Veterans Row 78 and 75 in Schuylkill Challenge
James H. Reilly aged 78 and Fred Plaisted aged 75 raced a mile and a quarter on the Schuylkill river with Plaisted finishing in 8 minutes 35 seconds. The pair, longtime champions, plan to row together annually as long as fit.
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Jim Tencyck
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Ohio Woman Raises Lion Found Starving
In Defiance Ohio a Baltimore and Ohio brakeman gave Mrs. C G Shirley a starving cub found in a freight car. She named it The Bum and fed it. The lion cub grows fast with a shaggy mane dark blotches and a growl. Shirley suspects a circus helper stole it from a menagerie.
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Baltimore & Ohio
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Extraordinary Senate Session to Address Coal Situation
Albany officials announced an extraordinary session of the senate legislature to tackle the coal crisis. The session is planned for the week of August 21 to handle urgent energy concerns.
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N. Y
Senate
Run-up Shot Secrets For Lower Golf Scores
The article stresses improving around the green with run-up shots from ten to thirty yards off the fringe. It highlights Jerome Travers as a model, explains technique including stance, grip, and follow through, and stresses practice of putter use and straight lines to the hole for hills and slopes.
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Jerome Travers
Hagen Back-Wallace Set for Bucyrus Engagement
Bucyrus Ohio residents expect Hagen back Wallace to perform August 19 on the same grounds flooded May 31 1908 by the Sandusky river. Spectators witnessed a free elephant exhibition wading in water up to their stomachs while circus equipment was hauled from the flooded fields.
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Hagenback-Wallace
Sandusky
Patterson to Face Cochet in Davis Cup Semi Final
Australia eyes a Davis Cup final in Philadelphia after Gerald Patterson meets Henri Cochet in the second singles of the Longwood semi final. A Patterson win likely seals three victories for Australia with Pat O'Hara Wood to play Gobert in the other match.
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Australia
Henri Cochet
France
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Henri
Andre Gobert
Pat O’hara Wood
Patterson
Philadelphia
Baseball Roundup With Braves Senators and Giants
Ex Athletics beat Yankees 3-2 as Joe Bush with Joe Dukan helps. Walter Johnson shines for Senators after Red Sox triple play ends futile. Giants tally six hits for six runs. Dodgers manage one. Luque and Markle struggle against Pirates. Cooper limits Reds to five hits. Phillies erupt for heavy hitting to edge Braves.
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Joe Dukan
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Markle
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Cooper
Reds
Baseball scores from leagues and teams
American Association games show Kansas City 5 Columbus 2 Toursville 7 St Paul 3 Minneapolis 5 Indianapolis 8 Toledo 8 Milwaukee 5. American League results list New York 3 Philadelphia 2 Washington 5 Boston 4. National League scores have New York 6 Brooklyn 1 Pittsburgh 7 Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 5 Boston 3. No other games scheduled.
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Cork Devastated by Irish Rebels, Reports Say
London dispatch reports Cork fully destroyed by Irish rebels with the business district wiped out according to Evening News sources.
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Cork
Evening News
Britons Urged to Seek Yankee Money for Industry
London August 00 Sir Charles Higham returning from America states American goldfields await English exploitation. He says English people do not realize the money available in America to invest in British industrial groups. He adds a sound economic policy and systematic advertising could attract this capital.
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Sir Charles Higham
America
England
Sir Charles
Frenchman Preserves Father’s Body in Spirits
In a village near Puy de Dome an eighty year old French archaeologist preserves his late father in rectified spirits of wine. The body rests in a zinc box with a glass window inside a chapel. The son visits daily to pay respects and reports say the body remains well preserved.
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Puy de Dome
Yesterday's Major League Home Runs Totals
Listing yesterday's homers by Powell of Boston Russell of Pittsburg Frisch of New York and Stone of Philadelphia with league totals American League 366 and National League 364 totals.
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Leading Hitters of the Major Leagues
A partial list shows top batting figures with players like Cobb of Detroit greeting a .407 pace amid a spread of others from Cleveland Chicago St. Louis and Pittsburgh. The fragment includes names Speaker Heisman Schang Hornsby Bigbee Grimes Hollacher and Carey with varied averages.
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Cobb
Detroit
Cleveland
Heisman
Schang
New York
National League
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Bigbee
Pittsburg
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Chicago
Hollacher
Carey
Girl Strangles Self With Skipping Rope
In London a girl named Marguerite Martin from Final died in an inquest when a skipping rope attached to a gate swung her off her feet. She wound the rope around her neck to play and, aided by a strong wind, was strangled as the gate moved.
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Eng
Marguerite Martin
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Bunko Johnny Wilson Accused After Exit From Har ry Greb Bout
The report claims Bunko Johnny Wilson crawled from a match with Harry Greb. It notes the saying better to crawl than be carried. Benny Leonard reportedly has enough teeth left for a few more fights.
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Harry Greb
Benny Leonard
Ohio University business men host banquet for summer school volleyball team
The business men's class at Ohio University held a Thursday banquet for the summer school volleyball team. Fifteen guests attended. The event is an annual five year tradition. Thor Olson coaches both teams as they play a yearly series.
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Ohio University
Thor Olson
Chauncey Basers for Five-Game Series with Jacksonville
The Chauncey baseball club faces Jacksonville Sunday in game one of a five game set. Webb will pitch for Jacksonville, boasting a 20–1 city league record. Chauncey counters with Withem or Barstow. Next week Chauncey meets Columbus Panhandles, then Crooksville, both with strong lineups led by the Nesser brothers and Daugherty Rambo pitching, promising solid baseball across the month.
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Lemon mystery stirs Southern California ranchers
A humorous debate in Los Angeles over whether a lemon is a fruit or a berry pits Dr. W. E. Ringle who calls it a berry against Dr. George Clements who notes the lemon becomes a fruit when cultivated enough to be edible.
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Los Angeles
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California
W. E. Ringle
George Clements
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Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Quinine Source in Java Chinchona Forests
The chinchona forest in Java covers about 25 000 acres and supplies the larger part of the world's quinine.
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