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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1912
Page
10
Report covers yesterday baseball scores and league standings with mentions of teams in Newfork Lyhohburs Newport News and Brassey Play Teasy. No clear narrative or full team names due to garbled OCR.
Roanoke and Lynchburg clash as Virginia league turmoil deepens with Newports News and others pressuring for Roanoke expulsion. Danville and Lynchburg dropped, Bradley in Richmond opposed to Roanoke. President Elliott in Bluefield. Heins at Norfolk meetings. Roanoke reportedly did not vote on ousting Lynchburg.
Roanoke fans debate shifting league structure as plans discuss moving the Magic City title to Suffolk. Six teams in nearby cities influence travel and competition decisions for 1912.
Major League games produced mixed wins with multiple batteries listed. Philadelphia and Chicago split a doubleheader while New York and Pittsburgh posted wins. Cincinnati and Detroit faced losses. Batters and pitchers named include Wilts Tesreau Meyer, Hess Gowdy Fromme McLean and others across several matchups.
Bluefield defeats Princeton 9 to 0 after Princeton fans and players protest umpire calls in the eighth inning. Carter pitched eight strong innings for Bluefield with limited hits while Peery and Beckwith helped Princeton avoid further runs despite rampant fielding errors.
P J Kelley returns from Philadelphia as Bluefield’s future in the Virginia league becomes a bargaining point. He favors Bluefield securing a berth next year with fair terms, while backing a six-team circuit including Lynchburg Roanoke and others if finances stay strong. Bluefield’s status and league moves hinge on Roanoke and Richmond actions amid internal disagreements.
In the Southern District of West Virginia the B F Baker bankruptcy case schedules a June 25 1912 sale of estate goods at the Idle Hour store Bluefield including tobacco cigars cigarettes soda fountain and fixtures. Terms grant 1 2 cash for first and third groups and 60 90 day notes. second group paid cash. Bid by private offers allowed until June 26 1912 with public bidding if raised.
Bluefield and Gary will play this afternoon at four on the south Bluefield grounds. Batteries listed include Bluefield Baldwin and Potts for Bluefield and Gary Kirby and Karnes for Gary.
The article cites Professor A W Bickerton and a Royal Institution talk on planetary collisions. It describes gravity drawing bodies together over centuries, leading to a collision in about three quarters of an hour. The resulting heat creates a new star, potentially explaining Nova Persei observed in 1901 as extraordinarily bright.
William Ray Gardiner, an advertising expert, lampoons overused ad trends at a New York dinner by recalling a couple naming their newborn son. He jokes about endless invented monikers from breakfast foods to medicines, illustrating his point with playful wordcraft.
June 14 report notes James A. Flaherty lawyer supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus is to marry Mary Bradley tomorrow. Flaherty aged 69 has been a widower for sixteen years.
In Philadelphia Owen Harris a machinist long blind for seven years at Medico-Chirurgical Hospital had sight restored by grafting tissues from a donor eye. The operation involved transferring the eye tissue to Harris and initial returning light appeared within nine days. A second eye procedure is planned when a suitable donor eye arrives.
In Los Angeles a discussion on fright reveals how people react under stress. Creedmore recalls a Alaska steamship wreck and his wife’s odd attire after rescue. Haynes describes a winter railroad crash and a selfless act of giving his coat to a frantic woman.
Frank P. Quigley of Sistersville West Virginia died in Columbus Ohio after an automobile accident during a commencement celebration. Quigley had graduated from the Ohio State University engineering department and was among several graduates involved in the incident.
Columbia Mo June 14 Miss Ethel V Kynaston of Moberly the only woman student in the University of Missouri School of Law won the Karnes prize in legal ethics at the commencement exercises.
A law to equip the army with improved safety apparatus was signed today by the president amid political notes from the Daily Telegraph. The act, approved as a measure to safeguard transports, outlines nationwide adoption of new equipment and procedures for military efficiency.
An advertisement touts Wilson's Freckle Cream promising to remove or fade freckles with a money back guarantee if the complexion is not restored to natural beauty. It promotes 60 cent jars and mammoth jars for one dollar, plus Wilson's Fair Skin Soap, with mail order and local drugstore sale through East End and Bluefield Pharmacies.
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