Boston and Cincinnati Lead Ongoing Baseball League Race
The Cincinnati club leads the Eastern League battle while Baltimore remains the only East team in the race. Boston's poor form and losses of McCarty and Ryan weaken the club, with Cleveland Reds favored overall. Fall River leads the New England League as Bangor Brockton push to close the gap. Rochester Providence Albany vie for the front in the Eastern League.
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Boston
Chicago
Washington
Cleveland
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
St. Louis
New York
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Louisville
Fall River
Bangor
New Bedford
Augusta
Brockton
Lewiston
Pawtucket
Portland
Cincinnatis
Tommy McCarty
Ryan
Collins
Reds
Fall Rivers
New England
Rochester
Providence
Albany
Chicagos Run Wins Over Washingtons In Twin Bill
Chicago defeated Washington in both games on July 19. McGuire misplay at first base cost the first game. McJames and Griffith pitched well while Mercer faded in the second game before German relieved him. Friend held the Senators in check. Chicago had 9 and 14 base hits respectively, Washington 10 and 5.
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Chicago
Chicagos
Washingtons
McGuire
McJames
Griffith
Mercer
German
Friend
Senators
Washington
Grifith
Kittridge
Donahue
Baltimore Wins Series Finale in Cincinnati Crowd Record
The largest Cincinnati crowd watched Baltimore win the last game of the series 6 to 4 after a seventh inning collapse by Cincinnati sparked by umpire decisions. Hoffer pitched well for Baltimore while Foreman started for Cincinnati before Fisher relieved in the third. Attendance reached 24,844 with 19 hits for Baltimore and 9 for Cincinnati and 4 errors to Baltimore's 2.
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Cincinnati
Baltimore
Foreman
Fisher
Sheridan
Hoffer
Clark
Peitz
Cleveland takes two from Louisville in record crowd
Cleveland beat Louisville twice in Louisville in front of the largest crowd in city history. Umpire McFarland fined McCreery ten dollars for disputing a call. Cleveland pitcher McDermott signed after being released by Louisville. Attendance listed as 18,500. First game final score 4 to 0 with Cleveland collecting 10 base hits to Louisville's 6. Second game won by Cleveland 5 to 2 with Louisville totaling 9 hits to Cleveland's 10.
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Louisville
Cleveland
Spiders
McFarland
McCreery
Cingman
Clevelands
Young
McDermott
Sbatteries
Cuppy
O’meara
Fraser
Dexter
Zimmer
Hill
Brooklyns Lose as Daub Leaves Early in St Louis Tilt
In St Louis on July 19, the Brooklyns fell 8 to 3 after Daub exited after five innings and Harper closed out the game. Hart limited Brooklyn hits while sensational plays energized both sides. Attendance was about 50 percent. St Louis had 10 base hits to Brooklyn seven.
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ST. Louis
Brooklyns
Daub
Harper
Hart
Benchers Fall to Brooklyn in Batteries Note
Errors marked St Louis 1 Brooklyn 2 as Hart McFarland Daub Harper and Grim were the battery pairings for the teams in this score note.
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St. Louis
Brooklyn
Hart and
McFarland
Daub
Harper and Grim
Syracuse Stars Split Twinbill with Rochester in IV Close Games
In Rochester, Syracuse Stars and host Rochester battled to a split doubleheader. McFarlan vs Willis yielded hits and wild occurrences in game one as Syracuse benefited from Rochester errors. In game two Calihan faced Delaney with timely hits guiding Syracuse to a victory as both pitchers were steady. Attendance 6800.
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Rochester
N. Y
Syracuse Stars
McFarlan
Willis
Syracuse
Calihan
Delaney
McFarlan and Boyd
Ryan
Delaney and
Hess
Cal
Han and
Boyd
Albanys Drop Seventh Straight as Springfield Routs Them
Albanys committed costly errors as Springfield capitalized on McPartlin’s seventh inning loss of control to score two runs. Springfield tallied a nine hit attack and benefited from Albany errors. Home runs by Reilly Freeman and J Smith highlighted Springfield’s win. J Smith Brouthers Scheffler Gilbert Gunson added two base hits. Earned runs Springfield five Albany four.
