Mackey and Tyrrell Vie for District Wrestling Title Match
Rob Roy Mackey and Harvey Tyrrell prepare for a decisive finish wrestling bout at Concordia Hall northwest. The 1448 pound match pits veteran experience against local rivalries as Young Atlas faces Cleve Beckett and Dixie meets Yankee Simpson in preliminary bouts.
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Concordia Hall
Rob Roy Mackey
Harvey Tyrrell
Mmabi
Sixth
E Streets Northwest
Mackey
Tyrrell
Mads
Young Atlas
Cleve Beckett
Joe Grant
Dixie
Yankee Simpson
Tixie
Washington Professionala
Sheppard faces probe over amateur status in mile hopes
New York on February 12 reports Melvin Sheppard of the Irish American Athletic Club accused of professionalism. Officials may strip him of amateur status, jeopardizing his chance to challenge Tommy Conneff's mile world record. Separate Chicago report notes John Smith of Austin dies from injuries suffered in a football game on October 25.
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New York
Melvin Sheppard
Irish-American Athletic Club
Amateur Athletic Union
Tommy Conneff
Sheppard
Philadelphia
Scranton
Boston
Brooklyn
Bobby Hatlen
Labor Day
Thomas O'Brien
John Stell
New York Athletic Club
Chicago
John Smith
Austin
St. Annine’s Hospital
Smith
St Valentine Wins Derby Challenge at New Orleans
St Valentine defeated the Derby favorite Hal lowmas by a neck at the Fair Grounds in a handicap race amid a clear, fast track. Jockey W Robbins steered the winner who bore 19 pounds more than the rival. Logistera and Hocus Pocus were the other winning favorites. Race summaries note Scotch Dance and Budapest among early winners.
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St. Valentine
Logistella
Hocus Pocus
New Orleans Fair Grounds
New Orleans
Hallowmas
Fair Grounds
W. Robbins
Logistera
Delco
Budapest
Mintberia
King Leopold
Friction
Miss Martha
Blackwell
Dorothy
Vion C
Philippine Gir
Launtfal
May Gilmore
Logistelia
Ethics
Doctor Spruil
Hyacinth
Louise Macfarland
Old Hat
Cleveyland
Monaco Maid
R. F. Williams
Favorite Outside Money Won at City Park Handicap
New Orleans February 12 Thistle Do and Bert Osra were winning favorites at City Park. Money favored in race one had a bad knee and showed weakness at post. John Carroll failed to carry weight in the handicap as weather remained clear and track fast.
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John Carroll
New Orleans
Black
Money
Boas
Brummel
Azele
Alyth
Vendido
Thistle de
Sci
del Carina
Maclin
Signal Light
Joan Garner
Eclectic
Malediction
Air Sutp
Garnish
Joan Carroll
Lay Osther
Anne Davia
Minnie Admas
Debar
Goldie
Merringe
Lady Charade
Sago
Pive
Bert Osta
Percy Clark
Evox
Skyward
Ethel Devis
Magistrate
Sir Andrew
Trompeuse
Handmish
Major Carpenter
Draco
Nevermore
Margaret Angela
Telepathy
Awawagang
Libation
Corliss
Speathket Helen
Welsh
Sibylis
Goldbearer
Anzle Berry
Golden Glow
Big Killing on Tim Hurst at Ascot Race
At Los Angeles February 12 Tim Hurst opened 2 to 1 and won easily by two lengths as a big play took the field. Wrenne, from 30 to 1 to 10 to 1 at post, was a one head winner. The card included six races with Bribery and Tim Hurst among the favorites and a cloudy, good track.
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Ascot Los Angeles
Ascot
Tim Hurst
Bribery
Wrenne
Dan Collins
Matapan
Heppy Lad
Lady Travers
Shannon Side
Miles Affable
Vincido
Leonade
Astraea
Salina
Water Fox
Pinta
Batley
Young Marlow
Tottenham
John W. Dabney
la Taranta
Avontellus
Adaimo
Stone Arabia
Colonel B.palmer
Benroe Alao Rag
Starling
Lady King
Siver Wedding
Lotta Gladstone
Turkeyfoot
Bourne
My Choice
Hflye
Prince Magnet
Roustaboul
Smithy Kane
Montanus
Pegsy O'Neal
Huachuca
Interlude
Conde
Capitanazo
Luckett
Miss May Bowdish
Neatness
Sir Brinkley
Babe B
Atene
Alma Gardia
Erevation
Bixth
Red Tapa
Kumiss
Rubinon
Tipte
Colonel Bronston
Bill Curtis
Tangible
Seck Cake
PetixJohn
Golden Light
Mi Reina
Oakland Feature Race Ends With Full Victory
Jack Full overtakes Ralph Young to win the Oakland feature in rainy mud. Sullivan chased, pacemaker beat, final margin a length and a half. Other races noted include three and a half furlongs won by Ice Marian, six furlongs won by Corrigan, and a one mile victory by Jack Full in the fourth race. Weather damp, track slick, list of runners and times provided.
