Len Darcy Heads to America for Bout After War Cordon Eases
Reports from New York indicate Len Darcy has broken through conscription constraints and will travel to the United States for boxing action. Australian press notes Darcy could land in America before Christmas, with promoter chatter labeling Freddie Welch and Jack Dillon as potential opponents.
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George T. Holmes
New York
Len Darcy
America
Harry Pollok
Harry Marsden
Australia
Carey
Newcastle
Hattie Luckentack
New Orleans
Darcy
Tal Tal
Chile
Varcy
Darcey
Tie
Freddie Welch
Perenys
Eddie McGoarty
Jhanny Clabby
K. O. Brown
Cecelia Wright
Johnson
Willard
Nayana
Moran
Para
Jack Dillon
Mike Gibbone
St. Paul
Dilton
Leviathan
Italia
Blander
Fourteen games to be played by Columbia basketball
New York December 2 fourteen games form the Columbia varsity basketball schedule for the coming season. Four of the games are away from the league and opponents include Brooklyn Polytechnic St Johns College U C N at City College Ithaca Union Pennsylvania Yale Dartmouth Dartmouth Princeton and others with dates from December to March.
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New York
Columbia
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
St. John's College
U. CN
City College Gymnasium
Cortell
Ithaca
Union
Bchenectadys
Pennsylvania
Philadphia
Yale
Dartworth
Hanover
Columbian
Princeton
New Haven
Former Utah Man To Assist Folwell
Boreman Mont Dec 1 Coach Fred Bennion of Montana State College football has accepted Folwell’s invitation to assist the Penn team for the game with Oregon on New Year’s Day in Pasadena California. Reunion will join the easterners through Salt Lake.
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Utah
Folwell Boreman
Mont
Fred Bennion
Montana State
Folwall
University of Pennsylvania
University of Oregon
Pasadena
Calif
Salt Lake
Rutgers Seeks Fresh Talent To Bolster Basketball Roster
New Brunswick reports Rutgers men’s basketball hopefuls for Coach Frank Tum’s squad. Only two players from last year remain in college as prep stars show promise. Yale offered a game. Rutgers hopes to reschedule with Princeton nearby.
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New Drunswick
Faiiy
Frank Tum
T He Rutgern Quintz
Yale
Rutgersy
Princeton
Waterers
Chance Wanted to Manage Chicago Next Year
Frank Chance, former Chicago Cubs manager, said he received a request from Chicago National Baseball Club to submit terms for managing the team next season. He indicated a high salary demand, potentially 25 000 dollars per year on a two year pact, after guiding the Los Angeles team to first place last season. Charles Weeghman, president of the Chicago National, denied any offer or negotiations, stating there is nothing to it.
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San Diego
Cal. Mee
Frank Chance
Chicago National Baseball Club
Chance
Cubs
Los Angeles
Chicago
Dec. J
Charles Weeghman
Boy Billiard Prodigy Aims For Championship Return
New York December 2 Louis Krotites an seventeen year old billiard prodigy and potential challenger for the Professional Championship demonstrated his fire in a Madison Avenue match by making a city best 131 consecutive pockets over nine frames before missing on the tenth. He eyes a return match with Ralph Greenleaf as he trains at the Madison Bill iard Academy.
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New York
Louis Krotites
Whem
Quinn Resigns as Columbus Club Manager
James A. Bobby Quinn, business manager and secretary of the Columbus American Association baseball club since 1902, tendered his resignation to the directors. He is expected to join a major league club in a scout or business manager role.
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Sorby Quinn
Columbus
James A
Bobby
Fifteen Lives Lost in Games During 1916 Football Season
Chicago reports 15 deaths among football players in 1916, with last year 16 and 1914 15. Most victims were not college players. only one college student died. Injuries included broken necks and internal trauma, usually from rapid fatalities rather than long suffering. Coaches say safety improvements have reduced danger, yet football remains a harsh test for those in peak physical condition.
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Chicago
Theen Ives
Associated Press
Willam
Joars
Munhall
John A. Forter
Athens
Ohio
Edwin Young
Pittsburg
Pierr Wieland
Miram Cote
Fayette
Elmer L. Carlquist
Ith
Wallace Rowland
Weirton
W. Va
Borga Campbell
Piitsbury
Francia Moriarty
Detroit
Mickay
Stanford Baseball Schedule Arranged for East Tour
Stanford University plans an extended baseball tour next season starting in the Rockies, then moving east to face Notre Dame Indiana Michigan Yale Harvard Princeton and other colleges. The trip aims to foster fraternity among Pacific and eastern schools and marks a historic expansion of Stanford baseball.