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Albany
Albanys
Springfields
McPartlin
Springfield
Sibecti Cess
Reilly
Freeman
J. Smith
Brouthers
Scheffler
Gilbert
Gunson
Bisons Defeat Providence Grays In Tight Rocky Point Game
In a close contest at Rocky Point the Bisons edged the Providence Grays 5 to 4. Gruber pitched well for Buffalo allowing eight hits, while Knorr was tagged for thirteen. Buffalo held Providence scoreless after the sixth and benefited from timely ninth inning hits. The report notes player movements and a Selee interview on baseball’s moral and scientific progress.
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Providence
R. I
Bisons
Providence Grays
Rocky Point
Grays
Gruber
Knorr
Bomnrig Jess Cessees
Vccesss
Buffalo
Clymer
Smith
Lyons
S. C. Crawford
Bostons
Chicago
Sullivan
Griffith
Lewis
Boston
Dolan
Dan Brouthers
Phillies
Columbus
Syvringfield
Jack M Haston
Ponies
Smith, Milligan
Haston
Coughlin
Arlie Latham
Scranton
Selee
Henry Chadwick
Old Colony Yacht Club sails to Sheep Island event
The Old Colony Yacht Club held its annual run to Sheep Island with seventeen yachts. The Vophsi led the fleet from Commodore Fessenden's flagship, the voyage featured a clam bake and a ball game. Return trip was in a brisk easterly breeze. Noted vessels included Arab, Mad Cap, Edelweisse, Cupid, Juanita, Flirt, Katherine, Mari etta, Columbia, Ivanhoe, Careme, Ibis, Weasel, Starlight, and Enigma.
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Old Colony Yacht Club
Sheep Island
Vophsi
Fessenden
Arab
W. I. Scott
Mad Cap
Co. E. Main
Edelweisse
P. Schuerch
Cupid
F. I. Cobb
Juanita
Johnson
Flirt
Conant
Katherine
Baker
Marietta
Scott
Columbia
Wainwright
Ivanhoe
Torrance
Careme
Ingalls
Ibis
Jepson
Weasel
Silsbee
Starlight
Enigma
Dorchester Yacht Club Notes and Regatta News
Walter Cutter sells his 22 foot sloop to the Crowe brothers while The Hawk cruises home expected Thursday. Katydid beats Elsa in protest over L street buoy, awarding first to Katydid and second to Penguin. Captain Winthrop Briggs to race Kiowa. Kiowa among Dorchester harbor’s fastest boats. Paul Fox charters yawl Jester for season. The Folly and Commodore A W B Foster return from eastward cruise.
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Walter Cutter
Dorchester Yacht Club
Crowe Brothers
Hawk
Harry Smith
Artie Nute
James Swan
Harry Wing
L Street
South Boston
Winthrop Briggs
Savin Hill Yacht Club
Dorchester
Paul Fox
Folly
A. W. B. Foster
Knockabouts Special Race Off Marblehead
A special knockabout race under the Eastern Yacht Club is set for this afternoon off Marblehead. Entries close at noon with W. 38. Eaton. prize money includes 75 dollars for first, 3 percent for second, and 10 dollars for third if five boats start. Race begins at 2 30 this afternoon.
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Marblehead
Eastern Yacht Club
Eaton
Hemmenway
Baptist Grove Meeting Closes In Weirs New Hampshire
The fifth annual Baptist grove meeting ends its week long session in Weirs NH. Rev J B Thomas D D of Newton MA preached Christian Joy and Nicodemus at morning and evening services in the Methodist Church. Farewell service was led by Rev W W Wakeman of Hampton Falls.
