Eastern and National League Scores From Yesterdays and Today
Eastern League results include Bridgeport 9 Hartford 3 and Providence 6 Worcester 2. Saturday tallies feature Worcester 12 Bridgeport 1 and New Haven 13 Providence 6. Pittsfield at Worcester and Providence at Waterbury are on tap. National League highlights New York 1 Pittsburgh 0 and Brooklyn 16 St Louis 1 with several matchups listed. American League actions show Chicago 4 New York 1 and Detroit 7 Boston. other games include Cleveland Philadelphia and Washington St Louis.
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Waterbury
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Leading golfers to play in Merion tournament
New York Aug 24 The next golf event invites top players to Merion Cricket Club links near Philadelphia for a four day meet starting tomorrow. National amateur contenders begin with qualifying rounds in the Quaker City event. Invitees include Bobby Jones at seventeen who lost the amateur crown to Davidson, plus Heron Culmet Wood Platt Chick Evans Travers Gardner Anderson Kirkby White Stearns Haight Styles and others.
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New York
Merion Cricket Club Links
Kiladelphia
Quaker City
Bobby Jones
Atlanta
Davidson Erren
Pittsburgh
Young Herron
Francis Culmet
J. Wood Platt
Harles
Chick” Evans
Jones
Jerome D. Travers
Robert A. Gardner
Hinks
John G. Anderson
Siwanoy
Oswald Kirkby
Inglewood
Metropolitan
Gardiner White
John XII. Stearns
Nassau
Richard Haight
Eddie Styles
Faint Fragment Mentions Treasure Hunt and Weathered Crew
A scrambled clipping references a character named Otten and a voyage on a weather beaten ship. It mentions cash, months, and several yachts with bits about shore leaves and free provisions. The readable core implies a maritime tale with unclear dates.
Yanks Fall Deeper Into Mire as Sox Defeat Detroit 4-1
Boston tops Detroit 4-1 behind strong pitching and timely hitting. Russell earns the win while Leonard takes the loss. Hooper is hit by a pitch, and Walters Shorten Gainer Ainsmith contribute with key hits for Boston. Detroit strands runners and commits several defensive miscues in a game with mixed on base action.
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Young
Cobb
Veach
G Heilmann
Shorten
Ad R
Jones
Ainsmith
Ayers
Love
DO Leonard
Wlagsteadd
Silison
Dyer
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Leonard
Boston
Detroit Gun
Walters
Gainer
Hane
Ruth
Vitt
Mooper
MeInnis
Sehang
Scott
Shannon
Heisman
Detroit
Biase
Pennock
Loeonard
Russell
Penock
Hooper
Janes
Baseball Results from American Association Games
The first game ended Louisville 3 over Indianapolis. The second game Louisville 10, Indianapolis 3. Columbus defeated Toledo 7 to 5. St Paul beat Minneapolis and Milwaukee 5 to 4 in a road contest with Kansas City listed in score column.
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American Association
Louisville
Indianapolis
Columbus
Toledo
St. Paul
Minneapolis & Milwaukee
Kansas City
Cubs Defeat New Haven in Exhibition Rally
New Haven Eastern league team defeated the Chicago Nationals 1 to 4 in an exhibition game here today as Watling delivered a ninth inning rally. Chicago ended 0 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. New Haven 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 2. Alexander Bailey and Daly Courtiey Meyers noted in lineup.
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New Haven
Conn
Chicago Nationals
Aliexander
Bailey and
Daly
Courtiey and Meyers
Shelton Looms to Have Athletic Field
Shelton, Aug. 24. Sidney Bluumenthal, president of the Shelton Looms, has bought a seven acre tract along the iron tonic river to be used for employees. A community house, athletic field, and bathing facilities will be built. The land will also be divided into building lots sold to employees on easy terms.