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Jack Full
Ralph Young
Oakland
San Francisco
Jack Ull
Sullivan
Janice Marian
Fleorenia
Vacrumesto Belle
Macy W
Frankis Newburgh
Agatha
Tetraszin
Queen Alfenna
Grace Sinclair
Carrie L
Corrigan
Oronte
Captain
Swagger
Watercure
Hogarth
Major Tenney
Harbor
Arrahgowan
Thing
Ray
Red Light
Briers
Glenaryop
Croche
Henry Lurchmann, Jr
F. W. Barr
Beu Lad
Isolation
Et Dinera
Grasseuttes
Will Run Well Today at Fair Grounds Card List
A listing of many horse names and horsemen including Will Run Well Today among numerous entries such as My Son Bud Hit Gay Adelaide Lancastrian Pretty Nellie Maxey Jr The Regent King Husworth Goldemoth Southern Cross Columbia Girl Stoner Hill Ethel Red Holloway Fred Hornbeck Helery C Sincerity City Park Lady Mala Blackflag La Thorpe Freebooter Bertha Ex Wogglebug Envoy Shawang Sailor Boy Royal Legend Morerido Weber Belt Capitane Lieber Gore Gentian Careless Florizel Huzeah Feix Mozzes Adare Creel Ascot Valcurez Wapnagootie King of Spades Elizabeth F Stoessel Tavennes Pyrrhe The Borgian Fille dOr Marshal Ney Rannis Firm Foot Gentle Harry Whoa Bill Sleigh Bell Fort Plain Foncasta Lady Kasper Oakland Yankee Jim Hermits Gross Paladina Captain Burnett Midmont Dick Wilson Orchan Cauejo Lady Kagt Lady Goodrich Christine A Clydeo Pentagon Tom Roberts Abe Meyer Corrigan Anvil Al Waddell.
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Fair Grounds
Friction
My Son
Bud Hit
Gay Adelaide
Nellie
Maxey, Jr
the Regent
King Husworth
Goldemoth
Southern Cross
Columbia Girl
Stoner Hill
Ethel Red
Holloway
Fred Hornbeck
Helery C
Sincerity City Park
Lady Mala
Blackflag
la Thorpe
Freebooter
Bertha Ex
Wogglebug
Envoy
Shawang
Sailor Boy
Royal Legend
Morerido
Weber Belt
Capitane
Lieber Gore
Gentian
Careless
Florizel
Huzeah
Feix Mozzes
Adare
Creel
Valcurez
Wapnagootie
King of Spades
Elizabeth F
Stoessel
Tavennes
Pyrrhe
the Borgian
Fille d'Or
Marshal Ney
Rannis
Firm Foot
Gentle Harry
Whoa Bill
Sleigh Bell
Fort Plain
Foncasta
Lady Kasper
Oakland
Yankee Jim
Hermit’s Gross
Paladina
Captain Burnett
Midmont
Dick Wilson
Orchan
Cauejo
Lady Kagt
Lady
Black Flag
Martha V
Retna Swift
Preciosa
Lika
Fanny Marks
Cecelia
Caper
Annie Ruskin
Red Ruler
Dungannon
Cascine
Monochord
Orient
Limerick
Gfrl
Morendo
Clyde
Juba
Happy Jack
Mary Werth
Wetherfields
Colin George
Taplola
Brown Wall
Wickford and
Buds
Davenport
Harvest Time
Clique
Nevada
Algonquin
Sportsman
Miss Jordan
Red Ruby
Ann Ihil
Tadellos
Rama
Honeywell
Florize
Kleinwood
April Shower
Hon Mot
Huzzah
Jack Ratlin
Little Red
Conundrum
Allarice
Cornbury
Ramite
Hermit’s Cross
Don Sonby
John J. Mohr
Charley Payne
Woalma
Tanana
King~maker
Joe Lamar
Paul B. Jones
San Jose
Brown Scott
Philarnus
Ray Cerlo
Supreme Court
Lady Goodrich
Sir Brivlar
Christine A
Fulietta
Theo Cause
Aradon
Abe Meyer
Governor Davis
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Ratin
Watchful
Santa Ray
Raton
Tom Roberts
Lord Nelson
Meistersinger
Corrigan
Veterano
al Waddell
Argieshire
Tizora
Anvil
Ascot
New Orleans Fair Grounds Racing Entries Listed
The racing card at New Orleans Fair Grounds shows multiple races with detailed entries including Myson, Schroeder's Midway, Hud Hill, and Big Store in the first race at three and a half furlongs with 112 weights. The second race covers six furlongs with varied weights, followed by a mile and seventy yards purse in the third race and a 6 1/2 furlong handicap in the fourth. Additional sixth and seventh races feature selling and purse events with extensive entrant lists and weights for each horse.