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Weirs
N. H
Baptist Grove
J. B. Thomas
Newton
Mass
W. W. Wakeman
Hampton Falls
Talent Surprises At Combination Park With Fast Trotters
Pacers and trotters wow crowds at Combination Park last week with times near 2:12 on the half mile. Benton M. clocks 2:12 3-4 and is hailed as a New England record potential while many new contenders enter the stable scene. Becketwith and Oxford lead a list of winners as Mystic meet looms with 2:08 pace the headline, and officials predict strong form as entries include 2:17 and 2:11 pacing and trotting classes led by riders from Philadelphia Boston Medford and Readville among others.
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Combination Park
Benton M
New England
Mystic
Beckwith
Mustang
Oxford
Fred Wilkes
Marble Chief
Combination
Roan Wilkes
Old Orchard
B. B
Guinette
Woodshed
Gil Curry
Special Auction Sale of High Bred Horses by Cavanaugh Bros
Horses to meet Bacon. Cavanaugh Bros announce a sale Wednesday July 22 at 10 a m featuring trotters pacers gentlemen s family and driving horses full description in Sundays Globe or Lon days Globe
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Londay’s Globe
Sunday Wheels Rally Draws Cyclists to Beaches and Roads
Cyclists flocked by ferry to Nantasket Beach Nahant and Nahant’s Bass Point joining clubs from Emerson C C Wells Memorial and Tremont Cycle Club among others. Riders faced usual tire problems while enjoying Franklin Park gatherings as Conneff sails to England to race Bacon in Dublin for the world title with Bacon’s early one mile and four mile championships noted in English history.
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Nantasket Beach
Emerson C. C
Wells Memorial Cycle Club
Tremont Cycle Club
South Boston
Charlestown Rovers
Nahant
Bass Point
Commonwealth
Naticks
Boston
Handy
Press
Cottage C. Co
Boston College
Sharon
Lake Ponkapoag
Framingham
South Natick
Newtons
Natick
Newtonvilles
Franklin Park
Tommy Conneff
Ireland
Canada
America
Pavonia
England
F. E. Bacon
Dick’’ Russell
Conneff
Dublin
Bacon
Her Majesty's Army
United Kingdom
Live Turf News from Readville and Mystic Circuits
Saugus is slated for next week and Mystic hosts a race tomorrow with three notable maces. Ed Either and partner John Con ley plan a hotel at the new Readville mile track as Nosegay, clocking 2 13 1 2, replaces Mystery, 2 17 1 4, which died in Ed Bowne’s stable. James Golden of Mystic trains Abeto, a pacing mare once timing 2 10 3 4, by Woolsey, kin to Sunol, with a chance to reset her best. Page, 2 15, rises as a top starter for the M and M 10,000 stake at Detroit late month. Manager Hicks of Combination shifts August schedule to clear six days for the Aug 31 meet, aiding Old Orchard. William Phillips of the North End buys a bay colt running 2 14 for road driving. David Brophey, another North End businessman, owns a fast bay mare bred to stop near 2 29.
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Mystic
Ed Either
John Conley
Readville
Nosegay
Mystery
Ed Bowne
James Golden
Abeto
Knap
Sunol
Page
Detroit
Hicks
Combination
Old Orchard
William Phillips
North End
David Brophey
Mystic Park Summer Meeting at Medford Mass
Mystic Park hosts a summer meeting July 21 to 24 with $8,520 in TV premiums. The card lists trotting and pacing races with purses of $600, daily start times around 1:30 PM, train schedules from Union and Lawrence to Mystic Park, and admission to the Parking Stand priced at 75 cents. B SunERt, Sec'y, Great Proprietor.
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Paciny
Union
Mystic Park
Lawrence Willsto
Myatic Park
Gore
Eave Scollay Square
B. Sunert
Sec'y
Tom Laas
Bicycle contests and second hand wheels headline Orient Heights note
Bicycle Notes reports Vim tire firm offers 50 in gold to the rider with best tire repair rate from June 8 to Sept 1, with leaders D Nearing and M O Connor. Ex Captain D J Dwyer mails a Fourth of July letter from Queenstown. New second hand wheel shops open on the avenue near the old Record Pedal store and Pete Berle’s space. The Orient Heights Associated Cyclers announce a second annual five mile handicap road race on Aug 8 for youths under 18 with a gold watch as first prize. entries via J T Weston Bayswater Street.
