Yeomen Defeat Ben Hur 12-8 In Two-Inning Slugfest
The Yeomen toppled Ben Hur 12 to 8 at Cedar River Park in a two inning scramble marked by hits, errors, and wild plays. Bloomfield started for Ben Hur, relieved by Lefty Claussen after two outs in the fourth, while Wilson worked for the Yeomen despite heavy hits. A four run third and seven in the fourth propelled the Yeomen, with Ben Hur committing four errors in the fourth frame. About 200 fans watched as Ben Hur, opening their season, struggled with teamwork against a hot Yeomen offense and erratic defense from both sides.
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Ben Hur Tribe
Cedar River Park
Yeomen
Wilson
Moarkers
Ben Hur
Reinbeck
Boxers Ready to Throw Haymakers in Tonight's Go
Leo Kelly and Bum Stuehmer, both soldiers, prepare for a 10 round bout at the Waterloo theatre tonight with a potential clash against Tommy Comiskey on the horizon. The card also features Kid Fiske and Battling Johnson in eight rounds, with Meanor as the third man in the ring.
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Leo Kelly
Bum" Stuehmer
Ike
Waterloo Thheatre
Tommy ‘Comiskey
Elass
Tommy
Kelly
Schuehmer
Waterloo
Camp Funston
Scuehmer
Camp Cody
States
Tommy Comiskey
St. Paul
Jie
Altho
Kid Fiske
Rock I Island
Battling Johnson
Davy Énport
Kelly Rand Comiskey
Joe Mandot
Denver
Babe Meanor
Rock Island
National League Score Notes From Chicago and St Louis
In Chicago the New York Nationals beat the Chicago club 9 to 5 with Hendricks and Killefer in the battery and Ghicaza and Perritt for New York. In St Louis Brooklyn won 3 to 2 aided by Cadore and Miller while Clemons pitched well. A Boston Cincinnati game was called after three innings due to rain.
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McCarty
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Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Boston
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
St Louis
National League
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St. Louise
Detroit
Washington
St. Louis
Treveland
Washington and Detroit clash in rough American League tilt
In Washington the Tigers beat the Senators 5 to 5 in a game featuring Ehmke Stanage and Whitehouse Gharrity for Washington and Arets. At New York the Giants fall to St Louis 1 to 0 as Shocker Severied Quinn Hannah duel. No other games scheduled.
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Detroit
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Stanage
Arets
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Gharrity
New York
Roa E
St. Louis
Shocker
Severied
Quinn
Hannah
Standings and results from yesterday across leagues
American Association action showed Louisville defeating Kansas City 4 2 and Columbus besting Milwaukee as rain postponed other Western Taras games. Sioux City beat Omaha 10 and St Louis edged New York 7 in a 13 inning affair. Major leagues list scattered results with many doubleheaders and rain delays.
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Kansas City
Columbus Milwaukees
Western Taras
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Oklahoma City
Des Moines
St. Joseph
Innnings
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Joplin
Tulsa
Maha A
Sioux City
Omaha
Amesticar Leegun
Cleveland
Boston
St. Louis
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Detroit
Washington
Toledo
St. Paul
Indianapolis
Minneapolis
Columbus
Tontsville
Plansville
Terre Haute
Rockford
Moline
Efforts to Reopen Carlisle Indian School Gain Steam
Washington moves to reestablish Carlisle Indian School after World War I ending. College athletic leaders and midwestern statesmen back the effort to revive the famed program once led by Glen Warner and coached by Pratt and Thorpe, highlighting Carlisle’s football lore and post-sports successes.
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Washington
Carlisle Indian School
Middlewest
Carlisle
Vance McCormack
Yale
Democratic Party
Glen Warner
University of Pittsburgh
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Guyon
Thorpe
Mr. Pleasant
Garlow
Wheelock
Libby
Old Man
Calac
Red Water
Bergie
Hawk Hagle
Wallatt
Hagen New Golf Champion After Open British Title
West Newton Mass June 16 Walter Hagen of Detroit new open golf champion of America has declared his intention to try for the British title. Hagen will give up his professional post at Oakland Hills Country Club Detroit to become a partner in a Detroit business house and plans to travel to England next year.
