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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1924
Page
8
Montana Powers leads a bold campaign promising strong action to halt Anagondans. The report highlights the candidate’s energetic approach and call for decisive governance. Strong emphasis on local stakes and voter engagement in the province.
In a high tension Mines league game at Clark Park the Montana Powers crushed the Anodes 9 to 2. Bert Babb and Bill Melvor starred for Powers as they moved into a three way tie for second with Clark and Anodes behind leaders Black Pitts.
Skyock, a pitcher from Indiana, was signed by the Montana Power club per the league bulletin. He won 10 starts in the Indiana league and had a tryout with an American Association club last year, with arrival expected in about a week. Weeley quit due to ill health and returned to California. The Powers may sign another coast hurler.
The New York Saints and the Chicago White Sox plan a barnstorming tour of Europe this fall if owners approve. Preliminary plans include England Ireland Isle of Man France Belgium Germany and Canada with a schedule to be finalized by November 20 and possible U S games if time allows.
William Tilden worlds champion and Walter Westbrook of California both advance in first round matches. Tilden defeats Paul Hartney of Chicago two love sets, while Westbrook beats Marvin B. Joyce of Chicago 6-1 6-0.
Hard hitting by Keen and wildness in the seventh inning powered the New York Giants to a 9 to 4 victory over Chicago. The win increases the Giants lead in the national race.
Cincinnati blanked Boston 7 to 0 in the series finale, earning two wins in three. Roberts pitched as the winning pitcher while Sothorn took the loss after the Braves were held scoreless.
St Louis July 1 Rogers Hornsby Cardinal second baseman and top batter in the league hit his tenth and eleventh homers of the season in today’s game with Brooklyn. Each came in the sixth and eighth innings with no runners on base.
Milwaukee defeats Toledo 8 to 3 while Columbus wins 1 to 0 over Gas City. Minneapolis posts 5 and Indianapolis beats St. Paul 6 to 4 in a sequence of league results.
Veteran Washington pitcher Walter Johnson limited Cleveland to five hits as Washington won 4 to 2, extending their win streak to four in the five game series. The New York Yankees then won 5 to 4 over St. Louis in the last game of their series, with Ward and Jacobson delivering key hits and Shocker affected by a batted ball.
Two baseball line scores show Philadelphia defeating an opponent 11 to 9 in a high scoring game. Key hits include Hellmann Cobb Rigney and Blue, with multiple pitchers recording decisions and a series of walks and strikeouts contributing to the final tally.
Ted Moore a English middle weight boxer was named defendant in a 20000 damage suit filed in the supreme court by Mrs. Josephine Ward his former landlady who says she was beaten by Moore A writ attachment on Moore earnings was secured by Justice Lydon Moore was to fight Morrie Schlaifer in Brooklyn tonight
Paris reports show American dominance across four sports. Yale crews won the eight oared heat on the Seine, Jack Kelly and Paul Costello cleared the double sculls, American women led in swimming with Australia, sixteeen U S boxers fared well in the first day, and Helen Wills plus Vincent Richards advanced in tennis. Charlton broke the 1500 meter freestyle record, and Martha Novelius won the 400 meter women’s final.
United States players Vincent Richards and Francis T. Hunder defeated Willard and Bailey of Australia in the second round of the Olympic men’s doubles tennis championship. The Americans won 6-1 in Paris on July 15.
The Yale eight won the second heat in the Olympic rowing event at Argenteuil France, defeating Canada and Holland. The U.S. crew advances in the eight-oared competition.
The first group of American Olympic athletes left Paris by train for Cherbourg to board the Leviathan tonight. Serenaded by an Afro-American jazz band, they received flowers from French fans as hundreds of friends and students cheered and offered college yells.
American holders Jack Kelly and Paul Costello won the Olympic doubles sculls trials in Argenteuil France defeating France and Hungary on a 2000 meter course to earn a finals berth. Their time was minutes 34 seconds. Switzerland beat Brazil in the second heat with a time of 6 minutes 55 seconds.
In Paris on July 15 American officers struggled in the 300 meter swim, the third event of the pentathlon. Lt George H Bare led Americans by finishing 15th with 3 minutes 18.35 seconds, while Lt Fredericks R Pitts was 25th Captain Don Scott 33rd and Captain E N Harmon 37th among 39 competitors.
Baseball results from San Francisco Sacramento and Portland games with scores and battery lines. Seattle and Salt Lake itineraries noted. Boxing report describes Jack Sharkey defeating Omer Smith in a 10 round heavyweight bout with Sharkey weighing 183 pounds.
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