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Newspaper
Warren Tribune
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1928
Page
6
The Army football team travels to New Haven to face Yale in a headline clash on Saturday. Yale, led by Mal Stevens, and the Cadets, with captain Sprague possibly sidelined, boast the East’s top two squads before a capacity crowd.
D Allen and Wood Flowers posted 95 with 1 112 on 02 bowl tomorrow. In similar games another player, less heralded, could be winning the football contest.
Chicago reports a day of potential upsets as top teams Iowa Minnesota Ohio Indiana Wisconsin Michigan Purdue Notre Dame Drake prepare for key clashes. The era of unlikely results looms with Wisconsin aiming to beat Michigan for the first time since 1899 and Purdue challenging Chicago after recent losses.
Forty year old Hall, a long distance roller skater, plans a training trip from San Francisco to New York starting April 15. He has twenty years on polished floors, highways and stages and recently completed a Kansas City to New York trek in 72 days averaging forty miles per eight hours, visiting fifty four majors. He wore out three pairs of shoes and four skate wheels on that journey.
Industrial league schedule delay noted as United Refinery withdraws from last night match with Pennsylvania Gas due to missing players. First nineteen league games of the year proceed as planned with a Sunday grid clash at Celeron Park between Warren Indies and Jamestown Black Rocks. Ralph Hanson, ex Tufts All Eastern, will play against Warren. Yale favored to beat Army in New Haven Bowl with key losses on both sides. Erie Stadium hosts a high school city championship between Academy High and East High with a size edge for Academy.
Jimmy McLarnin, the Vancouver fighter, will campaign in the Junior Welterweight and Welterweight divisions after finding 185 pounds too heavy. He plans to meet Tommy Grogan in Detroit on November 19 and aims for a bout at 140 pounds with Baby Joe Gans or Rube Goldstein at Madison Square Garden if he wins. He is 21, moving up from flyweight and struggled to make 135 for his lightweight title bout with Sammy Mandell last spring.
Western Pennsylvania football fans anticipate a record crowd at the Panter Bowl in Pittsburgh as Pitt faces Carnegie Tech on Saturday. Olliver Stiff reports tickets selling fast for a stadium near 70 000 capacity amid intensified Panther practice led by Coach Sutherland.
A column satirizes football fans and sports pundits noting poor score guessing by boys and questioning Navy football, Army grids, and World Series talk. It jokes about resignations in chess and trenches in war, referencing Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig with mock hawkish boasts.
A crowd of 60,000 is expected for the Carnegie Tech versus University of Pittsburgh game at Pitt Stadium, with Advisory Coach Judge Walter P. Steffen arriving from Chicago to observe the Tartans final drill. Duquesne University also prepared for a game with Geneva College tomorrow.
Leo Weid lech set a high single while Bil Thom led high three game totals. Smith-Horton topped team high total with 566 and Struthers-Wells led team total 2533. Next week features Tanks versus National Forge on Monday, United Refinery against House of Folkman on Tuesday, Tribune versus Struthers-Wells on Thursday, and Smith-Horton against Pennsylvania Gas on Friday.
Local schedules list Monday Milenius Clothes vs Hoagwall Hardware Tuesday Anderson Shoe vs Wood Flowers Thursday Style Shop against Metzger Wright. Navy backs coach Ingram plans Welcher Gannon Spring Clifton. Princeton reshuffles backfield before Cornell game. Fremd stars Frank Russell and Frank Fadale set season marks. Temple players attend daily dance drills as part of training. Charlie Jones to return for Fordham against Washington and Jefferson. Dartmouth relies on aerial attack to defeat Harvard. Knute Hansen signs to fight K O Christener in Cleveland December 5.
Two undefeated high school teams Warren and North East meet Saturday at Russell Field at 2 30 PM in a clash expected to test a slow field. Blue and White favored to win though Grapepickers may push them. Warren has faced tougher schedules while North East has beaten Class B foes including Fredonia and Silver Creek.
Style Shop extended its perfect run in the Antler league by defeating Wood Florists on the club lanes. Style Shop totaled 2604 pins to Wood Florists 2319, led by Eddie Henderson's 194 high single and Harold Byers 559 series.
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