Camp Devens at Brown

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  Highland recorder, Monterey, Highland County, Va., November 23, 1917, page 1

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  SPORTING Frederick S. Wheeler of Apawamis was nominated to succeed Howard T. Perrin as president Of the United States Golf Association. The Philadelphia National League Baseball Club has asked for waivers on John Evers, the famous second baseman, but Evers has asserted that he is free agent. ! Mike O’Dowd Of st. Paul knocked out Al Mccoy, the middleweight cham pion, in the sixth round in Brooklyn. Brown University football team de feated the Camp Devens engineers composed mostly Of Harvard students and coached by Percy Haughton, BY a score of 40 to 0. ! National Association of Minor Base ball Leagues decided by vote of II to 2 to not permit redistricting OF clubs. Billiardists launch a nation wide campaign to provide hundred am balances for the Red Cross to be’used behind the american war lines in France. Christy Mathewson believes that Rube Bressler will prove valuable addition to the Redland pitching staff next season. Bressler, who was with the Mackmen for long time, pitched well and batted hard in the Southern association last season. Governor Whitman says that as there is no law against boxing in New York legitimate clubs can conduct bouts provided they are con- Quoted in an orderly way. Wilfrid Viau’s Westy Hogan and Omar Khayyam ran first and second for the $4,000 Bowie handicap at Pimlico.

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Tied 1–⁠1 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.