Challa Birstens drives in and stars in Birmingham win
Birmingham beat Chattanooga 14 to 3 as Challa Birstens hits three including a homer, Ware shines in relief. Heavy field due to rain delays 45 minutes, game called at end of seventh for darkness.
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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1912
Page
3
Birmingham beat Chattanooga 14 to 3 as Challa Birstens hits three including a homer, Ware shines in relief. Heavy field due to rain delays 45 minutes, game called at end of seventh for darkness.
Savannah Georgia June 4 Savannah wins opening series game 4 to 1 over Columbia. Unearned runs only amid fielding errors and double plays starring Hoey Mayer and Colby. Batteries Armetronge Glebel Smith Erwin Time 1 50 Umpire Kelly. Also Babies defeat Foxes 4 2 in Columbus with Columbuses errors guiding Albany’s win. McCormack ill, Manning pitched, Day catch saved bases. Time 1 40 Umpire Pender.
Washington graduates face a dress code requiring plain white frocks and no frills. The June 3 report notes the board of education bans silks satins low necklines and jewels, insisting graduates wear simple, modest gowns reflecting their own air.
National League action features Marquard earning his seventh straight win for New York, defeating St Louis 8 to 3 as Myers homered to left field grandstand. Reds edge Dodgers 7 to 4 after a triple play near the eighth inning. Cubs topple Doves 4 to 3 on Houser's homer paced by strong defense. Phillies rally to beat Pittsburgh 4 to 3, Magee robbing Byrne of a homer in the late innings.
In Cleveland on June 3, the Naps lost to the Red Sox 4 to 3 after Boston surged with three first-inning runs. Easterly homered for Cleveland, while Blanding exited early for Boston. Also, in Detroit, Warhop faltered as the Tigers beat the Yanks 4 to 1, and Philadelphia downed Chicago 8 to 4. Washington routed St Louis 13 to 4 as Low Criger returned to St Louis catching duties.
Seaboard announces discounted round trip fares from major stations for the Democratic Nation al convention in Baltimore. Tickets at $21.35 from Atlanta will go on sale June 20 through 24 via all rail or by Norfolk steamers to Raleigh Richmond and Washington.
Leach Cross defeated Knockout Brown in a ten round bout at Madison Square Garden. Cross weighed 133 pounds, Brown 35 pounds heavier. Brown led early with body work, Cross controlled later rounds with superior left jabs and right hooks. Cross scored two knockdowns in rounds five and seven but Brown recovered each time. The final rounds saw Brown rally, but Cross maintained the edge to the end.
The piece presents Q and A on sports topics by Dick Jemison, Sporting Editor, including the last Mobile versus Atlanta score 8 to 5 with Atkins as Atlanta’s pitcher. It also asks how to compute fielding average and Athens base averages, and explains dividing chances accepted by total chances for a player, plus stolen bases per gains.
A compact digest of historical baseball results and feats from 1886 to 1911, noting 13 innings 1-1 ties for Detroit and Washington, Pittsburg’s 5-0 win over Boston, late surges by various pitchers, long scoreless Cubs-Boston games, Moriecalt Brown’s 12th inning homer, Phillies and Giants rallies, and Cincinnati’s 26-3 offensive outburst with 23 hits including four doubles, three triples and a homer, a season team record.
Vague OCR fragment hints at a resignation from the judiciary committee in Washington. Mentions a chairman and ranking member, outlining leadership changes but lacking clear names, dates, or outcomes.
Edward Bloohtingner, secretary of the International Hotel Workers Union, predicts victory for the striking waiters across New York’s hotels and clubs. Water proprietors indicate openness to higher wages and rule changes but refuse union recognition. Reports vary on the number of striking workers, with hotel managers claiming about one third of 4,000, and some hotels preemptively staffed with alternative workers. Delegate Muller handles union talks with hotel owners.
Local theater notes praise Matthews and Alshayne as the class of the Forsyth vaudeville bill. Gillis and Mabel Taliaferro head the program with supporting turns by Shep Camp, Darrell and Conway, The Windger trio, The Great Lavier, and Charles Montreil. The article lauds the duo for fresh material and strong audience response.
Annual round trip to St Simons Cumberland and Jacksonville offered for 6.00 and Tampa 8.00 with parlor and sleeping cars. Departure Friday June 14. Information City Ticket Office 70 Peachtree.
Washington falls silent as a $50,000 appropriation for the entertainment of delegates to the international chambers of commerce and industrial associations congress in Boston is swept away. Representative Peters of Massachusetts laments the defeat and accepts a Senate substitute authorizing the president to invite delegates, while former Speaker Cannon criticizes the lack of hospitality. The government will issue invitations without meals or hotel accommodations.
Washington on June 3 the house judiciary committee nears completion of its review of charges against Judge Robert W Archbald of the commerce court The last witness B F Cele a coal operator from Philadelphia secured letters and will finish testimony after returning tomorrow United States Attorney Wise of New York criticized Archbalds conduct in wire tapping and anti trust cases and argued fines for defendants were too lenient He condemned the use of no contest pleas and cited court records in his appeal.
In Raleigh a Seaboard Air Line unmanned engine rolled downhill from the yards and struck Passenger Train No 3 near Neuse on a dangerous curve. Engineer W B Kirkwood of Air Point Va was killed. relief and wrecking trains responded as officials investigate how the engine escaped.
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