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Ccssecseos
M. O'Connor
Os Cesar
W. Wallace
Escosssa
J. Green
British Isles
Queenstown
Post
Record Pedal Company
Pete Berle
Albert & J
J. T. Weston
Bayswater Street
Orient Heights
East
Boston
Mass
Pope rewards for bicycle thieves rise with three new cases
The Pope Manufacturing Company has paid three $50 rewards for bicycle thieves in Brooklyn Dubuque and San Francisco. Walter Kickham got three years and three months in Kings County Penitentiary for stealing a Columbia. John Lense served thirty days for a Model 34 theft. In San Francisco two men were caught selling a stolen wheel and received six months in the penitentiary. This brings total rewards this year to fourteen. Bicycle riders value the protection these rewards provide.
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Pope Manufacturing Company
Columbia Bicycles
Brooklyn
Dubuque
San Francisco
Walter Kickham
Kings County
John Lense
San Francis 20
Salvation Army warns on two ex-officers
Brigadier General Brewer of the New England division warns the public that former officers Em'ly Hancock and Mary Gregory acted without authority, collecting funds for themselves. He says they were dismissed for cause and urges supporters to withhold aid, deeming them unworthy.
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Brewer
New England
The
Salvation Army
Em‘ly Hancock
Mary Gregory
Army
Army of the Cumberland to hold Rockford reunion
General Rose Crans, president of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, announces the next annual reunion will be held in Rockford Illinois on September 23 and 24.
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Washington
General Rosecrans
Society of the Army of the Cumberland
Rockford, Il
Boston Custom House Wine Store Offers Five Quart Bottles
Boston Custom House Wine Store at 21 and 22 India St opposite the customs house prints five quart bottles of Old California wines. The set includes Angelica, Port, Sherry, Muscatel, and Catawba, all free packing for $1.00. Full sized St Julien claret also packed free for $1.00, with both lots bundled. Brintnall and J. W. O'Connor listed.
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India ST
Boston Custom House
California
Fr Om
Outdoor Athletics At St Augustine Picnic At Apollo Garden
Peninsula Athletic Association hosts a meet at Apollo Garden next Thursday with stars from New York A C B A A and more. Bets include Bernard Weters racing 75 and 135 yards, Thomas Burke in 440, James Connolly in jumps, Remington and Wright in distance events, plus a team race featuring Mizpah Worcester and Suffolk A C. Prize is a 36 inch silver cup. show begins at 3 p m.
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St. Augustine’s Parish
Apollo Garden
Peninsula Athletic Association
Bernard J. Weters
New York Athletic Club
Thomas E. Burke
James B. Connolly
Athens
A. L. Remington
New England
A. L. Wright
John Bowler
Connett
Worcester
Suffolk
Alric Garland
Bob Callahan
Nick Young
Bernard J. Doherty
D. F. O’brien
J. Frank Quinlan
Fordham
Jere Delaney
Worcester A. C
Joe Doyle
Frank Rowe
Tom Burke
A. I L. Wright
Dennis O’callaghan
Clexton
Wefers
Cashier Vanishes In Charlotte With Company Funds
Joseph P. Myers, cashier at the Carolina Central railroad, disappeared taking $3200 of the company money. His wife and two children remain. a woman named Mrs. Bisonette also left with her two children and fled toward Jersey City. Detectives pursue Myers on a request from the railroad, while Mrs. Bisonette’s location is sought after she took a southbound train.
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Charlotte
N. C
Joseph P. Myers
Carolina Central Railroad
Bisonette
Jersey City
Myers
K.&. French
Berlin Reacts To Germany At Paris Exhibition 1900
Franco-German unity reports from Berlin and provincial papers debate Germany's acceptance of a Paris 1900 exhibition invitation. The Tageblatt sees it as peace security and possible reconciliation with France. Hamburg Correspondent calls it a political courtesy signaling friendly intent if Germans exhibit. Hamburger Nachrichten questions necessity, urging industry-led participation only if profitable.
