Fe 1900s to 2911 baseball feats and close games across leagues
A compiled blotter of historic baseball events from 1888 to 2911 noting Niagara Niagara's 58 run inning in Buffalo, 25 hits by George Van Haltren and Giants 19-2 victory over Chicago, 15 inning Detroit win over Boston, notable players Crooks and Young connections, Bill Brown assists, Jesse Burkett's 4 singles and homer, Fiarl Moore no hit, Pirates shutout streak, Corhan hit by pitch near fatal.
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Nagara
Columbia
Niagara
Buffalo
Giants
Chicago
George van Haltren
Detroit
Boston
Charles “Jack” Crooks
St. Paul
Sir Robert
Bill Brown
Louisville
Jesse Burkett
Worcester
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Fiarl Moore
Phillies
Dayton
Mansfield
Pittsburg
Pirates
Leever
Sparks
Corhan
Chicago Americans
Russell Ford
Highlanders
Yatesville Defeats Barnesville 6 to 4 in Classy Baseball Showing
Yatesville Georgia June 7 Special report describes a comeback win by Yatesville over Barnesville Stars 6 to 4. Sewell sparked a fourth inning rally with four runs after a slow start, while Barnesville quarterbacked by Herd held until late. Childs stole home for Yatesville and Bankston hit a Stars homer.
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Yatesville
Barnesville
Barnesville Stars
Sewell
Mitchell
Herd
Childs
Bankston
The
Stars
Salary Violations Hit Southeastern League in Huntsville
In Huntsville Alabama on June 7 officials claim at least two teams in the Southeastern League are violating salary limits. One team allegedly has three players with combined salaries totaling 775 dollars. League directors say Huntsville’s weak performance stems from stronger rivals raising salaries rather than any decline in their own squad.
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Huntsville
Ala
I T
Huntsville Association
Athletic Festival Planned for Independence Day Fourth of July
Mayor Gaynor and committee announce an elaborate athletic festival in New York for Independence Day. The event will involve leagues clubs schools recreation centers and various athletic associations with games and exercises staged in multiple fields and parks across the city.
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New York
Gaynor
Atz Signed by Chattanooga. Spencer to be Released
Chattanooga Tenn June 7 Sper cial Jakey Atz former New Orleans shortstop signed by Manager Billy Smith to play third base report Saturday and face the Billikens. With Atz signing.Collisi Spencer will be released.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Jakey Atz
New Orléans
Billy Smith
Billikens
Atz
Collis i Spencer
John Ball Wins British Amateur Golf Championship
London June 7 John Ball veteran golfer today won the British amateur championship at Westward Ho He defeated H Mitchell of the Canteloupe Club Ball has won the British amateur title eight times and has captured the open championship once.
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John Ball
London
Great Britain
Westward Ho
H. Mitchell
Canteloupe Club
Ball
A Delightful Outing for $1.00
An advertisement notes a Sunday round trip from Atlanta to Warm Springs and back for one dollar, using the A. B. A. railroad line. It emphasizes a pleasant excursion with convenient return time and affordable fare.
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Atlanta
Warm Springs
Would Annul Divorce To Her Dead Husband
Louiaville Ky June 7 After forty nine years have passed and her husband is dead Mrs Henrietta G Liggett of New York filed a petition in court to have a decree of divorce granted in her favor in December 1865 annulled on grounds of fraud She says the suit was filed and prosecuted without her knowledge Abraham Leggett who served as a union soldier under the name Albert Ham died six years ago at the Soldiers Home Marion Ind and a pension they shared ceased She had sought a widow pension but was refused because of the divorce claim.