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New Orleans
Fair Grounds
Myson
Schroeder
Midway
Hud Hill
Big Store
Helmuth
Gold Circle
Weethervane
Alex. Powell
Friction
Quien Sabe
Pinsticker
Pretty Nellie
Jade
Gay Adelaide
Hannlbel Bey
Porea
Delinda
Celebration
Elastic
the Cure
Macy
Ternus
Kitty Platy
John Bardelph
Peter Paul
The
Regent
King Ellsworth
Jessup
Rainland
Goldblatt
Edith May
Collector Jessup
Invincible
Escutcheon
James Reddick
Southern Croas
Columbia Girl
Goldsmith
Thelred
Bitter Hand
Young Later
Holloway
Stoner Hill
Ethelred
Young Gater
Strother
Gotowin
Sincerity Helle
Henry
Wedgewood
Bravery
Wred Hornbeck
Kenton
Brookston and
Gay Lizette
Colonist
Rickashaw
Cottage Maid
Avoid
Sthowlmate
Aurumamer
National League Will Not Change Rules This Season
Baltimore reports Barney Dreyfus head of the National League rules committee talked with Edward Hanlon about the committee’s plans. The group, including Charles Murphy, will likely keep last season's rules, including the foul strike rule, despite AL agitation. Mrs Dreyfus will join the men in New York for the schedule meeting.
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National League Committee
Baltimore
Barney’ Dreyfus
Pittsburg
Edward Hanlon
Charles Murphy
Chicago
National League Rules Committee
Dreyfus
Hart
Hanlon
New York
Holy Cross Baseball Schedule Set for Spring Season
Holy Cross College unveils its schedule for the baseball season with games listed in Worcester and various away venues. Key dates include April 14 vs Springfield Training School in Worcester and April 30 against Dartmouth in Hanover, followed by marquee matchups with Harvard Yale and Fordham through May.
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Worcester
Mass
Holy Cross College
Springfield Training School
Amherst
Boston College
Dartmouth
Tufts
Medford
Brown
Niagara University
Trinity
Hanover
University of Vermont
Burlington
Harvard
Syracuse
Yale
Georgetown
Fordham
New Haven
Hartford
Wesleyan
Janes
New York
Columbia to Play Limited Football Schedule Next Fall
President Butler of Columbia University outlined a restricted plan for the 1920 football season. A reliable source said the schedule will be so limited that training time will be minimal, addressing concerns about the game’s effects on students and campus life.
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Washington Post
New York
Butler
Columbia University
Columbia
Junior Relay Race Set for Inter scholastic Indoor Games
Sunday-school junior relay championship added to open handicap program at Convention Hall on February 24. Teams from Mount Pleasant Congregational First Congregational Gurley Presbyterian Episcopal Chapel South Washington Peck Memorial Chapel compete in two laps per boy for district honors.
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Convention Hall
Mount Pleasant
First Congregational
Gurley Presbyterian
Episcopal Chapel
South Washington
Peck Memorial
West Washington
Sunday School Athletic Association
Gurley
Episcopal Association
National League to Meet on Player Contracts and Draft Rules
The National Base ball Commission convenes in New York to blacklist or reinstate players who jumped contracts for the outlaw Tri-State League. It will draft amendments to the draft rules and report minor league issues as leagues prepare for midweek sessions. Trades loom, with Clark Griffith possibly orchestrating one.
