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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1931
Page
5
Lefty Moses Grove earns his 20th win as he defeats Wes Ferrell and eyes a 30 win season while Horton Smith breaks from a 14 month slump to win the St Paul open with a 278 total. The era's best lefthanders and rising stars are spotlighted with records and odds on continued success.
In New York July 27, by U P Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics lose 13 to 2 to the Cleveland Indians ending a 13 game winning streak. Waite Hoyt gave up 10 runs in six innings as Mel Harder held Cleveland steady with nine scattered hits. St. Louis dropped a pair to Boston in a doubleheader while Chicago, Brooklyn and Washington pursued the pennant race with mixed results.
Summary of multiple NL games with uneven scoring. Philadelphia defeated Chicago 3 to 2. Boston beat St. Louis 2 to 0. Cleveland and others on varied lines. Detroits and Bostons split, Chicago and New York clashes yielded high totals. pitching and late innings shaped outcomes with multiple batters noted.
The Messenger promotes its circulation and classified advertising services in a local society column. It invites readers to contact John Sauvage by phone for details on subscriptions and ad placements in Pomeroy Bend-Meigs County.
Miners at Syracuse and Rutland Road mines resume work after a secret meeting with a plan to return. Operators group led by Essek head has asked Hoover to convene a Washington conference with miners and officials to seek a solution. Prominent figures John D Rockefeller F E Harriman and I F Insull Jr are reportedly interested in the Pomeroy Mines case.
Two cars driven by Hamm Karr and A F Istein collided on Second Street Friday night in front of the city jail. No injuries were reported though both vehicles suffered damage. The crash is blamed on the crowded traffic at that point.
Signs displaying the lawful speed limit are in place on Pomeroy streets. Chief Dana Roush says the large, plainly lettered signs aid out of town visitors. On Saturday night he arrested Kenneth Greuser for driving 50 mph on Main Street where the limit is 30 mph.
POMEROY July 27. Members of the Fair and Square Class of the Federated Church and their teacher Glenroy Ewing left for Great Bend to camp two weeks on the Thornton Wolfe farm. Funded by a spring play, the group includes Charles Gloeckner Wesley Drummond Harold Greuser William Strauss Hobart Young Homer Ihle Harlan Wehring Freddie Mescher John Stivers Tip Dye Carl Jennings Edward Thomas Jacob Thomas Elwood Bowers Dick Nye Carl Klees Charles Price and Charles Russell with John Strauss serving as camp cook.
POMEROY July 27 eighth grade teachers meet and approve August 15 as the commencement date at Rocksprings Fairgrounds with no program details set yet. Syracuse-Williams School consolidation remains unchanged and the Meigs County Board of Education sees no reason to separate districts.
Pomeroy Bend Bridge opened three years ago on October 24 under M. S. McAllister who remains superintendent. Longtime toll collectors H. H. Roush C. H. Lawson John Spires and Luther Tucker still work there. Daily crossers include 473 passenger cars 90 trucks 24 buses and 225 pedestrians with other vehicles and even animals occasionally seen.
POMEROY July 27 The Farber Iron Company will relocate from Lower Main Street to the former overall factory plant in Middleport. State Highway Department officials reportedly requested moving the plant off the state highway.
Athens Country Club hosts second round matches this week in the club championship after a quiet opening with several first round results. Notable outcomes include Harvey Baker edging Major S. M. Johnson on the 19th hole and Earl Beckley losing to Harry Beckley in a separate feud.
In Indianapolis and Louisville lists of battery names and figures appear across entries. The fragment mentions battery teams including Hatter Reenae and Cven res Hall Miller Hilde Cesd and Hiddle with various numbers and locations.
Bill Hoyt defeated Ray Willowell of Dayton 161 to 160 in a tie playoff to become the Central Ohio District public links golf champion in Columbus.
The Meigs County Fish and Game Association and the Pomeroy Gun Club were invited to attend the Sportsmen's Midsummer Convention at Buckeye Lake on July 31 and August 14. A local delegation will travel to Buckeye Lake next Sunday for the last day of the meeting. The Ohio Conservation Council will meet July 31 and engineer F A Farley will present his inspection findings of the Pomeroy Athens Road lake site. The convention is supervised by J E and W A DeMoss, life members of the American Trap Shooters Association.
In Syracuse Beach Sunday afternoon the Flanagan Fliers defeated Gallipolis 9-1, a local-dominated club winning easily. In the Bend Athens beat Middleport 7-4 at Camp Hunker, faster play. Pomeroy Recreation League postponed games will be completed this week before final championship matches begin.