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Berlin
Germany
Tageblatt
France
Hamburg
Chicago
Hamburger Nachrichten
Bratnlyn Co. price list for liquids at India Street
Brintny n Co. offers Piper Heidleick Sece Champagn and related baskets and bottles with pricing: baskets in quarts at 24.7 each and pints at 26.25 each. Single quart bottles priced at 2.08 and single pint bottles at 1.10. Located at 21 and 22 India Street.
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Piper Heidleick Sece Champagn
India St
Portrait Readings of Bryan and Sewall By an Expert
A New York physiognomist analyzes the Democratic nominees Bryan and Sewall from their photographs, offering a series of character readings in paragraph form. The expert interprets facial features to infer traits and prospects in the political contest.
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New York
Bryan
Sewall
Bryan and Sewall Compared as Leaders and Orators
The analysis portrays William Jennings Bryan as an intense, agile, instinctively virtuous orator with leadership instincts, and George Westing Sewall as cautious, bulldog in courage, practical, and fiscally shrewd. It contrasts Bryan's impulsive, mobCaptivating style with Sewall's conservative, organized approach and strong command, likening Bryan to a race horse and Sewall to a granite-like boss.
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MR. Bryan
Tie
Bryan
McKinley
Sewall
Mr. Sewall
Nebraska
Pryam
Cleveland
Mark Hanna
Bryant
Steamer Raid Yields Arrests For Gaming And Liquor Sales
On yesterday afternoon the excursion steamer Charles S. Mather was boarded by Captain Bragdon and liquor squad officers. Five excursionists were jailed for gaming and two others for unlawful liquor sales. seven and a quarter gallons of lager beer were seized. Names given include Westley Smith and George J. Brennan among others. Additional seizures occurred at multiple addresses including Bartlett place, North street, Henchman street, Endicott street, Clark street, Shawmut avenue, and Compton street, with several gallons of lager beer seized and Elizabeth Pedigo arrested for unlawful liquor sale.
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Charles S. Mather
Bragdon
Westley Smith
George J. Brennan
William Lewis
Edwin Gates
John A. Goss
Albert Groustra
August Drew
Division 1
Simon Kaplan
Bartlett Place
Gabriel de Russo
North Street
James Maguire
Henchman Street
Camela Gila
Endicott Street
Mary Ann Ferrariel
Clark Street
Division 5
Mary Desmond
Shawmut Avenue
Compton Street
Elizabeth Pedigo
Man Falls Forty Feet From Roof Injuring Back and Legs
Bernard Doherty of 6 Lewis Place fell from the roof of his home yesterday morning, plunging forty feet and sustaining serious back and leg injuries. He was rushed to City Hospital for treatment.
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Bernard Doherty
Lewis Place
Boston to Plymouth Steamer Run Features Concert
The steamer O E Lewis ran from Boston to Plymouth in two hours and forty minutes, arriving at 12 40 pm after leaving at 10 am. The voyage covered forty six miles and the outing was pleasant with a concert by Dunbar's orchestra highlighted as a feature.
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O. E. Lewis
Boston
Plymouth
Dunbar
Reign of Terror Ends as Chicago Holds Clue in Robbery Spree
Chicago police tighten the net on the long man and the short man after a furious July 11 spree that included a New York Biscuit Co office holdup for 1760 in pay envelopes, multiple robberies, and impudent notes. Chief Badenach leads the probe.
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Chicago
New York Biscuit Company
Morgan and
Randolph Streets
Andrew Weiss
Harrison Street
Patrick Gill
Daniel Mahoney
Badenach
Negro Steals Ride in Freight Car At South Framingham
A young man about 22 named Richard Jones with no residence was arrested at South Framingham after threatening a brakeman with a large razor while attempting to steal a ride in a freight car. He was 4&f- Tested.
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Richard Jones
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