Scarce Game and Imported Competition Rise In Prices
The Biological Survey reports growing scarcity of venison prairie chickens and quail due to stricter laws and enforcement. It notes a shift toward imported game at moderate prices while mapping natural life zones to guide farmers. The boll weevil persists in Texas as birds prey on it are being protected. Also dated Chilean railway bid announced at 11,250,000 dollars with an American syndicate withdrawal.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Texas
Canaries
Santiago
Chile
Aries
la Paz
Bolivia
Eee
Round Dance Dominates Fair Grounds Juvenile Stakes
Newton Bennington reports Round Dance the two year old filly easily defeating Helen Lucas in the third race at the Fair Grounds. Other favorites winning include Paul Clifford and Lieber. Weather cloudy track heavy as each race winner and times are listed with multiple notable runners across six races.
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New Orleans
Newton Bennington
Round Dance
Fair Grounds
Helen Lucas
Paul Clifford
Lieber
Baywood
Mary Primm
Mime
Esterre
Bandide
Detest
Major Graham
Lilly Brook
Paul Difford
Investor
Captain Bot
Toredello
Pennant
Roderick
Jungle Impulsa
Duextemps
Chauncey Olcott
Bitter Hand
Remington
Blue Pirate
Portworth
G. Parke
Flavigny
Sincerity Beile
Dolinda
Henry O
Athena
Arsenal
Erne
Claremont
Tower
Dave Sommers
Frult
PILED UP DULL RAIN DAY AT CITY PARK RACES
Heavy rain at City Park delayed six races and reduced the program to five favorites winning. Signal Light, a 20 to 1 shot, led the upset parade as the day’s lone nonfavorite victor. Seven furlongs saw Signal Light win. other races included Balished, Chamblet, Amberita, Covina among the winners with tight times and a scratched fourth race.
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City Park
New Orleans
Deayjing
Signal Light
Lidwina
Flying Charcoal
Algonquin
el Rey
Brushteen
Precious Stone
Jacob
Gus Lanka
Nom de Plume
Custis
George Perry
Balished
Arthur Rosenfeld
Bussarriaro
Chamblet
Karama
Beau Brummel
Robert Minton
Corn Blossom's Handicap Favorite Wins at Oakland Card
San Francisco January 3 Corn Blossom favorite captures the mile handicap at Oakland. Race results include First Race Seven furlongs Distributor and Sherry. Second Race Three furlongs Native Sou wins. Futurity course Gossiper II wins. One mile Kanaleap Corn Blossom takes fifth. Ethel Abbott wins sixth race. Andrew 5. Cook wins sixth event with Beau Ormonde in the frame. Authorities list other runners: Tam o' Stanter Estraza Mountebank Dota Dr Sherman Mil ler's Daughter Lady Atheling Melar.
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Oakland
San Francisco
Pirst Rach
Sherry
Tam O' Stanter
Estraza
Flagerdon
Mountebank
Dota
Dr. Sherman
Miller
Lady Atheling
Melar
Rach
Native Sou
Palemon
Hamada
Oven
Menden
Yankee Jim
St Lucar
Irene
Outram
Jla
Ruby Norton
Clandestine
Bucolic
Blumenthal
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Smithy Thyne
Roustapeut
Aunt Pally
Mabel
Reed
Gyros
Corn Blossom
Nealon
Dorada
Rightful
Blue Eyes
St. George, Jr
Ethel Abbott
Major Tenney
Tarrigan
Tnn
Vigoroso
Maud Muller
Mordents
Flora
Bright
Langford James
Andrew
Cook
Beau Ormonde
Gingette
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Rockey
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Little Buttercup
Chickadee
Meadow Morn
Kingstelle
Anti-trust
Ray Egan
el Casador
Edwin L. Frier
Duke of Orleans
Tony Faust
Buera Ventura
Miss Fidgety
Lady Alice
Cutaneous
Chotee
Queen of Knight
Wrenne
Montanus
Sir Wilfrid
Cello
Foxhall
Bribery
McCarthy
Hermitage
Paul
Hector
Elevation
Misa Halizabeth
San Fara
Don Domo
Fustian
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Hippocrates
Brigand
Ins
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Arrah Gowan
Hoodwink
Lustig
Golden Green
Courant
Peafo
Not a favorite wins at Ascot in Los Angeles card
Not a single favorite prevailed at Ascot today in Los Angeles. Five races yielded winners and non favorites across odds from 2 to 9 to 1. Antara won the first race over Search Me and Carrick. Dutiful claimed the second over Redlight. Betsy won the Futurity course third with Valencia second. Toupee captured the handicap fourth, with Borghest second. The Huguenot won the fifth over Clydeo. Lucene led the sixth over Money Mass and Revolt.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Ascot
Antara
Search Me
Carrick
Prime
Rubino
Mobur
Quick Stride
Belasco
Co B
Palmer
Moronitz
Peter Parley
Silent Jean
Banten
Stoessel
Randle
Lillie B
Sir Brinkley
Headicap
Toupee
Borghest
Clydeo
Potrero Grande
Gadfly
Dekaber
Judge Denton
Harbor
Lucene
Money Mass
Revolt
Confessor
Chieftain
Winnie Adams
Florence Fonso Algo Tan
Carroll Institute Wrestling Tourney Opens January 16
Under Amateur Athletic Union rules the Carroll Institute hosts a wrestling tournament on January 16 open to AAU athletes. Bouts will be catch-as-catch-can with strangle and hammerlock barred. Weights by classes within six pounds. Also institute games for juniors: running high jump, running broad jump, goal throwing, chinups, and potato race. Entries close January 12 with Prof Maurice A Joyce.
