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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1933
Page
3
The AP poll roundup notes a liberalization in all athletics, rising professional sports and renewed college football focus. Writers praise a calmer, saner sport culture amid shifts in racing, reform waves and expanding pro leagues.
The Mercer University Ramblers may be brought to Thomasville next week to play the Y M C A Buds. Financial backing is needed to cover gate proceeds and expenses, with Mercer featuring former gridiron stars Gordon Reddick Joe Popeko Bowie Gray and Ernie Zinkowsky. The team toured southern Georgia during holiday season and previous Mercer visits drew large crowds.
Boston High boys and girls both保持 perfect 7 0 records this fall with wins over Meigs Ochlocknee Quitman and Hahira. Coach C W Bell leads both teams building a new girls squad around a center from last year. Next up is a December matchup with Thomasville after Christmas holidays.
Florida will face four new foes in 1934 while meeting five 1933 rivals. Rellins VPI Tulane and Mississippi join the slate. NC State Maryland Georgia Auburn Georgia Tech are retained. Georgia Tech is set for a homecoming game November 24 at Gainesville.
Sports writers note wrestling gains and boxing declines as pro and college football gate receipts rise. Observers cite stronger customer discrimination and retrenchment in baseball, plus the end of Pennsylvania Sunday blue laws and a wave of sports consolidations.
Dr Geo L Dickersons Rectal Clinic remains open at 12344 Main St Jacksonville offering full operations and conservative treatments for piles and rectal diseases. The free booklet is available by mail as the clinic maintains the same address and services.
Erwin Rudolph of Cleveland, ex violinist turned billiards player, reclaimed the pocket billiards title by beating Andrew Ponzi of Philadelphia 125 to 113 in 18 innings. The win carries $1,600 prize, a diamond studded medal, and an 8 share of receipts.
Arrangements begun for the funeral of famed jockey Toddy Sloan who died at 59 in Los Angeles from cirrhosis and related complications. The tiny rider rose from poverty to wealth, racing glory from 1889 to 1901, winning five races in a day multiple times, and earning a top fee of 14 000 dollars for Bally Hookey at Sheepshead Bay in 1894.
Mercer University athletic director Major J. D. Blair unveils a ten game slate replacing Georgia, Army, Navy, and Spring Hill. Scheduled games include Presbyterian here, Loyola in New Orleans, Birmingham Southern in Birmingham, Furman here, Stetson in Deland, Washington and Jefferson here, Chattanooga in Chattanooga, Clemson in Savannah, and Oglethorpe in Atlanta.
Austrian manufacturers urge government action as Japanese goods flood the market in Vienna including electric bulbs artificial silk cotton goods and dyes. They warn prices remain well below Austrian production costs despite heavy duties and accuse Japan of encroaching on Austro German trade with dye products and other items.
Lee Morgan, in his junior year, won the quarterback job for Kansas State College, completing 11 of 21 passes for 219 yards against Missouri as the team, led by Bo McMillin, finished as runner up in the 1933 Big Six Conference.
A lively column recalls motorcyclists leaping walls and cars, betting stunts by Fordyce and Langston, plus a quail hunt using an auto. It notes Neil Williamson gathering quail remains, and urges funding to bring Mercer Ramblers for a basketball game, stressing the twenty five dollar guarantee.
In Rogers Park a police raid killed three gunmen tied to Dillinger and a group of escaped convicts. Officers seized two suspects later identified as Louis Katzewitz and Charles Tattlebaum plus Sam Ginsburg, all linked to a May 1932 bank robbery that netted $52,000.
Babe Ruth, relaxed and coatless, says he won’t discuss next year’s Yankees contract until the offer arrives with figures. He hints he may become the next Yankees manager, noting Colonel Ruppert’s strong support.
Bob Godwin of Daytona Beach drew against Maxie Rosenbloom the light heavyweight champion in a non title bout in West Palm Beach. Fans and local newspapers credited Godwin with five of ten rounds while Rosenbloom took one. Godwin was the aggressor and was knocked down once in the ninth but recovered.
West Point Ga Dec 22 One thousand civil works administration employees will be engaged for six months on a Chattahoochee river channel project. E E Forster of the Mobile federal engineer's office has arrived to oversee work including deepening the channel and flood control. The project will cost about 1 000 000 dollars.
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