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Smoot (Utah) Pittman (Nev...
William Thompson Smith '26 of East Ely, Nev., was elected captain of the University basketball team for next year when the letter-men met at Notman's Studio yesterday. Smith has been a regular forward for two seasons, and was the high scorer on this year's team...
This year there will be a Second team made up of men who fail to win first string ratings. This team will have several meets, which are being arranged. The climax of its season however, will come when the team enters the Nev. England intercollegiate Second Team Wrestling Meet. This tournament was held last year, but this is the first time a University team has been entered...
Goldfield, Nev., was made of gold dust in a mining boom of 1904. Last week, catching fire, it flashed a tiny epitaph across the sporting pages. It was famous-Shelbylike-for the Gans-Wilson fight in 1906. Previous to the fire, the inhabitants pointed with pride to a certain Main Street corner where stood the saloon in which Tex Rickard "made his start...
...mining business at one time or another. At the age of 25 Key Pittman joined the gold rush to Alaska and worked for two years as a common miner. Later he became the first district attorney of Nome. He returned to the United States proper, and settled in Tonopah, Nev., one of the Nevada silver and gold mining cities. In 1912 he was elected to the Senate. There, naturally a champion of the mining industry, he became sponsor for the Pittman Act of 1918 for breaking up silver dollars and selling them as bullion at $1.00 an ounce, during...