hawkins
Putzier Force K. C.s
Erickson
Railroaders
Hall
Haskings
the Wholesalers
Fairview
Short Line Game and AR EB Dance Tonight
A fast game is anticipated this evening when the Back Shop apprentice Boys team of the Short Line League meet at the OSL field. The A R E B club will also host a dance at 8 o clock in the MC A gym in honor of the apprentice boys with an invitation extended to all apprentices.
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Prentice Boys
L Jeague
Spug Myers Rises From Newsboy to Boxing Champion
James "Spug" Myers, a Pocatello junior welterweight, rose from a newspaper carrier to a rising star after impressing Gate City Athletic Club promoter C. B. Stair. He has fought sixty five bouts with no defeats and will defend his intermountain junior welter title on June 14 against Johnny Trambitas of Portland in Brady Park. Myers previously defeated Bobby Michaels in a famous foul victory last July 4.
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Gynminasium
James “Spug
Myers
Pocatello
Intermountain States
Johnny Trambitas
Portland
Oregon
Brady Park
Spug
Bobby Michaels
New York
Veteran boxers in Pocatello seek bout for Kid Hagen
Romeo Hagen, a veteran pugilist, visits Pocatello to arrange a fight for his brother Kid Hagen who fights under the name Kid Zoir. Kid Hagen, a Navy veteran, is to arrive June 14 and Romeo hopes to secure a match. He also predicts Dempsey will beat Gibbons at Shelby on July 4.
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Puglist
Pocatello
Hagen
Kid
Kid Zoir
Kid Hagen
Romeo
Butte
Seattle
Dempsey
Tommy Gibbons
Shelby
Recovered From Stomach Trouble With Foley Cathartic
A. L. Lyons of Dayton Ohio reports three years of stomach trouble ending in eight weeks bed rest. Doctors gave little help until Foley Cathartic Tablets were used, restoring appetite and health. The ad claims relief from sour stomach headaches biliousness and other digestive disorders. Sold everywhere.
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A. L. Lyons
Dayton
Ohio
Foley
Adv
Baltimore Featherweight Title Draw Fails to Decide
Baltimore based fighter Bob Garcia the army featherweight champion and English challenger Tom my Noble fought 12 rounds to a draw. The bout featured stiff exchanges and no clear winner as the judges settled for a split result.
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Baltimore
Bob Garcia
Army
Tommy Noble
Baseball scores and lineups from Wednesday games across major parks
A garbled recap lists lineups and scores from Wednesday games in Washington Boston Philadelphia New York Pittsburgh Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Salt Lake Sacramento San Francisco Vernon and Seattle with players such as Coveleskie Myatt Faber Schalk Hofmann Ruether Smith and O’Neil appearing in various rosters and results.
Regional Racing Meets and Championships Highlight Weekend Sports
Westchester Racing Association holds a Belmont Park meet while the Kentucky Jockey Club meets at Latonia and Dufferin Park hosts Toronto racing. Montreal Jockey Club opens in Montreal with Griscom Cup intercity matches at Chestnut Hill and Ontario women’s championships at Brantford. Other events include Metropolitan amateur championships at Mt. Vernon and Kentucky women’s championships in Louisville along with Ohio trapshooting and a Philadelphia Country Club polo tournament at Bala.
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Westchester Racing Association
Belmont Park
Kentucky Jockey Club
Latonia
Dufferin Park Jockey Club
Toronto
Montreal
Gibbons Arrives in Shelby to Train for Dempsey Fight
Tommy Gibbons, challenger to Jack Dempsey for the heavyweight title, has arrived with his family in Shelby Montana and will begin training tomorrow. He said he feels fine and is pleased with his quarters and prospects for winning the championship.
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Great Falls
Mont
Tommy Gibbons
Jack Dempsey
Shelby
Gibbons
Firpo Willard to Clash in 12-Round Heavyweight Tilt
Tex Rickard announced a July 12 card at Boyle's Thirty Acres headlined by Luis Angel Firpo of Argentina versus Jess Willard to determine a Dempsey title challenger. The undercard features two eight round bouts including Jim Kerman versus Cliff Kramer and Bob Fitzsimmons versus Tom Roper, with proceeds aiding a milk fund.
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Tex Rickard
Boyle
Thirty Acres
Luis Angel Firpo
Argentine
Jess Willard
Jack Dempsey
Floyd Johnson
Des Moines
Jack McAuliffe II
Detroit
Willard
Firpo
Yankee Stadium
Jim Kerman
Omaha
Cliff Kramer
Pacific Coast
You Bob Fitzsimmons
Newark
N. J
Tom Roper
Chicago
Cuban boxing figure offers Fierro to Face Firpo in Havana
Sam Tolon, a Havana boxing official, says Antolin Fierro, Cuba’s heavyweight champion, is available to oppose Lan Angel Firpo after Joe White was knocked out in a training bout by Stapislaus Frias. Firpo declined the match citing Fierro as dangerous.
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Cuba
Sam Tolon
Inregima
Antolin Fierro
Lan Angel Firpo
Joe White
Stapislaus Frias
Tolon
Firpo
Feliro
Italian Jack Herman to Meet Firpo in Nova bout replacement
Italian Jack Herman of Newark New Jersey was signed to replace the cancelled White Firpo match as Luis Angel Firpo’s opponent in a heavyweight bout in Na vana. The bout, postponed from last Sunday due to rain, will be held next Sunday.
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Titalian Jack Herman
Newark
N. J
Luis Angel Firpo
Navana
White Firpo
Detroit boxer suspended and fined by state boxing board
Detroit heavyweight Jack McAuliffe was suspended and fined 200 dollars by the state boxing commissioner for alleged poer a Martin O Grady. In Youngstown Ohio a rainstorm postponed a twelve round bout between Cowboy Padget of Dolores Colorado and Jack Britton of New York former welterweight champion.
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Jack McAuliffe
Martin O'Grady
Lestes
Youngstown
Ohio
Cowboy Padget
Dolores
Colo
Jack Britton
New York
Dempsey Camp Near Great Falls Lets Visitors Peek In
Great Falls Montana June 7. Champion Jack Dempsey sets up camp two miles from town on the Missouri river with an outdoor ring on a bluff. Bernard Dempsey runs the estate while Johnny and Joe Benjamin assist. Dempsey shows skill at pinochle and music via a radio. Visitors enter by gate as the camp operates as training HQ for the July Fourth title fight with Tom Gibbons in Shelby Montana.
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Great Falls
Mont
Jack Dempsey
Missouri River
Dempsey
Jack
Tom Gibbons
Shelby
Montana
Bernard Dempsey
Johnny Dempsey
Joe Benjamin
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