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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1907
Page
1
The piece surveys major league draft payments, minor league protection, and pitcher performance. It details per player costs, how drafts fund commissions, and the split payments to minors, plus rankings of top National and American leaguers by win totals, shutouts, and strikeouts with notes on notable games and series.
Fragmentary OCR shows an unclear sports note with names Herta and Jack Wacknirn and references to a match or training. Details are garbled with misreads, making it impossible to identify teams, exact event, location, or outcome from the readable text.
The report notes possible meetings in November among weight athletes. It mentions Itial Dinckhuen aiming for a position with Nelson or Britt, with Dan Kelly still connected to Lomplog veo. University of Oregon and Michigan athletics figures are referenced in tentative plans.
From Pittsburgh comes a sermon by Rev. Dr Edward Young of Second Presbyterian praising baseball as a modern Olympian game. He lauds its moral character, teamwork, and broader social reach, noting the sport’s Christian virtues and the value of collective effort over individual glory.
Cincinnati October 14 The California State League was declared an outlaw organization by the National Baseball Commission. Players under contract with National Agreement clubs are forever ineligible to participate in any games played by those clubs. The commission also bars such players from playing for any California State League club or against them at any time.
Belmont Park results list six races with winners and times. Park View won the first over Imitator and Lady Corinne, in 1:07 15. Judge O Gill captured the Autumn Meadow Brook handicap, with Flying Machine second. Castlewood and Miss Crawford secured victories in subsequent races.
Baecial Carces pardoyee of the Standard visits Deer Lodge area as Oct Id-Frederic J. Long, a right of way agent for the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, returns home. Col Repath of Adtorenda passes through en route to Borberrek. Mr and Mrs William J Regan return from a week in Gulte. Joh Murray arrives from Clancy to tend a sick father, learning his parent’s health worsened. McGuire of Fiint creek power house spends a few hours here. The Hyp e mine operates now with three shifts. H Owings and daughter Margaret depart for Dillon after visiting Mrs Owings’ sister. Margaret plans violin lessons at state normal. County Assessor Huffman and wife return from Gold Hill after a month away.
An all star athletic carnival planned for Spokane Amateur Athletic Club aims to raise funds for city hospitals. World champions Tom Longboat Ralph Rose and Dan Kelly are among invited stars, with events including a 10 mile race and various sprints, throws, and relays open to colleges, clubs, high schools, and grammar schools.
A partially legible OCR fragment mentions individuals and a date pattern but remains largely unreadable. It references names such as Mehta and Harding and includes stray terms like blind or prowding piles with a dash. The intended event or action is not discernible.
Special correspondence from the Standard in Billings reports a coroner inquest into the death of an Italian man found in a First Avenue South room. The victim, named as Orrigsi or Valenti, was killed in a sudden quarrel, with an intimate friend at large as the alleged killer. A witness, a German named Nasge, testified about a robbery linked to the suspect. the fugitive Vanelli remains at large while authorities await further developments.
The Central Labor Union requests all politics candidates in the current campaign to publicly state their positions on government injunctions. The appeal, sent through affiliated unions, stresses unions must investigate candidates for judicial and legislative offices to reveal where they stand on government by injunctions and power use.
Special correspondence reports Royeman an elderly resident who died at 4 o clock this morning near Sprhighlt after returning from a trip with relatives. He had owned and worked on ranches and forests, never married, and no relatives are known in Montana. The funeral will be held Monday morning at the O. W. Smith Ray residence with the Presbyterian church pastor officiating.
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