Peace at A.U.A. convention as factions seek unity
New York. The Amateur Athletic Union ends a tense opening day with harmony between college and amateur factions at the 40th annual convention at the Waldorf. Alvery Brundage, 38, Chicago contractor, slated to succeed Murray Hulbert as president, as Big Ten membership and closer ties with the National Collegiate A.A. are discussed. Several records are approved or rejected, including Sabin Carr indoors and De Hart Hubbard for 100 yards indoors, while Hussey’s 70-yard mark is discredited as impossible.
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New York
Amateur Athletic Union
Waldorf Astoria
Iotel
Alvery’ Brundage
Chicago
Murray Hulbert
Guistavus T. Kirby
Eastern Colleges
L. di Benedetto
New Orleans
Kirby
A. A.U
A. A
Big Ten
Iowa
University of the Big Ten
Brundage
Sabin Carr
Emerson Spencer
de Hart Hubbard
Lloyd Hahn
Amon
Lee Barnes
Frank Hussey
Charley Paddock
Hussey
Louis N. Goldsmith
Manchester Girds for Battle with Monticello Team
Manchester Iowa November 20. Manhawks prepare for Monticello battle after a long scrimmage and ghost ball plans. Both teams undefeated last season and tied Monticello previously, expecting a close game Friday barring bad weather with many Manchester supporters anticipated.
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Manchester
Monticello
Winthrop
Manhawks
Greene
Varsity
Anamosa
Finlay
Laddybacks
Manchester Rooters
Nauman Billiardists Win 75 to 55 in Waterloo League
The Nauman billiardists defeated The Cities Oil Service cue trio 75 to 55 in 15 innings at the Popular Cigar store in Waterloo last night. L. Huck had the high run with 11. John Deere team faces Popular Cigar store cuemen tonight at 7:30.
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The
Cities Oil Service Company
Nauman Company
Waterloo
L. Huck
John Deere
Lange's Great Record In 1896 Steals 100 Bases
Bill Lange of the Chicago Nationals stole exactly 100 bases in 1896, a major league record that has never been equaled. The feat stands as a singular achievement in baseball history.
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Lange
Bill Lange
Chicago Nationals
Heisman Claims First Urging Forward Pass Adoption
John Heisman states he was the first to advocate the forward pass in football. In 1895 he wrote to Walter Camp, then chairman of the rules committee, endorsing the idea.
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John Heisman
Walter Camp
Reitsch Becomes St Mary's Rockford Coach
"Fighting Bob" Reitsch, captain of the 1927 champion University of N anois team, has taken over as coach of the St. Mary's Catholic High School team in Rockford Illinois.
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Reitsch
Fighting
Bob” Reitsch
University of Nanois
St. Mary's Catholic
Rockford
Ill
Midwest radio audition draws Midwest singers to Chicago
Iowa champion Miss Honorine K Otley and other state winners head to Chicago for the second national radio audition semi finals at WMAQ. The broadcast Saturday November 24 at 8 PM will feature audience votes counting 60 percent and 27 official judges 40 percent to select winners receiving Atwater Kent Foundation awards totaling 17500 and finalist opportunities in New York on December 16.
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Iowa
Honorine K
Otley
Fayette
Paul Fedderson
Belle Plaine
Chicago
Midwest
WMAQ
Atwater Kent Foundation
New York
Hazel Arth
Washington, D. C
Northeast
Dixie
Southwest
Far-West
Ilinois
Maria Matyas
W. Chester Ewers
Evanston
Indiana
Mary Studebaker Smith
Gary W. Bromley House
Indianapolis
Honorine K. Otley
Michigan
Celeste Cole
Detroit
Wilfred Engelman
Minnesota
Gertrude Schmitt
Minneapolis
Wendell Johnson
Duluth
Missouri
Gladys Morrison Ball
Kansas City
Emerson Brown
St. Louis
Mullen Restored To Good Standing By Boxing Commission
Chicago promoter James C. Mullen, suspended for unpaid state taxes on fights, paid the tax and was cleared to promote another show. Friday night’s feature bout will star Billy Light of St Paul and Gorilla Jones of Akron with Mullen staging the event.
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Chicago
U.P
James C. Mullen
Billy Light
St. Paul
Gorilla Jones
Akron
Davenport Tuesday Schedule Listings
Program and time block listing for Davenport events including sports news at 5 30 P M news summary at 5 40 P M and shows such as Male quartet at 3 00 P M Brandeis players 6 30 P M Mediterraneans Dance band 7 00 P M Cllicquot Club Eskimos 9 00 P M and time weather 10 00 P M plus O Hearn orchestra Omaha 11 00 P M and Harmatt talk 6 00 P M.
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Davenport
Trave O‘hearn
Sander Harmatt
Brandeis Players
Clicquot Club Eskimos
Ambassadors
Phonograph
Homemakers
Muscatine
Trave O’hearn
Radio station schedule for Wednesday hours
A detailed list of half hour to hour long programs for Wednesday including music shop segments, livestock and market reports, weather, history talks, poultry and cattle topics, homemakers hour, sports news, educational talks, travel shows, time signals, farm and home hour, quotations, record releases, book reviews and orchestral performances concluding with time and weather. The schedule names many entities and time slots.
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Umes
Chicago
Omaha
Department of Agriculture
Dean Nordin
American Magazine
Ipana Troubadours
Palmolive
Phil Spitalny
Hotel Manger Orchestra
Twin Sons Born to Mr and Mrs Bennett Clark in St Louis
Twin sons were born yesterday afternoon at Missouri Maternity Hospital in St Louis to Mr and Mrs Bennett Clark. Mrs W W Marsh, mother of Mrs Clark, reported the birth. The twins are unnamed. the couple already has a son Champ, 5, named for the late Champ Clark former speaker of the House.
