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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1923
Page
8
Americus golfers will travel to Thomaston on Thursday June 7 for a match with the Thomaston club. A practice match is planned at the Americus links Thursday at 2 30 PM to determine the traveling team. Scores from the practice will help choose the Thomaston trip lineup and officials aim to spark wide club interest.
Macon defeated Greenville 11 to 1 while Spartanburg beat Columbia by a single goal. Augusta Charlotte game was rained out. Today’s schedule features Greenville at Macon Columbia at Spartanburg and Charlotte at Augusta.
Runners show results with scores from multiple games. Cleveland defeats Chicago 6 to 4 while Detroit loses 5 to 6 to St Louis. Washington tops New York 4 to 2 and Philadelphia beats Boston 3 to 1. text includes scattered roster and standings fragments with inconsistent OCR.
Cleveland faces Chicago while Boston visits Philadelphia and St. Louis travels to Detroit in scheduled doubleheaders for all six teams. The Planned games emphasize back to back matchups across the season with each club hosting and visiting opponent.
Shelby Montana hosts a full martial buildup as Tommy Gibbons arrives to train for the July 4 bout with Jack Dempsey. Arena work speeds on and advance ticket orders surged to 400000 dollars with daily inquires between five and ten thousand. Local business leaders eye a Labor Day light between Dempsey and Wills, hoping to outdo eastern promoters.
Five1 team Boswell and Everett secure an 18 to 40 victory over Fifth-2 on College Street. Turpin and Walker top Fifth-2 in a lively district match with Hawkins Dykes and William McMath as umpires. Sam Everett hit the longest three bagger of the game.
At St Louis 2 Cincinnati 3 and Pittsburg 7 Chicago 6 echoed in morning and afternoon games. Repeats include St Louis Cincinnati 3 2 and Pittsburg Chicago 7 6 with Brooklyn at New York Philadelphia at Boston Cincinnati at St Louis and Chicago at Pittsburg.
In Little Rock Atlanta edged South 3 to 2. Chattanooga saw Mobile postponed due to rain. Memphis defeated Birmingham 2 to 1. Nashville crushed New Orleans 10 to 6.
The schedule lists Atlanta at Little Rock with two games, Birmingham at Memphis with two games, New Orleans at Chattanooga with two games, and Mobile at Chattanooga with two games, outlining home and away pairings for the day.
Question about penalties when assisting to find a lost ball in long grass. If you touch or move your opponent’s ball while searching and not improving its lie, you are not penalized. Opponent must replace ball as near as possible to its original spot. Also covers casual water drop rule with one stroke penalty behind the water, keeping entry spot between player and hole.
Nashville defeats New Orleans 10 to 6 after Perritt homers in the seventh with two on, widening the grip on first place. Five pitchers used. Batterson and teammates erratically held. Memphis edges Birmingham 2 to 1 in 12th on Becks double, Morrison strong on mound. Atlanta tops Little Rock 3 to 2 as both starters allow one earned run.
Boston swept Philadelphia with a 10 to 7 opener and a 3 to 2 second game. Powell drove in all three runs with a bases loaded double in the ninth. Miller debuted in the night affair as Philadelphia managed only two runs off his first three batters. Pittsburg beat Chicago 7 to 6 in an uphill affair as five Pittsburgh runs came in the fifth. Grimm missed a game due to minor injuries from a car crash on his way home after arriving from Chicago.
Cincinnati beat St. Louis 3 2 as the visitors plated the decisive run in the seventh inning. Donohue singled and scored from Burns' hit, then Daubert added an RBI safety to cap the rally. Roush homered in the fourth to drive in Duncan.
Brooklyn defeated New York 3 to 0 as Frank Henry, a rookie southpaw, pitched his first major league start for Brooklyn. He limited the world champions to five hits, three of them scratch singles, while the Dodgers swung at McQuillan. This marked Brooklyn’s second consecutive win over New York.
A mass meeting of baseball supporters will be held Thursday at 3 pm in the American Legion hall to discuss organizing a local team. The Americas Municipal band will perform during the meeting, promising a lively event. Mrs Lawrence McPhaul and her daughter Mar Virginia of De eran are guests of Mrs Linnie H Brown on Harrold avenue.
Washington May 30 sensational support lifted Hoyt who was hit hard as New York won the second game of the series 4 to 2. Key in the inning were successive singles by Meusel Schang Ward and Scott off Zachary. Peck Meusel and Ward made standout plays.
SPARTANBURG S. C. May 30 Spartanburg beat Columbia 1 to 0 in a splendid afternoon contest. Fowler starred with a masterful twirling performance while Columbia managed only three scattered hits. R Kelly pitched shutout ball after the first inning for manager Roxy Middleton.
Detroit failed to solve Bayne on the mound as St. Louis won 6 to 5. Shocker and Holloway opened the game but were lifted early with Shock er exiting in the second and Holloway gone before two outs in the first. Francis, recently reinstated from suspension, pitched well until relieved by a pinch hitter in the eighth.
Macon used strong hitting to overpower Greenville 11 to 1 in a Tuesday game. Manager Jack Coffrey's sluggers led by a hot offense, pounding Scott's offerings to all corners of the field for the decisive win.
Concentrated attack in the third and sixth innings built a safe lead for Coveleskie who won 6 to 4 over Chicago. Brower's homer with two on produced the visitors first runs, while Mostil's error and three hits added more and forced Robertson's retirement.
A witty aphorism suggests necessity births invention while laziness sits as its uncle, provoking thought on how people perceive and share ideas. The line hints at collective belief and the humor in assuming universal conformity.
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