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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
2
Two Monogomers players Sheridan and Pu Riowaikr starred on offense and defense as the team struggles this afternoon. Local rivalry game details are unclear with mixed OCR text.
Managers of major clubs debate home versus South training as season opens April 23. Cubs and White Sox announce South training with California trips for the Nationals. Giants Yankees rumored to join Southward shift, while Athletics Dodgers and Reds weighed options. January meetings in New York to decide league matters and training plans.
At the thirteenth annual NCAA gathering in New York delegations from about 309 colleges will push reforms to curb prewar athletics excesses and ensure faculty membership for coaches. Dr George L Meylan of Columbia urges permanent coaching positions and less turnover to stabilize athletic programs as Yale Harvard and Princeton plan prewar baseball schedules.
The page surveys boxing news from the era including Corbett venturing into film work with Universal and Dempsey Morris debates over a blow that felled Morris. It notes Jim Corbett's UK bout revival forecasts, Turner Merfolk moved to Boston, and various horse races with detailed weights, times, and placements for multiple races. It also covers race results and studious boxers amid a broad sports roundup.
An postwar feature notes Georges Carpentier as a hoped for European champion contender with United States tours to promote war charity. It mentions plans for a heavy schedule in the Americas, possible bouts with Jack Dempsey, and arrival of Jimmy Wilde aiming for Moore and Herman. Also cited is Eddie Grant, famed infielder, possibly naming Braves field as Grant Field in his honor.
New York reports reveal starving infants on Christmas Eve as high milk prices curb purchases. Welfare worker Mary A. Sullivan shows photographs of emaciated babies while attorney John B. Miller questions a milk trust amid rising costs. Magistrate McAdoo notes the public remains at mercy of a benevolent enemy. inquiry to resume.
Philadelphia boxing notes report Willie Jackson delivering a sixth round knockout to George Young Joe in a Christmas matinee. Several six rounders followed including Johnny Mealey, Frankie Brown and Eddie Keiley wins, with a draw between Frankie Clark and Dennie Vlager. Also listed are results from horse races with multiple entrants and times. Henry Mitchell MacCracken, chancellor emeritus of New York University, died in hospital at 89, with funeral planned in New York.
A busy week brings Chu Chin Chow to Poli's Theater for one week with matinees Thursday and Saturday, while National Theater hosts Cohan & Karris's A Tailor Made Man with Grant Mitchell New York cast. Lasters include Booth Tarkington Seventeen at the Belasco with Gregory Kelly, and other engagements at Loe w s Palace and Moore's Rialto featuring Marguerite Clark and Douglas Fairbanks among many attractions.
Fragmentary OCR reveals a report about a new Portuguese ministry formation. It mentions ministers including Neves as commerce minister and a foreign affairs head, with unclear other names and titles.
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