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Carroll Institute
Amateur Athletic Union
Maurice A. Joyce
Marinette School Board Abolishes Football
Marinette Wisconsin on January 3 the school board voted to abolish football from all Marinette schools. The resolution states interscholastic football is dangerous to life and limb and not conducive to moral uplifting, noting it tends to promote lying cheating betting petty misconduct and drunkenness among players.
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Marinette
Wis
Marinette School Board
Lfe
Racing Entries From New Orleans Fair Grounds Cards
Entries list for multiple races at New Orleans Fair Grounds and City Park with horse names, jockeys, and weights across six races per track, including first race five furlongs at Fair Grounds and subsequent events with six furlongs to seven furlongs, showing entrants like Usury Pinsticker Fairview Al Russell Merry Helle Arco Spring and more.
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New Orleans
Fair Grounds
Usury
Pinsticker
Fairview
al Russell
Merry Helle
Arco Spring
Lord Kent
Catherine HL
Baile Pepper
Vivian
Lorietta K
Sneer
Paul Clifford
Ingolthrift
Lady Ray
Allisia
Hyacinth
Lenn J
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de Reszké
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Formaster
Toinette
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Marvel P
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Keynote
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Nameoki
Hurley Faces Uncertain Future After Serious Injury
Daniel J. Hurley of Harvard varsity football returns home from treatment in the mountains after a severe injury with a brain blood clot from a Carlisle game. Surgeons refuse to clear him for medical school until a full examination confirms his condition, leaving his ambition to study surgery in doubt and Harvard fans anxious.
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Mass
Daniel J. Hurley
Harvard
Harvard Medical School
Carlisle Indians
Hurley
Cambridge
O'Brien to Fight Ruhlin in Twenty Round Clash
Special to The Washington Lost New York reports champion Jack O'Brien will meet Gus Ruhlin on March 1 at the Tuxedo Athletic Club near Philadelphia in a twenty round bout. The match, signed by both fighters and William Rocap, features catch weights and a likely knockout within the time limit. O'Brien predicts a decisive victory and hints at future bouts against Marvin Hart and possibly Tommy Ryan.
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Washington
New York
Jack O'Brien
Gus Ruhlin
Tuxedo Athletic Club
Philadelphia
William Rocap
O'Brien
Ruhlin
Rocap
O’ Rourke
Marvin Hart
Tommy Ryan
Johns Hopkins indoor meet entries released for February 23
Johns Hopkins University Athletic Association announces entry blanks for an indoor meet at Fifth Regiment Armory Baltimore on February 23. Events include scratch and handicap races from 44 yards to a mile, hurdles, field events, and relays for schools colleges and clubs. Entries close January 27 with W C Smith.
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Johns Hopkins University Athletic Association
Fifth Regiment Armory
Baltimore
W. C. Smith
Johns Hopkins University
Baseball notes hint at a busy winter for majors and minors
The piece describes moves around Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Boston as teams prepare for spring. Talks of trades, player recoveries, and training camps span Cincinnati’s Flaherty dispute, Delehanty to Cincinnati, Waddell’s return to pitching, Hanlon in Cincinnati, and Comiskey's rift with Johnson. It notes activity in Elkton Maryland for a six club league and previews St. Louis Browns’ talent, with references to Parker, Herrmann, Hedges, and Malaria affecting Tom Jones.
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Maryland
John Saylor
Boston Americans
Virginia
Springs
Cincinnati
Flaherty
Pittsburg
Reds
Barney Dreyfuss
Duffy
Phillies
Savannah
Wmtil
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Athletics
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Jim Delehanty
Hinchman
Hanlon
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Ned Hanton
Cincinnati Eds
Ned
Brooklyn
Garry Herrmann
Hedges
St. Louis Browns
Wallace
Tom Jones
Tom
George Stone
Chicago Americans
Fisher
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Johnson
White Sox
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Chicago
White
Chicago lists seven top athletes joining University squad
Chicago athletic officials announced seven new student athletes for the winter quarter, including Prince a formidable 215 pounder from Shattuck, Taylor a 200 pound Des Moines star fullback, and others from Englewood Maine Princeton and Crown Point. Harvard abandons Southern trip for Easter recess and plans two week Richmond stay due to outdoor practice limits.