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Mass
Walter Hagen
Detroit
America
Hagen
Oakland Hillis ‘Country Club
England
Pal Moore and Nate Lewis Sail to England for Wilde Fight
Pal Moore bantamweight from Memphis and manager Nate Lewis of Chicago sailed from New York on the Mauretania for England. He is to meet English flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde in London on July 17 in a twenty round bout at 116 pounds.
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Pal Moore
Memphia
Tean
Nate Lewis
Chicago
England
Mauretania
Moore
Jimmy Wilde
London
Tryouts for Rifle Team Set for June at Camp Dodge
Initial rifle team tryouts for Iowa to compete at the national match will be June 27 28 and 29 at Camp Dodge. General Lasher announced that rifles ammunition and quarters are provided free of charge meals cost 50 cents per meal and a coach will be supplied. Competitors may bring own regulation Model 1903 rifles with no special sights allowed. Firing starts 730 a m on June 27 with practice day, competition on June 28 29. Applicants should report by June 25 and notify Adjutant Gen Lasher of intent to try out.
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Iowa
Camp Dodge Range
Adj. iGen
Louis G. Lasher
Lasher
Camp Dodge
Southern Golf Title Goes to N Whitney St Louis
Nelson Whitney of New Orleans won the Trans Mississippi golf championship by defeating Richard Bockencamp of St. Louis in a 40 hole match. All square after 18, they halved the next rounds and Whitney birdied the 421 yard fortieth hole to clinch the title.
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Nelson Whitney
New Orleans
Richard Bockencamp
Whitney
Camels and Horses to Figure at Paris Meet
Arabs from Hed jaz with camels and Arabian horses will compete in the inter allied games at the Persting stadium. Camel racing and Arabian horsemanship are on the program as arrivals from various teams, including 48 Czech and Slovak army winners, join boxing and wrestling squads. Lieut Harry Davis named temporary captain of the American golf team.
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Hedjaz
Persting Stadium
Fristensky
Vaclav
Australia
Payhe
Harry Davis
San Francisco
United States
Mark Arie Wins Illinois Target Championship Title
Galesburg Illinois June 16 Mark Arie of Thomasboro Illinois won the amateur state championship based on 600 16 yard single targets 100 shots per day at the state tournament completed here last week with a score of 285 Mrs Howard Almert of Chicago took the women’s state championship with 261 targets of 388 possible
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Ill
Mark Arie
Thomasboro
Howard Almert
Chicago
Soldier boxers abroad protest Toledo contest
Sixteen American expeditionary force boxing and wrestling team members training for the inter allied games sign an open letter protesting the proposed Jess Willard Jack Dempsey fight in Toledo on July 4. They note wages of only a few francs per man during their last trip and say principals will earn thousands. Tex Rickard offered $1009 each to soldier boxers for preliminaries, but they prefer to stay in France and represent the country against allied forces.
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Paris
American Expeditionary Force
Toledo
Ietter
Tex Rickard
Willard-Dermosey
France
Army recruiting draws in young men with enlistments
The report notes several local youths answering the call at the Army recruiting station. D J Ackerman Andrew Marf eld foe H Ricks and Carl C Cr umline enlisted. Except for Marfield who chose aviation, all joined the motor transport company.
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D. J. Ackerman
Andrew Marffeld
Foe H. Ricks
Carl C.crumline
Marfield
Ktorpa
Ralph De Palma Sets New 50 Mile Auto Speed Mark
New York June 16 Ralph De Palma won a 50 mile international auto race at Sheepshead Bay setting a world record for the distance in 26 23.2 minutes. He finished two thirds of a lap ahead of Dave Lewis and Joe Boyer as Mulford led early. De Palma also shattered the 30 mile mark in 15 53 6 15 and the 40 mile split in 21 39 4 10 with an average 50 mile speed of 114.5 mph.
