Leonard Wins Lightweight Bout In Six Rounds
Benny Leonard the lightweight champion defeated Paul Doyle in a slow six round bout in Philadelphia. Jeff Smith knocked out Billy Kra mer at Camp Dix. Other New Year matinees saw Jimmy McHale defeat Paul Sampson and Bart Madden beat Lar Williams. Jack Thompson and Teet Allan fought a no contest after Clark refused a fight. Cubs and Red Sox plan joint training in Pasadena with games to follow for 1919 season.
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Philadelphia
Benny Leonard
Paul Doyle
New York
Jeff Smith
Camp Dix
Billy Kramer
Milwaukee
Immy McHale
Paul Sampson
Brooklyn
Bartley Madden
Lar Williams
Ralph Brady
Syracuse
N. Y
CUBS
RED Sox
Pasadena
Chicago
Fred Mitchell
Chicago Nationals
Harry Aree
California
Mitchell
Mitchells Win by Knockout in Milwaukee Bout
Pinkie Mitchell a lightweight from the Mitchell boxing family scored a knockout over Otto Wallace of Milwaukee in the ninth session of a ten round bout. A left jab and right swing ended the fight, Mitchell's third win over Wallace in two months. Ever Hammer of Chicago won on a foul from Charlie Metrie in the seventh round of a ten round bout.
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Mitchells
Milwaukee
Pinkie
Mitchell
Otto Wallace
Wallace
Ever Hammer
Chicago
Charlie Metrie
Great Lakes Eleven Wins Rose Tournament Championship
Great Lakes naval training station football team defeated Mare Island marines 17 to 0 to claim the service championship of the United States. The Rose Tournament game at Tournament Park drew about 22,009 spectators in Pasadena.
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Great Lakes
Pasadena
Cal
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
United States
Mare Island
Tournament Park
Toney Tries as Slacker in Nashville
Fred Toney former member of the Cincinnati National League club faced trial in federal court on charges of evading army service. Testimony came from local and district draft boards as he sought deferred classification claiming his wife and relatives in Tennessee depended on him.
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Toney
Nashville
Tenn
Fred Toney
Cincinnati National League Baseball Club
Tennessee
National League President Weydier Moves for Chicago Talks
John A Weydier president of the National League left for Chicago to confer with leading stockholders of the Chicago club. He will attend the joint scheduling committee meeting of National and American leagues at French Lick Springs Indiana on January 3 4 and 5.
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New York
John A. Weydier
National League
Chicagn
Chicago
Heyeydler
French Lick Springs
Ind
Downey and Lewis Draw in Columbus Title Bout
Bryan Downey of Columbus and Ved Lewis of New York fought 15 rounds to a draw in a welterweight bout in Columbus yesterday afternoon. The match ended without a clear winner as both fighters showed evenly matched form and technical skills throughout the interval.
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Downey
Lewis
Columbus
Bryan Downey
Ved Lewis
New York
Rot
Ross and Carson Draw in Edmonton Championship Bout
In Edmonton Alberta on January 2 the Canadian middleweight champion Al Ross and Brooklyn’s Kid Carson fought 15 rounds to a draw. Both fighters pressed for a win in a closely contested match that headlines local boxing action.
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Ross
Carson
Edmonton
Alberta
Serrgeant al. Ross
Kid Carson
Brooklyn
Groener Leads Monarchists in German Plot
A Berlin interview cited General Groener as the leader of a militaristic counterrevolutionary move to restore the monarchy. German Socialist figures questioned whether the public would support a monarchist government and noted secret orders rumored from military leaders.
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London
Richard Barth
Ecereta
German Independent Socialist Party
General Groener
Lundendorff
the Express
Berl
Barth
Groener
Herr Barth
Hohenzollerns
Michaelis
Ebert
Gustave Noske
Herr Wissel
Germany
Empire
German Republic
Phillip Scheidemann
Women in Slickers Watch Fire at White House
National Woman's Party members in rain wear seamen slickers stood by a burning metal tub on the White House sidewalk to protest until the senate acts on woman suffrage. Earlier a similar fire burned in a tub after a crowd and uniformed men extinguished one in Lafayette Square. several women were arrested but released without bond.
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Washington
PDC
National Women's Party
White House
Senate
LaFayette Square
Butte War Stamp Shortage Tied to Forged Check Arrest
After the Tuesday arrest of Mrs. H. H. Bradlee head of the Silver Bow county women’s division of war savings stamps officials report a shortage of more than $3,060 in thrift stamps charged to the two Butte post offices. County Attorney J. R. Jackson says the office uncovered the deficit during the investigation.
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Butte
Mont
H. H. Bradlee
Women’s Division
War Savings Stamps
Silver Bow County
J. R. Jackson
David Lubin Dies in Rome at 76
David Lubin of San Francisco founder of the International Institute of Agriculture and American representative on its permanent board died in Rome after pneumonia brought on by grippe.
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David Lubin
Rome
San Francisco
International Institute of Agriculture
Grippe
Adler-i-ka Miracle Cure Claim Featured in Anecdote
J H Underwood of Marion Alabama reports his wife was deemed incurable by doctors unless operated for bowel trouble and credits Adler-i-ka with rapid improvement. The ad touts Adler-i-ka as expelling gas and bile, cleansing the alimentary canal, curing constipation, and preventing appendicitis, touting long-term sales by Martin Drug Co.
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J. H. Underwood
Marion
Ala
Adler-ika
Martin Drioy Co Ady
Pope Benedicts New Year Greeting to America
The Pope sends a New Year message from Rome praising Wilson era ideals and urging the Paris peace conference to create a league of nations. He prays for an end to wars, abolition of conscription, and the establishment of international tribunals to settle disputes and secure peace and equal rights.
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Associated Press
Rome
America
Pope Benedict
League of Nations
Wilson
Holy See
Paris
Norfolk Seeks Jean Crones Suspect Over 1916 Banquet Poison Plot
Norfolk county authorities confirm custody of a man calling himself George Soyler. They suspect he may be Jean Crones wanted in Chicago for allegedly poisoning 200 guests at a University Club banquet on February 10, 1916. An officer from Chicago is en route.
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Norfolk
Jal
Jean Crones
Chicago
University Club
George Soyler
WT. McCarty
McCarty
Crones
Mrs. Duryea Returns From France Decorated
Nina Larrey Duryea, president of Duryea War Relief in France, arrives in New York aboard the Espagne with decorations from France, Russia, Belgium, and Montenegro. She is the first American woman to cross battlefields of the Somme, the Argonne and the Ardennes to rally 72 branches in the U S for aid.
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New York
France
Russia
Belgium
Montenegro
Nina Larrey Duryea
Duryea War Relief
Espagne
United States
Duryea
Battle
Somme
Argonne
Ardennes
Ypre
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Tucson
Uct
Neil
Earl & Wilson
Phil C.brannen
Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Steinfeld’s
Albert Stienfield & Co
Eno
Clark
Nternational Bank
Ivancovich Co
Wat
Corenhagen
Berlin
Prussia
Telis Spartacans
Sportscue Group
M. Radek
Redek
Rhine
Adler-i-ka
Albert Steinfeld & Co
Wilbur
Dee UV
Cae Obe
Albert Steinfeld
POPE
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