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Louiaville
Henrietta G. Liggett
New York
Leggett
Abraham Leggett
Bud Tucker Held Without Bond in Martin Tucker Death
Nashville, June 7. Bud Tucker is held without bond after a preliminary exam in Fayetteville. Eight other suspects are bonded and held as witnesses. Testimony places Tucker at the scene with Martin Tucker, including a strike and choke before the man’s death. Win Simmons testified Tucker threatened to kill him if he spoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Martin Tucker
Fayetteville
Bud Tucker
Win Simmons
Simmons
Wandering on the Fields of Green A Grimm Chant
A reader in Chattanooga Times recounts a strange encounter as a man with a club shouts in a rural field. The narrator, hearing unfamiliar sounds, wanders the countryside in doubt seeking meaning while distant voices echo across dales and hills. The poem invokes eerie, unearthly calls and lingering questions about the strange figure.
Opened Georgia Tech Commencement With New Y M C A Building
The Georgia School of Technology began its annual commencement with the dedicatory exercises of the new 75000 dollar YMCA building on campus. An audience filled the chapel as Dr Hugh K Walker spoke the dedication and W D Weatherford discussed Association in the Colleges. Architects Morgan and Dillon presented the building keys to C J Haden and J Kerr. The ceremony opened Tech’s seventh day commencement, with an alumni banquet to follow at the Piedmont hotel where about 300 guests are expected.
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Georgia School of Technology
Atlanta
Hugh K. Walker
First Presbyterian Church of
W. D. Weatherford
Colleges
Tech
College
C. J. Haden
WB. Miles
George Winship
J. K. Qrr
Frank M. Inman
N. P. Pratt
K. G. Matheson
Marion Jackson
T. K. Glenn
A. H. Colcord
Floyd Field
Hlm. Willett
Wallace
Piedmont Hotel
Fruits and vegetables bring joy to shoppers
Georgia markets showcase abundant produce with lower prices. Cantals 10 cents, watermelons 20 to 75 cents, peaches 50 cents per basket. Prices cover fruits, vegetables, and meats with many items listed, including okra 25 cents quart, tomatoes 30 cents quart, and rib roast 25 cents.
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Georgia
Georgis
Veretahblea
Bermuda
California
Campano
Poorterhouse
17th Regiment Ordered Ready for Cuban Campaign
War department orders to General Wotherspoon instruct Fort McPherson Atlanta and Fort Oglethorpe Chicamauga Park to hold 1600 men ready for dispatch to Cuba on telegraphic orders. Seventeenth Infantry at Atlanta post and Eleventh Cavalry at Fort Oglethorpe.
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War Department
Washington
WW. W. Wotherspoon
Department of the Gulf
Fort McPherson
Atlanta
Fort Oglethorpe
Chicamauga Park
Cuba
John T. van Orsdale
Atlantic City
N. 13
H. C. Hale
van Orsdale
Hale
Wotherspoon
Seventeenth Infantry
Eleventh Cavalry
School Building Monstrosity Sparks Graduation Address
President Walter R. Daley attacked the Girls High and English Commercial High School building as a monstrosity and urged a bond issue for new facilities. He also pressed immediate salary raises, arguing merit should determine pay regardless of sex. The graduation at the Grand Opera House saw 132 graduates honored with prizes and student performances from both schools.
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Walter R. Daley
Board of Education
Girls’ High School
English Commercial High School
Grand Opera House
Bessie Levy
Alile Ramsaur
Grace Angler
Ruth Miller
Marie Vining
Minnie Haygood
Atlanta
Misa Dorothy Foster
Agnes Scott
Misa Lillian Johnson
W. R. Daley
Mfe
Daley
Iagic
Giric
Cmasa
Picnic at Colonial Hills Postponed to Saturday
A community picnic at Colonial Hills is postponed until Saturday June 15 due to rain.Residents are advised to watch for updates from organizers and consider contingency plans if weather repeats.
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Colonial Hills
Diplomas Granted as Annapolis Holds June Week Finale
Annapolis Md June 7 after a brief address and diploma presentation to the graduating class by President Taft the naval academy closed June week with a farewell ball from next year’s seniors to today’s graduates. The president urged the new officers to uphold the navy’s traditions and noted this is the first class commissioned immediately upon graduation.