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University of Chicago
Prince
Shattuck Military Academy
Bezdek
Taylor
Des Moines
Maddigan
Englewood High School
Moody
University of Maine
Dickinson
Tufts
Comstock
Princeton
Hyde Park High School
Rudolph
Crown Potnat
Ind
Basketball Games Schedule for Washington City League
At a YMCA meeting the Washington City Basketball League adopted a full remainder schedule. Dates run January 9 to March 21 with matchups including Carroll Institute Epiphany Ordways First Battalion Young Men’s Christian Association Columbia Athletic Club and others. Home teams listed first.
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Young Men's Christian Association
Carroll Institute Va
Epiphany
Ordways Va
Firat Battalion
Ordway Rifiea Va
Firat Battalion Ve. Carrolla
Ordway
Young Men’s Christian Association
Columbia Athletic Club
Carrolls
First Battalion
Ordways
Carroll
Oréways
Epiphany Va
Carrola
Carrollm
Columbia
Athletic Club
Carrolls Va
Carrolla
Young Men's Christian Asociation
Young Men's, Christian Association
Carroll Va
Young Man‘a Christian Association
Ordwaya
Oniways
Mixed Wrestling Tonight at Washing ton Barracks for Fund
Phillips and Owens Phillips meet Japan expert Uchimura in a mixed catch-as-catch-can and jiu jitsu bout to raise funds for the Engineer Corps gymnasium. First fall likely catch as catch can, second fall jiu jitsu, third by coin toss. Large crowd expected. a strong showing could lead to more matches in the city.
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Phillips
Philips
Washington
Duel in the woods ends with officers wounded near Scranton
In Tobyhanna woods, about twenty miles from Scranton, a gun duel left John A. Brown mortally wounded with head and chest injuries and Charles Beggs, a city detective, severely wounded with a gunshot through the arm. Beggs and fellow officers had gone to arrest Brown on burglary charges when Brown opened fire.
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Scranton
Tobyhanna
John A. Brown
Charlies Beggs
Beggs
Brown
Havana Free of Yellow Jacket Disease Ends in City
Havana reports the last case of yellow fever has disappeared with no cases under observation. Since October there have been sixty nine cases, twenty three deaths, and forty six recoveries. most recent cases traced to Spanish hospitals. Two of yesterday's three remaining cases were discharged and one died.
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Havana
Virginian author Hicks weds former schoolteacher Katherine Adams
John Henry Hicks manager of the Tl oO ranch in Mexico married Katherine Adams daughter of editor Edward F. Adams in San Francisco. Hicks first met her when she was a Tempe Arizona schoolteacher. Mexican friends sent a box of dolls representing Wister characters. They will live on the E O ranch south of the Rio Grande about 150 miles from El Paso.
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Jan. A
Owen Wister
The
Virginian
John Henry Hicks
Tl. Oo
Mexico
Katherine Adams
Edward F. Adams
Hicks
Tempe
Ariz
Wister
Icks
Rio Grande
EA Paso
Legal Action Aims to Remove Indiana Secretary of State
At a conference in Indianapolis on January 3 Gov Heary former U S Attorney General W H H Miller and County Prosecuting Attorney Charles Benedict decided to bring action in Marion County Circuit Court to compel Daniel E Storms secretary of state to vacate office. The move comes after Storms refused to resign on the governor's demand.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Heary
United States
W. H. H. Miller
Charles Benedict
Marion County
Daniel E. Storms
Storms
Physician Kills Himself in Bed at Alliance Ohio
Dr. M. King a noted Alliance physician died by self inflicted gunshot this morning while in bed A divorce suit against his wife had been filed months earlier Letters found today suggest reconciliation was near Autoload roads autos destroy roads New Jersey officials urge restrictions on tires chains blowers and a tax proportional to auto power
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Alliance
Ohio
M. King
New Jersey
Trenton
E C. Hutchinson
Gov
Stokes
Colored Greek Letter Fraternity Organizes At Ohio State
Columbus Ohio January reports the first national Greek letter college fraternity for colored students, Pi Gamma Omicron, organized by eleven students at Ohio State University. Charters to be granted to Chicago India Denison Fisk Tennessee Hampton Wilberforce Virginia and others.
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Columbus
Onin
Ohio State University
Pi Gamma Omicron
Chicago
India
Ten Eyck Jr to Leave Syracuse for Penn U
It became known today through informants in New York that Jim Ten Eyck Jr will depart Syracuse after the current academic year and enroll at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Washington Post
New York
Jim Ten Eyck, Jr
Syracuse
University of Pennsylvania
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