Sally Starts Tenth Season In South Atlantic League
The tenth annual South Atlantic League season opens today with Albany at Charleston, Macon at Columbus, Savannah at Jacksonville. The loop splits the schedule into two halves with a postseason series for the two half-winners. Past pennant winners listed include Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Jacksonville, Chattanooka, Columbus, and Jacksonville again. Charleston returns to replace Columbia.
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Macon
Columbus
Savannah
Jacksonville
Hydro Aeroplane Cup Won by French Aviator Monte Carico
Maurice Prévont, a French aviator, won the Schneider Cup for hydro aeroplanes with a $5,000 prize. Contenders included Roland Garros, Gabriel Espanet, and Charles T. Weymann. Garros and Espanet retired with early mechanical issues. Weymann also retired near the finish due to motor trouble on the 150 knot course.
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Maurice Prevont
Roland Garros
Gabriel Espanet
Charles T. Weymann
Garros
Espanet
Woeymann
Virginia League Opens Today With 142 Games
Roanoke hosts Newport News as the Virginia League begins its season amid good weather. Six clubs compete this year with new players and only one management change Garvin takes over Portsmouth. The opening festivities include a band and the mayor tossing the first ball.
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Virginia Seator
Petersburg
Newport News
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Pla
Richmond
Garvin
Castro
Broderick
Davis
Pelican Catchers From Same League Highlight Kentucky Roots
An odd coincidence links Yants and Angermler, Charlie Frank’s catchers, who began pro careers in the same league and once shared a team. Both came from Louisville’s semipro scene to the Bluegrass league, then to Texas and Chicago affiliations, establishing themselves as top packstops in the circuit.
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Angermler
Charlie Frank
Louisville
George Yantzei
Little Kentucky
George Lelby
San Antonio
Molesworth
Birmingham
Chicago
Frank
Chicago Cubs
Orleans
Rank
Triple Steal Historic Northwest League Record
Spokane reports a first in the Northwest league a triple steal against Portland. Powell Melcher and Altman started on the line drive play at home plate. Also noted a humorous train window joke and college scores from Army Dartmouth VMI Hampden-Sidney Davidson and Washington and Lee.
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Portland
Powell
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Altman
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Virginia Military Institute
Hampden-Sidney
Davidson College
Washington and Leon
McCarty Beats Flynn For White Heavyweight Title Verdict
Philadelphia April 16 Luther McCarty won the white heavyweight championship by a wide margin over Jim Flynn at Olympia Athletic Club. McCarty dominated with sharp left jabs while Flynn battled hard, sustaining cuts and a bleeding nose, as earlier bouts on the card provided crowd-pleasing action.
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Colorado
Olympia
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Flynn
Young
al Kaufmann
al Benedict
New York
Joe Jeannette
George Cotton
Benedict
Georges Beedel
Frank Moran
Pittsburg
McCady
White
Jim Savage
Tim Logan
Tien
New Yorker
Rain Wrecks East Start Of International League Season
Heavy rain across the East forced postponements of four opening games in Providence Jersey City Newark and Baltimore delaying the start of the International Baseball League season. Twenty five of fifty two major league games were postponed with the National League hardest hit only nine of twenty six played. American League fared better with sixteen of twenty six games played today. No day produced a full schedule cleanup across both leagues.
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East
Providence
Jersey City
Newark
Baltimore
Tommie McMillan Signs Contract With Rochester Club
Tommie McMillan, the Little Atlanta boy, signed with the Rochester club and appeared in the opening lineup yesterday. Axtell Standard notes a small audience, stage lights failing, and the drama mispresenting the work, urging comic opera as better value at 10 18 and 25 cents to draw crowds and amuse the public.
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Httle
Atlanta
Rochester Club
Yellow Jacket
Axtell
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Mr. Hyde
Manauger Burns
John
Anderson to Meet Mandot For Lightweight Title Bout
Medford Oregon fighter Anderson who stopped Knockout Brown of New York in the fifteenth round yesterday is matched to meet Joe Mandot of New Orleans in a twenty round lightweight bout here on May 20.
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Cas
Aprio
Sud” Anderson
Medford
Ore
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New York
Tolday
Joe Mandot
New Orleans
Track Stars Invited to Oxford Cambridge Tourney in America
Representatives from Harvard and Yale extended an invitation to Oxford and Cambridge to send a joint track and field team to the United States to compete against a combined Harvard Yale squad. The meet would be staged in Harvard Stadium in June or July if accepted.
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Yale
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Cambridge
America
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Savannah 7 Waycross 0 gives Savannah late rally in Ga.
Savannah defeated Waycross 7 to 6 at Savannah on April 16 as six runs came in the eighth inning after Waycross led 1 0 until Cooper entered. Sipe ordered his team off the field in the fourth over a disputed run, fans roared at a second baseman squeeze play, and Waycross failed to cash in with runners on third and second in the sixth. Batteries Pearce Armstrong Gleber for Savannah Vanderlip Herring Cooper White Shuman for Waycross.
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Waycross
Cooper
Sipe
Tipe
Waech
Pearce
Armstrong
Gleber
Vanderlip
Herring
White and
Shuman
Private detective attacked by suspect then shoots self
New York April 16 Patrick Hayes a private detective charged with criminal assault on a woman after refusing court appointed counsel drew a revolver and fired at the detective in charge then turned the weapon on himself. The bullet pierced his brain.
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New York
Patrick Hayes
Pierre Daucourt Wins Big Air Rage Title
Pierre Daucourt, a French aviator, arrives at Johannisthal from Paris at 6 39 PM to win the 1400 dollar Pommery cap with Edmun Audemars. The race covered 535 miles from Paris suburbs, Audemars stopping at Wanne, Germany. Daucourt’s daylight flight faced Ardennes storms but remained steady until the Rhine valley where winds tossed the plane up to 160 yards.
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Germany
Pierre Daucourt
Paris
Edmun Audemars
Audemars
Wanne
Dancourt
Ardennes
Valley of the Rhine
McGoorty Beats Hicks In Eight Round Victory
Freddie Hicks of Detroit was outboxed by Eddie McGoorty of Oshkosh in eight rounds at Whalsor Ontario on April 16. McGoorty won every round by a wide margin, taking the decision in a one sided bout.
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Freddie Hicks
Detroit
Eddie McGoorty
Oshkosh
Wisconsin
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