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Mrs. Bennett Clark
ST. Louis
Missouri Maternity Hospital
Bennett Clark
W. W. Marsh
South Street
Clark
Dry Goods Jewelry and Air Transport Firms Chartered
Des Moines reports the secretary of state chartered Hills Dry Goods company in Davenport with $150,000 capital led by Harry Boodner and Ben Volen, Earl George as Des Moines secretary. Also chartered Yowa Air Transit company in Boone with $25,000 capital, led by Ben Sanders and H. N. Streit as secretary.
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Des Moines
Hills Dry Goods Company
Davenport
Harry Boodner
Madison
Wis
Ben Volen
Earl George
Capital
Yowa Air Transit Company
Boone
Ben Sanders
H. N. Streit
Farewell party honors Bieries before move to California
Oran Iowa report notes Mr and Mrs Harold Bierie hosted with a farewell dance as they prepare to depart for California at week’s end. Also mentioned is the Women of the M E Aid Society planning their annual bazaar for December 6.
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Oran
Harold Bierie
California
M. E. Aid Society
Club Folk Save 21000 In Banks This Christmas
Christmas savings checks totaling about 92000 will be mailed to 1700 Waterloo club depositors in early December by two local banks. Waterloo Savings will distribute about 55000 to 1200 members, with checks likely sent during the week of December 12. First National will mail 37090 to 500 members in the first week, with checks ranging from 12.50 to 1000. A second club is planned for 1929 after Christmas.
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Waterloo
Waterloo Savings Bank
J. J. Miller
Miller
First National Bank
Y's Men golf winners hosted dinner after match
Winners and loser teams from the Y's Men Golf Club dined in the Y M C A dining room. Leader Glenn Beers hosted last summer's champions led by Ray Paul. Speakers included Ray Short and Russell Lamson who spoke on his trip abroad noting postwar Italy and Mussolini's efforts to tidy up.
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Y’s
Glenn Beers
Ray Paul
G. Verne Remy
Walter Bellinger
DeWitt Spensley
Gerald Holton
Ellery Geiger
Graham Hay
Charles McElroy
George Mack
Dale Kilpatrick
George Sherrill
Wayne Smith
H. J. Miller
S. A. Cohagan
Leo Cohrt
al Carter
Orval Hinds
O. C. Thompson
Ben Howrey
Glenn Miller
Earl Smith
Robert Easley
Milton Tarbell
Horace Tracey
Dr. G. H. Hospers
Gisl Lee
Graydon Nauman
H. P. Miller
Bailey Barnes
Homer Albright
Leonard Nordin
Henry W. Dallman
Ray Short
Paul Hintz
Russell Lamson
Germany
Lamson
Alps
Mussolini
Italy
Ding to Speak at Journalism Dinner Club
Iowa City November 20 J N Darling Ding cartoonist will speak at the Journalism Dinner club December 5 Also named to appear this year are J H Furay United Press vice president and John Kelly editor of the Sioux City Tribune The rest of the note mentions Yodines dispersed in small quantities across animal vegetable and mineral kingdoms.
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Ding
Iowa City
U.P
J. N. Darling
Journalism
J. H. Furay
The
United Press
John Kelly
Sioux City Tribune
Wave of self destructive acts claims three lives in Chicago
Chicago and vicinity suffered a wave of self inflicted deaths late yesterday. Philip A. Born 46 head of Born Wholesale Drug died by suicide in his Wilmette home. A M Zinn 55 vaudeville pianist shot himself in LaSalle Street station restroom. Arthur Eckert 48, father of eight, found dead in a gas filled bathroom after job loss. Two others survived attempts: John O Connor 43 ingested poison. Harry Cakless 17 turned on gas but mother aided response.
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Chicago
INS
Philip A. Born
Born Wholesale Drug Company
Wilmette
A. M. Zinn
LaSalle Street
Arthur Eckert
John Oo’connor
Harry Cakless
Pulmotor
Ex-service man surrenders to police for self requested arrest
Aloysius Walding, an ex soldier, walked into the Iowa City police station and swore out an information against himself saying he had drunk steadily for 10 days and wished to be arrested. The county judge ordered a 10 day sentence in the county jail, and Walding was jailed.
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Iowa City
Aloysius Walding
Fire truck held up five minutes by freight train
Fire truck No. 4 at Oak Lawn and Falls avenues delayed five minutes en route to a John Deere plant fire alarm that proved false. A Rock Island freight train blocked the route, engine-less, delaying the response while trucks from stations 1 and 2 reached the scene. The alarm stemmed from a construction material strike on the box pole.
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Oak Lawn and
Falls Avenues
John Deere Company
Rock Island
McKinley Street
Deere Plant
Deere
John Deere Deeds Land to Electric Railway in Iowa City
A deed from John Deere Tractor Company to Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern Railway Co. transfers a small tract at Miles and Thompson avenues to complete right of way for switch tracks. Price is $1 and other considerations. M Cheney, president of the railway, calls the transfer routine. The city gains sewer rights from Miles Street to the river and may build a sewage pumping station on the property if officials approve.
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John Deere Tractor Company
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway Co
Miles and
Thompson Avenue
M. Cheney
Miles Street
Three Sailors Feared Lost After Lake Erie Barges Drift
In a 50 mile gale off Point Abino Ontario three men aboard two barges that broke away from the tug Audrey last night are feared drowned. The report notes the disaster follows a 1922 earthquake in Tokio that damaged 69 bridges and a fire destroying 289 structures.
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Buffalo
N. Y
INS
Point Abino
Ont
Lake Erie
Tokio
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