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Annapolis
Taft
Naval Academy
Kern Delivers Long Speech on Lorimer Seizure Inquiry
Senator Kern of Indiana spoke three hours in Washington in support of unseating Lorimer and named Illinois lawmakers Holstlaw and White as having received large sums linked to the Lorimer affair. He alleged safety deposit box use and Browne’s promise of federal office to White, with Browne securing a Cook County job for him.
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Washington
Kern
Indiana
Lorimer
Hitnots
Illinois
Holstlaw
Charles A. White
Charles JA. White
House
White
Browne
Cook County
Senate
Blanding
Gern
Congress in Friday session deals with budgets and bills
In a noon session Senator Kern pushed Lorimer election issue while a $300000 army transport efficiency bill and a coast guard service consolidation bill advanced. The naval budget proposed two battleships, flood control plans for the Mississippi River were urged, and Alaska’s legislative assembly bill gained favorable committee status. Adjournments followed daily business and weather bureau inquiry moved to agriculture expenditures.
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Kern
Lorimer
House
Townsend
Revenue Cutter Service
Coast-Guard
Naval Affairs Committee
Williams
Mississippi River
Territories Committee
Legislative Assembly
Alaska
Aiken
Weather Bureau
Agriculture Department Expenditures Committee
Interstate Commerce Committee
Johnson-Flynn
Berger
Judiciary Committee
Hanford
Seattle
Commerce Court Must Step Down From Its Powers
Chief Justice White warns the commerce court lacks broad authority and must not disrupt the existing Interstate Commerce Act system. He stresses Congress created the ICC to regulate rates with unified oversight and that courts should not override commission orders without constitutional or statutory fault. Senator Poindexter seeks to discharge the commerce committee on the abolition bill, but no action was taken.
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Commerce Court
White
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Poindexter
Committee On Commerce
Senate
Carnegie named first honorary Atlanta Scot
Andrew Carnegie, famed steel magnate and Scotsman, elected the Atlanta Scottish Association’s first honorary member and sent six autograph copies of his works in response. The group, about sixty native Scots and descendants, meets monthly at the Knights of Pythias hall. The article also notes the government’s powder trust and a joke about soaking it.
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Andrew Carnegie
Steel King
Atlanta Scottish Association
Carnegie
Steé
Tish Association
Atlanta
Nummber
Knights of P
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Tda Lichtenstein
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Alice McElhinney
Susie Chambers
Ruth Chapman
Ruby Clay
Mary Comer
Laura Cooper
Sally de Savagure
Ethel Donehoo
Margaret Doonan
Gladys Danson
Becky Eliman
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Tna May Farria
Dorothy Fielder
Maggie Fields
Louraa Floyd
Dorothy Foster
Clara May Fowler
Nell Frye
Annie Mary Fuller
Mary Gathright
Louise Gates
Eloise Gay
Mary Gillespie
Mary Glynn
Jeddie Graham
Mary Gray
Irene Hancock
Elizabeth Harper
Verna Harris
Fannie Henley
Madge Henry
Annie Hill
Charis Hood
Christine Hooper
Ethel Hudson
Alma Jamison
Annalu Jenkins
Gertrude Jenkins
Mary Jerome
Mary Jeter
Manery Johnston
Millie la Fontaine
Louisea Lieper
Ina Line
Fannie Marshall
Annie Magnon
Christine Melson
Gladys Miler
Ruth Miler
Lida Moore
Margaret Moore
Hortense Moran
Jessie McKee
Carrie Parish
Ethel Pelot
Lucy Perry
Carrie Porter
Elizabeth Ramey
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Ethel Beams
Mattie Richardson
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Ethel Rodgers
Rosebud Saye
Florence Shockley
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Tommie Sims
Eva Smith
Frances Smith
Virginia Stanard
Christine Stone
Flora Summers
Velma Turner
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Megara Waldron
Frances Wells
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White House
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Sterling
King Hardware Co
Peachtree St
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Two East Ninety-first Street
Mr. Richardson
Powder Trust
Aurona
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