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Stanford University
Cal
Rocky Mountain States
Notre Dame
Indiana
Yra‘euse
Michigan
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Pacific
East
Ebbetts Submits an' Amendment to National League
New York Dec 1 Charles H Ebbets president of the Brooklyn Nationals says he submitted an amendment to raise the National League player limit from twenty one to twenty two for consideration at the league’s annual meeting. He also announced the Winnipeg club sale of Infielder Adame and Outfielder Miller to Brooklyn and released several players to other clubs with recall options after 1917. Tucker will join Brooklyn scouts in multiple leagues while Brooklyn may move training from Daytona Beach to Hot Springs Ark.
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Charles H. Ebbets
Brooklyn Nationals
National League
Ita
Iimit
Leagte
Ebbets
Adame
Miller
Winnipeg
Brooklyn
Atrieht
Napoleon Rucker
Colwell
Goodbred
stKller
Oakland
Kelleher
Denver
Nixon
Deamont
Tucker
Daylang
Fla
Hot Springs
Ark
Miller Edges Yokel For Middleweight Verdict In Billings
In Billings Montana Walter Miller of St Paul defeated Mike Yokel of Salt Lake City for the middleweight title after Yokel could not respond at time. Both men scored a fall and the decision went to Miller as time expired.
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Miller
Mike Yokel
Billings
Mont. Dre
Walter Miller
St. Paul
Salt Lake City
Yokel
Joe Gedion May Return To Coast To Play Ball
Ex-Fed star Joe Gedon now with the Yankees hints at returning to the Pacific coast next season. He drew early praise in Salt Lake with a batting flourish that pleased fans and raised talk of his possible move back to the region.
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Joe Dedeon
Fed Star
The
Yanks
Pacific Coast
Poplar
Feds
Joe
Pearing
Salt Lake
Japanese golfers plan New York golf course project
Japanese golfers in New York have hired architect A W Tillinghast to design a 200 member course on Tong Taland. The plan envisions a Nipponese garden style club house and grounds shaped by a Japanese landscape gardener. The exact site and many members are to be announced.
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New York
A. W. Tillinghast
Tong Taland
Silistrich
Trotting Horse Guy Axworthy Sells for $20000
In Madison Square Garden New York on December 2 H S Harkness owner of Walnut Hill Lock farm Donerail Kentucky bought the bay stallion Guy Axworthy for 20000. The horse has run one mile in 2 08 4 and is sire of Lee Axworthy. Previously shipped from Texas by Senator J W Batley the horse had sold for 2100, later profits rose to 17590 for former owners Leon and Max Orttinger in under two years.
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New York
Madison Square
Garden
H. S. Harkness
Walnut Hill Lock Farm
Donerail
Guy Axworthy
Lee Axworthy
Texan
J. W. Batley
Leon
Max Orttinger
Charley White Tops Stan Yoakum In Eight Rounds
Charley White of Chicago outpointed Stanley Yoakum of Denver in eight of ten rounds in New York. White weighed 135 pounds to Yoakum's 144. Separate item notes a Chicago meeting of the American League Teague being moved to New York, then clarified as unchanged, with President Johnson stating the conference will still meet in Chicago on December 12.
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Charley White
Stan Yoakum
New York
Chicago
Stanley Yoakum
Denver
Yoakum
Going to extremes in arcade penny scale choices
In the Youngstown Telegram excerpt, Alondine Giddigad is described as persistently shopping for value. Turnetta notes her habit of seeking the best deal, with a humorous aside about her comparing penny-in-the-slot arcade machines to maximize her money.
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Alondine
Gerty Giddigad
Turnetta
Youngstown Telegram
Two Tennis Marvels In Quest of Far East Championship
Elizabeth Nova Scotia Dec 2 George Myers Church of Tenafly and Harold A Throckworton of this city begin a long journey to win the Far East lawn tennis championship. They head to Vancouver then sail on the Empress of Russia to China Japan Honolulu and the Philippines. They travel with a heavy baggage including a dozen racquets and are confident they can win the doubles title. They will be away five or six months traveling several thousand miles before returning home.
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Aingies
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