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Shelton
Sidney Bluumenthal
Shelton Looms
Irontonic
Sydney Ark
Blumenthal
Second Bravest Man Declines Political Seat
Lockport New York August 24 Frank Gaffney chief of police at a local plant employing 1200 men declined the Democrats bid for New York State legislature. Named by General McHale as the second bravest man in the war he says he is satisfied with his police job. His notable war feat was single handed capture of 84 Germans.
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Lockport
Frank Gaffney
General McHale
Ife
Democrats
New York
Gaffney
Ermans
Immediate federal rent profiteering laws urged in open letter
Nathan Hirsch, chairman of Mayor Hylan's rent profiteering committee, presses Congress and Attorney General Palmer for urgent federal legislation to curb rent profiteering amid widespread hardship in New York. He notes offices are filled with tenants paying sharp rent hikes and says moral pressure yields concessions only when landlords relent.
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New York
Congress
Nathan Hirsch
Hylan
Palmer
Press- Wilson
Hirsch
Fly-free Saranac Lake Declared First of Its Kind
Health officials in Saranac Lake New York announce the town is probably the first fly free community. Health officer Trembley says hot June July weather did not increase fly counts and next year there may be none at all. It cost about $1000 to eradicate the nuisance by screening Unanure and frequent removal. Trembley dismisses swat campaigns as useless and urges banning breeding sites.
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Saranac Lak
New York
Saranac Lake
Trembley
der. Trembley
Fli
Proposes New Method for Irish Question
Ave 24 Dublin reports a plan to settle the Irish question by creating an elected constituent assembly to draft a detailed scheme for self-government. The Irish Proportional Representation Society argues the last convention was government-manipulated and excluded public voice. The proposed convention would allow the people to choose their representatives for real self-determination.
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Nublin
Ave
Irish Proportioneal Representative Society
Derby Manufacturers to Sell Army Food at Reduced Prices
Gereiy secretary of the Employers Association of the lower Naugatuck Valley says nine manufacturers will supply nearly five tons of army feed to Ansonia Derby Shelton and Seymour. Distribution will be supervised by the cities while manufacturers financed the purchase.
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Derby
Alig
Boe
Gereiy
Naugatuck
Sanntas
Canounean
Ansonia
Werby
Shelton
Seymour
Catholic Total Abstinence Union Opens in Middletown
The annual state convention begins at St. John's church in Middletown with services this evening. A temperance address by Rev. Pood O'Callaghan of Washington DC follows, a former national president of the union. The convention runs through tomorrow and Thursday.
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Middletown
Conn
Catholic Total Abstinence Union
St. John’s Church
Reve Pood O'Callaghan
Washington, D. C
Tomoryos
Pursday
Unanimous Support for Ireland by Catholic Young Men's Union
New York Aug 24 Unanimously pledging its support to the Republic of Ireland the Catholic Young Men's National Union directed copies of the resolution to Eamonn De Valera Arthur Griffith and leaders in Ireland and U S Senate foreign relations committee. The group praised the Pope and extended felicitations for his efforts in the war era. Archbishop Patrick J Yates was reelected spiritual director with Michael J Slattery named president and several others elected to top posts.
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New York
Republic of Ireland
Catholic Young Men's National Union
Eamonn de Valera
The
Republic
Arthur Griffith
Dublin
United States Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Llouse
Skhljeelion
Ireland
Treland
Vabled
Rome
Winy Hinds
Patrick J. Yates
Jase
Union
Michael J. Slattery
Philadelphia
T. J. Thornton
Keustrer
Eadward R. Reagan
Newark
Charlies J. Stewart
Providence
R. L
Preacher Sermons At Danbury Christ Church
Rev. A. C. Coburn of St. James Danbury preached at Christ Episcopal yesterday morning. Rev. John G. Ladner, Christ Episcopal pastor, preached at the Danbury church.
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A. C. Coburn
St. James Episcopal Church of
Danbury
Christ Episcopal Church
John G. Ladner
Danbury Church
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