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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1918
Page
12
St Louis July 17 Braves drop a 4 to 3 decision to the Cardinals in a fateful ninth inning misplay. Hughey Canavan relieved Tom Hughes but failed to catch a pop fly with a runner on and one out, yielding a pivotal double play miscue.
With two out and bases loaded Betzel singled to drive in the deciding run. Canavan allowed eight hits and Meadows the same, two Murphy doubles fueled the rally. Stallings seeks pitching help adding Brennan from the Washington Senators to tour with the Braves in Cincinnati. Slattery scouts for mound material as Rudolph and Canavan stay with the club longer than expected. Cincinnati game Friday pushed to a Sunday doubleheader.
Pittsburg defeats Brooklyn 5 to 4 in 11 innings. Southworth’s passed ball set up Cutshaw’s game winning single as Bigbee scored. Key plays included Ellam, Johnston, Mollwitz, and McKechnie contributing for Pittsburg while Olson and Daubert had errors for Brooklyn.
Kalamazoo Mich July 17 exciting finishes and big fields highlighted the Grand Circuit program. In the 2:10 pace Walter Cox won heats two and three with Betsy Hamlin while Buglight and Belle Alcantara led early. Chestnut Peter topped the 3 year old trot and The Comet won the 2:16 trot as an outsider among twelve starters.
In the first game Binghamton is listed with a 6 1 loss to an unspecified opponent with unclear date. The second game appears to involve teams including Newark Syracuse Rochester and Jersey City in a garbled schedule note.
Hartford hosts Springfield while New London faces New Haven Bridgeport meets Waterbury and Worcester plays Providence in a full day of Eastern League baseball.
Hartford defeated Worcester 2 to 1 today in a rain shortened game. Gardella advanced on a sacrifice and stole home for Hartford in the sixth inning as the rain ended play with Hartford leading.
Providence defeats Springfield 5 to 3 as Spaid shines allowing three hits. Runs by Brausen Hauser Gearin Spaid Clemens Parent McDermott. Errors by Gearin Gonzales McDermott. Stolen bases by Ayers Donahue McNeill 2 Hauser Gearin. McDermott Hauser hit two base hits. Sacrifice hits Lenahan Cameron Martin Sweatt. Double play Gonzales to Parent to Gross. Spaid 2 strikeouts Lenahan 3. Bases on balls Spaid 8 Lenahan 4. Time 1:43. Umpire provided.
The Harvard Club of Boston reports poor turnout for their monthly golf event at Essex County Club due to rain. Percy Gilbert of the Country Club posted a 78, a score not surpassed this year except by Tom Kerrigan in an Army and Navy relief tournament. Other scores listed include A B Denny and M L Crosby with 84s and 86.
In Montclair New Jersey Miss Alaine Rosenthal and Perry Adair defeated Miss Alixa Stirling and Hobby Jones 3 up in a points game. Best ball scoring gave each hole a point and the aggregate counted as well. Jones carded 76 and Adair 79 with Rosenthal 83 and Stirling 86.
Cleveland July 17 August Herrmann chairman of the National Baseball Commission filed an answer in Common Pleas Court to the Philadelphia American League Club against commission members and the Boston National League Club seeking to restrain interference with pitcher Scott Perry. He says the commission was created to settle disputes and that the majority awarded Perry to the Boston club. all rulings are final. Perry, with Philadelphia, had been claimed by Boston. Connie Mack obtained an injunction during July games here.
The Hague July 17 The exchange of British and German prisoners of war and civilians interned in Holland and Switzerland is outlined in a signed agreement from July 14 Direct exchanges will arrange that non commissioned officers are exchanged directly and that those leaving Holland will be replaced by officers held for over 18 months and other sick or poor health prisoners The 1917 agreement sets the internment total at about 7500 British sick or wounded officers and 2500 German officers
Chicago July 17 The National War Emergency Poultry Federation organized today urging the Little Red Hen as a war winner with the slogan Equip the hen to fight the Kaiser. It seeks poultry conservation legislation and nationwide propaganda to boost egg and poultry use over meat.
Paris awaits a verdict as Louis Malvy is tried for high treason. The second day's proceedings focus on the indictment's latter section detailing Malvy’s links to individuals of ill repute including Miguel Almereyda and associates of the Bonnet Rouge. A hush fell when Duval’s name was cited after his execution this morning.
An electrical storm drenched Maine with 1.96 inches of rain in hours. Lightning struck the Pride farm buildings in Auburn, burning them to the ground. The Lewiston Auburn Waterville street railway suffered power trouble washouts and obstructed tracks for about 90 minutes.
Twenty-one women join the Women's Volunteer Ambulance Corps resigning sea and mountain ambitions to undergo military training. Sergeant Clark orders the first drill at the First Corps Cadets Armory at 10 am, with aims to aid state or nation in crises and transport the wounded. Members commit to first aid and motor mechanics, seek certificates, and endure weekly drills, health screening, and eight-person squads.
At Braves Field next Sunday afternoon the Camp Devens team meets Fort Andrews in the second game of a double header tied to the free service series. Devens plans to strengthen its lineup with Fred Tyler, brother of former Braves skipper George Tyler, making his first-string debut.
Hearings on wage demands of station employees and railway clerks have ended. The board is expected to submit its recommendation to Director General McAdoo next Monday. P J Coyle, grand president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Station Employees, reported at a Boston meeting. He is returning from Washington where he spoke for the freight and passenger station service. The Boston & Maine board pledged support for Coyle and denied exclusive representation claims by another organization.
Emperor Charles has granted Field Marshal Conrad von Hoetzendorf's request to be relieved of command. Hoetzendorf, former Austrian commander-in-chief, had been in command on the Italian mountain front and now steps down.
In East Hampton 33 Polish women were jailed as police and State Guard fought a riot by 100 strikers and sympathizers at West Boylston mill workers. Officers faced pepper gas and thrown eggs, while guardsmen finally charged with fixed bayonets to end the melee.
Anxiety over steel supplies for corsets prompts women to hoard garments says Philadelphia department store managers. Harry W. Wheeler told a chamber luncheon that corset steel would go to Italy to aid the fight in the Alps, be made into wire cable to hoist munitions, triggering a corsetieres raid the next day.
The Executive Council was urged by James J. Storrow Henry B. Endicott and others from the Public Safety committee to authorize a temporary office west of the State House for the committee's use due to overcrowded current quarters.
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