Judge J. D. Barnes of the common pleas court in Shelby County will hold court Tuesday to hear motions to make petitions more definite in suits against the Ohio Fuel Gas Company arising from the October explosion and fire at Middleport. The cases involve large alleged damages and are expected to face vigorous defense.
Mrs Clara Thomas, visiting her granddaughter Gladys Worthington in Columbia, suffered a stroke and remains in critical condition. She cannot be moved now, with plans to bring her home by ambulance as soon as possible.
A jumble of team records and scores appears for multiple leagues. Mentions include Toledo, Kansas City, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington, Boston, Chicago, New York, and Detroit with varying win loss tallies and unclear abbreviations.
The schedule lists games across major and American Association teams including Boston at St Louis Brooklyn at Cincinnati Philadelphia at Chicago New York at Pittsburgh Chicago at New York St Louis at Philadelphia Detroit at Boston Cleveland at Washington AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Toledo at Louisville Columbus at Indianapolis St Paul at Milwaukee Minneapolis at Kansas City.
Ohio public links golf at Indian Springs shows Scotty Reston of Columbus as champion with a 299 total for 72 holes and Herb Bash of Indian Springs as runner up at 307. Jack Bricker of Orrville finishes third at 315 after a strong 68 on Sunday.
Meigs County families who left for city jobs and bright lights are returning to rural homes. Thirteen moving trucks were seen from Court Street bound for relatives in the countryside. High city rents and unemployment push residents back to farming and cheaper shelter until conditions change.
The Federated Church Sunday School picnic took place at Rocksprings Fairgrounds with many attendees. Edmond W. Kingsland of New York City plans a flight via Pittsburgh and Gallipolis to assist in caring for the late sister in Pomeroy, returning next Sunday to resume work. Mr. and Mrs. George Dill visited and then traveled to Cleveland after weeks with Mrs. Dill's parents in Pomeroy. Great Bend reports unusually high camper numbers all summer with steady activity at the fairgrounds.
Horton Smith of Joplin Missouri returns to form by winning the St. Paul Open with 278, ten under par, earning $2,500. Harry Cooper of Detroit takes second with 280 and $3,000, with Walter Hagen and George Von Bimore tied for third at 281. A tense final round featured a near disaster on the first tee but Smith recovered to seal the title and add $40 for low first round and lowest third round score.
More parties of campers have not been on the Thornton Wolfe farm there. Hauling of gravel to the Chester Road began again today due to the arrival Saturday night of several barges with a new supply of gravel.
Mrs Hartinger visits Akron to see son Horace and plans further.</S>
COLUMBUS July 27 A R William T Tilden world tennis champion was to meet Karel Koreluh exhibition teammate in a singletea match here today He defeated the Czechoslovakian at Akron Sunday.
Cincinnati catcher Bob Asbjornson will miss at least three weeks after a right thumb split from a foul tip in a game against the Brooklyn Robins. He is the Reds’ second string backstop and may miss the rest of the season. Battery B defeats Hilltop Garage 7 to 8 in Athens Playground League with mixed early and late scoring.
James Boyd Williams aged 62 a railway postal clerk died in Columbus O from myocarditis He had served 27 years on the Columbus Bluefield W Va run of the Norfolk Western Railroad The body will be sent to Pennaboro W Va Tuesday for burial
The report lists Mr. and Mrs. Claude Wheeler of Columbus visiting for business with the New York Central Railroad. Heritage Lewis returns to Troy after visiting Mrs. R. A. Hecox and family. Olive and Virginia Ferrill return to Montgomery West Virginia with Mrs. H F Scott. Tom Ervin visits Greenfield with Dr. Robert Jones. Sara Louise Ervin stays a week. Rose Peters to vacate property sold to Fadley to allow the new high school principal to move before September.
William Stifel, a student pilot, witnessed his motor fail while cruising about 2,000 feet over the Ohio River at Wheeling West Virginia. He managed a controlled glide and landed safely in the river with no injuries reported.
A report on alleged registration irregularities in Steubenville was set to be presented to Common Pleas Judge J. B. Pataley by the county grand jury today.
Paris reports Cochet dominates the 1931 Davis Cup final, winning both singles and pairing with Brugnon to seal a 3–2 victory for France over Great Britain. The win ends Britain's 19 year title drought, drawing a 14 000 strong crowd through heavy rain.
Helene Madison, amid a Daily News water derby at Cer Park, swam to a 7:22.64 freestyle mark, surpassing Martha Nofelius’s 7:33.1 and finishing ahead of rival times on a 50 yard course noting course length differences.
Fragmentary readable lines mention teams and names but lack coherent events or dates. The text appears corrupted with many misspellings and scattered proper nouns, yielding no verifiable incident, match, or notice to summarize reliably.
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