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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1918
Page
9
Round up reports Yale athletics plans under military control to resume varsity competition in football basketball track and baseball with limited preparation time and allowance for outside competition. Mentions Princeton Harvard and Mae McClelland as context and notes expectations for strong performers like Sha Mant.
Comdr J K L Rosy purchased War Pennant and War Marvel for 75000 with Billy Kelly. Eternal is retired from competition. The Walden Stakes for 2 year olds at Pimlico draws 6 or so top juvenile contenders led by War Pennant and Billy Kelly, with Cirrus a potential rival. Cirrus, Milkmaid, and other young stars vie for the chance to dethrone the likely champions as owners, trainers, and jockeys debate strategy.
The opening college football Saturday saw top teams like Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, Purdue and Navy shine while Dartmouth and Penn fell. Princeton edged Nassau rival Princeton aviators 7 to 0, Columbia romped Amherst, Purdue beat Chicago after 24 tries, and Harvard radio eleven plus Navy squads shut out service teams.
Chicago November 1 with public gatherings allowed the championship three cushion billiard match between August Kieckhofer of Chicago the titleholder and Charles Mc Court of Cleveland was scheduled for next Wednesday Thursday and Friday nights tonight’s setting announced a three night series in the event.
Walter J Travis and Findlay Douglas, former national golf champions and rivals, will play a benefit match for the war work campaign fund at the Garden City Golf Club on November 10.
Dr Matthew C O'Brien long serving athletics coach at Central High School Philadelphia has been commissioned captain in the medical corps. Dr Brien was an unusually successful preparatory school coach.
Captain J 8S Carter, renowned Cambridge University rower, has been killed on the western front in World War I. He gained fame for his rowing prowess and served with distinction. His death erases a celebrated athlete from the university and national athletics lore.
New York area high schools stage athletic events to raise funds for the war effort. Schools compete in planned games and meets to boost donations and support national war work programs.
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