The news, as printed onWednesday, September 15, 1926
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As printed: WELLER IS LEADING AND MEANS LOSES AS PRIMARIES END
ContextNine states voted yesterday in the last of the season's primaries, the final tune-up before November elections that will decide control of the Senate, the House and many statehouses. Maryland's Gov. Albert C. Ritchie was renominated overwhelmingly, Senator O. E. Weller and Representative John Philip Hill are running neck and neck for the Republican senatorial nomination there, and in Colorado the Klan-backed ticket went down.
As printed: BOBBY JONES IS SETTING PACE FOR AMATEURS
ContextThe national amateur championship is being played at Baltusrol in Short Hills, New Jersey, where 144 players had 36 holes of qualifying to reach the field of 32. Bobby Jones, the Atlantan who won the British and American open titles this summer, led with a medal total of 143, while Francis Ouimet and Watts Gunn were among six left to play off at dusk for the last five places.
ContextJack Dempsey has held the heavyweight title since 1919 and has not defended it in three years; he meets Gene Tunney at Philadelphia on September 23 in a bout promoted by Tex Rickard. At Atlantic City today the gates closed to the public for the champion's final stretch of work, amid rumors of a new punch and reports from the coast that his health is none too good — while Tunney, writing from his own camp, recalls boxing on the undercard of Dempsey–Carpentier five years ago.
As printed: 'Watch Your Cars and Don't Park in Dark Places,' He Says.
ContextGeorge Nelson, 19, is held in the county jail on a grand larceny charge after confessing to stealing three automobiles and hundreds of tires over two years, stealing to order for garagemen and second-hand dealers. Seven alleged 'fences' have been arrested on his word — and he has a warning for the motorists he robbed.
Dempsey boxes before the critics once more at Atlantic City before Friday's lay-off, and rescue crews work toward the eight men entombed under the Missouri River at Kansas City.