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Ralph de Palma
Sheepshead iBay
Louis Chevrolet
de Palma
Ralph Mulford
Dave Lewis
Joe Boyer
Mulford
Thomas Milton
Tom Milton
Milton
Hoyt the Grinnell Sprint Star Coached Himself
Grinnell Iowa June 16 Charles Hoyt famed Grinnell sprinter who held six state records and a world mark coached himself in early days. A Grinnell resident recalling Hoyt’s high school days described improvised hurdles on a grass path and Hoyt practicing without a coach before four years under Doc Huff led to Drake Relays world mark by running 220 yards in 21 2 5 seconds in 1917.
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Charles Hoyt
Balder
Greenfield
Hoyt
Hart
Doc’ Huff
Gizard
Joe Pezek Beats Wladek Zbyszko In Two-Hour Bout
Four thousand fans in Gordon Nebraska watched Joe Pezek defeat Wladek Zbyszko in one fall after two hours, three minutes, and fifteen seconds. Pezek led after an even start, then pinned Zbyszko with head scissors and wrist lock as the challenger was dazed from a heavy throw.
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Neb
Joe
Pezek
Wladek Zbyszko
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Perek
Altho
Upstairs And Down at Crystal and Other Theatrical News
OLIVE THOMAS star Selznick project Upstairs and Down praised for authentic atmosphere as New York cabaret interior recreates mood. Gambling In Souls with Madlaine Traverse at Plaza overshadowed by tense stock market plot and potential ruin. Mary Pickford in Daddy Longlegs at Palace Theatre, first Mary Pickford company feature, Judy Abbott’s orphan journey from John Grier Orphan Asylum to college, directed by Marshall Neilan.
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Publc
Olive Thomas
Selznick
Los Angeles
New York
the Crystal
Madlaine Traverse
Marcia Dunning
William Fox
Mary Pickford
Jean ‘Webster
Palace
Miss Pickford
Judy Abbott
Palace Theatre
Aviator Visits as New Airplanes Attract Crowds
Lieut A J Nielson visited Waterloo en route to New Hampton to fly under the Midland Chautauqua system amid a prior accident at Omaha where high winds and a cattle-filled field caused a crash injuring the aviator. The Miller-Scales planes arrive for first flights as Milo Miller and crew prepare them. Red Sox acquire Lamar from Yankees.
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Waterloo
AEO
New Hampton
Niela JSON
Sioux City
Omaha
Ak‘sarben
Prac; Healy
Fred Taxlor
Redpath
Milo Miller
Byrnes Park
American woman wins British net title in Kent final
London June 16 Miss Ryan of the United States defeated Mrs Lambert Chambers British star 2 6 7 5 6 4 to win the women's tennis championship of Kent The winner is believed to be Miss Elsa Ryan of Pittsburgh who has studied abroad five years and played many European stars
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Diviana
Korea
P. Luro
London
Ryan
United States
Kent
Lambert Chambers
Elsa Ryan
Pittsburgh
Record price set for Botafogo at auction in Lexington
In Lexington on June 16 the record price for any horse was set when Martinez De Hos of Buenos Aires bought the five year old chestnut Botafogo for 220,000 dollars. Botafogo is by Old Man out of Korea, a Raeburn mare with a famed racing pedigree. Korea previously lived in England before moving to Lexington with Maj. Thomas J. Carson, owner of Dixiana farm.
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Neve
Martinez de Hos
Buenos Aires
Botafogo
D. Alvear
Old Man
Orbit
Ben D'Or
Korea
Raeburn
England
Maj
Thomas J. Carson
Dixiana Farm
Carson
Hans Jacobsen Sentenced to 10 Years for Forgery
Hans Jacobsen pleaded guilty in district court to forgery after passing a check on Walter Bussler and facing a second forged check for 3000 dollars. He claimed a vast imaginary fortune tied to a Wallingford uncle, but insanity reviews deemed him capable of distinguishing right from wrong. He received a 10 year reformatory sentence.
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Wallford
Hans
H. B. Boies
Walter Bussler
Wateloo
Walingford
Jacoben
Jacosen
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