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Washington
New York
National Baseball Commission
Garry Herrmann
Ban B. Johnson
H. C. Pulliam
Clark Griffith
Opening of tuxedo boxing club near Philadelphia
Philadelphia reports the new Tuxedo Park Club in Delaware County opens Wednesday with bouts. Welterweight Tony Mellody of Boston to fight Billy Burke of Philadelphia in a score of rounds if permitted. other fights include Tony Bender and Al Granger. Building seats 6,000 with bleacher rows described. Center railroad access from Philadelphia offers two hour direct trains for big fights.
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Philadelphia
Tuxedo Park
Delaware County
Tom O'Rourke
Tony Mellody
Boston
Billy Burke
Melody
Melleody
Lurke
Tony Bender
Elizabeth
SW. v
al Granger
Phoenixville
Central Railroad
New Jersey
Spring Training Opens at Harvard Under Coburn
Spring training began at Harvard today with about sixty men in the baseball squad practicing indoors in the Soldiers Field cage. Paul N Coburn, star pitcher of last year's team, is in charge with occasional help from graduate players as professional coaching has been abandoned. The rowing squad also started work in the tank the same day.
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Coburn
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Paul
N. Coburn
Holy Cross Coach Resigns Amid Faculty Student Tension
Worcester mass February 12 George W King of Springfield tendered his resignation as Holy Cross football coach for 1 to the faculty last night He did not want to hurt his alma mater The resignation was not accepted and will not be for some time The dispute centers on the appointment and control over the coaching position with graduate athletic manager William Welch resigning over lack of influence The unrest shows no signs of settling
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Worcester
Mass
George W. King
Springfield
Holy Cross
Welther
William Welch
Princeton Track Schedule Announces Spring Meets
Princeton University track management releases the list of upcoming meets for the season. Highlights include a March 3 indoor meet with Fordham in New York, April 21 the tenth annual Interacholastic meet at Princeton, and May 12 a dual with Yale in New Haven followed by a May 19 dual with Columbia at Princeton.
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Pa Amalth Princeton
N. J
University
Princeton University Tonight
Fordham
New York
Princeton
Caledonia
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Cornell
Yale
New Haven
Cotunablé
Triz
Harvard Concession Bars Professional Students from Varsity Teams
Harvard agrees with Yale to bar students of professional schools from university teams, a concession seen as significant given Harvard’s strong professional programs. Princeton has already agreed. Yale reports that training-table costs for athletic teams will be cut, starting with baseball and crew.
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Mew Haven
Conn
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Dogs of high degree at Westminster show wins record class
Ed Shelley of Olney Illinois wins a $100 cup for best exhibit of field trial winning English setters at the Westminster Kennel Club in New York as nearly 2,000 dogs compete, including top breeders Richard Croker Jr and George C. Thomas. Broadly, English setters, bulldogs, and fox terriers dominate the event with notable wins by homebred dogs and imports.
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Iinois
Richard Croker
United States
Washington Post
New York
Westminster Kennel Club
Ed Shelley
George N. Clemson
Middletown
Shelley
Olney
Eastern Millenaires
Canada
Pioneer
Jesse Redfield
Gladstone
Canada II
Maj.Taylor
Maj Tayler
Mego Leck
England
George C. Thomas
Philiedelphia
Thomas
William F. Earle
Richard Croker, Jr
Broadway
Persimmon
Advance Guard
Bulls Eye
Codman
Bernero
Lernero
Potomac Boat Club Eyes Middle States Regatta Plans
A largely attended Potomac Boat Club meeting at Carroll Institute discussed enthusiasm and plans for next season. Officers and Claude R. Zane Poné, Washington's NA Oarsmen representative, spoke. They decided not to bid for the national regatta but aim to land the Middle States regatta, hoping a Potomac venue will attract a large entry. Joseph T. Duty led last night's arrangements. Wiseman Defeats Pool Champion in Maryland Parlor Match. George Wiseman beat Walter Wallace 24 to 20 in a crowded Maryland pool parlor, with a high run of 42. a series is set for tonight. ReaganKO at Lincoln Athletic Club. Jimmy Walsh of Newton stopped Johnny Reagan of St Louis in the fifth round of a 15 round boxing bout in Boston at Chelsea.
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Potomac Boat Club
Carroll Institute
Claude R. Zanepone
Washington
National Association of Amateur Oarsmen
Potomac Club
Middle States
Potomac
Joseph TY
Duty
Wiseman
George Wiseman
Walter Wallace
Maryland
Pennsylvania Avenue
Walsh
Reagan
Boston
Jimmy Walsh
Newton
Johnny Reagan
St. Louis
Lincoln Athlete Club
Chelsea
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