The Best Third Baseman Debate in Baseball
The piece surveys top candidates for the position across teams led by Steinfeldt Bradley Leach and others. It highlights Steinfeldt’s reach and throwing, Bradley’s ground coverage, Leach’s fielding and batting eye, and notes Devlin Coughlin Collins Conrey Ferris Byrne and others as contenders with mixed strengths and weaknesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Steinfeldt
Chicago Nationals
Bill Bradley
Clevelands
Tommy Leach
Pittsburgs
Jimmy Collins
Philadelphia Americans
Leach
Steinfeldt
Chicago
Steiny
Third Station
Steinfeld
Cleveland
Big Bill
Coughlin
Chicago Americans
Lee Vannehill
Tanne
Lajoie
Jimmy
Hobe Ferris
St. Louis
Lord
Boston Americans
Mowrey
Cincinnati Nationals
Bobby Byrne
St. Louis Nationals
Devlin
Bradley
Grant
Phillies
Sheehan
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
Sweeney
Bostons
Fashionable Costumes Feature Long Lines and Fichu Drapery
Long lines dominate fashionable dress with coat effects tunics sashes and drapery. Fichu shawl drapery remains in vogue and a fringed white embroidered silk shawl can be dyed to match a gown and worn as a tunic. A Summer Shirt Waist pattern 3535 offers seven sizes and mailed delivery on request.
Dray Sets New Pole Vault World Record at Penn Carnival
Yale captain Walter Dray, a diminutive vaulter, cleared twelve feet six and one half inches to set a new world best during the University of Pennsylvania relay carnival. Three competitors also surpassed the old intercollegiate mark of eleven feet eleven and three quarters, underscoring a record day for pole vaulting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Pennsylvania
Walter Dray
Yale
Can McGovern Make a Ring Comeback
The veteran featherweight Terry McGovern, once dominant, trains hard in Texas with the New York National Baseball Club and reports good form. Observers note his eyes are clear, complexion healthy, and his punch retained, sparking hopes he can endure a new bout against top lightweight contenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry McGovern
Terry
New York National Baseball Club
Texas
Giants
Post Office Clerks Seek Higher Wages and Vacations
In Scranton on May 19 the seventh annual convention of post office clerks adopted a resolution urging Pennsylvania senators to back pending Congress bills for higher wage scales and summer vacations. In Meadville on May 19 Alphonse Vaucher, 43, hotel owner at Cochranton, shot himself after being refused a license. he planned to sell the Peman hotel and depart for California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Post Office Clerks
Pennsylvania
Congress
Meadville, Pa
Attractive Trim for Jumpers and Simple Shirtwaists
The item describes easy to make lace medallion trims for jumpers and sleeves using lace, nainsook embroidery, valenciennes edging, and wreaths of wainscot medallions. It notes a pattern for a one piece shirt waist in six sizes and offers it by mail for cents, plus describes a navy blue serge showy coat with white pin stripes and W formed seams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pongee
Shantung
Rajah
Talking Machines in Flat Prompt Quips
In a New York American item a humorous exchange notes six talking machines in a flat. Four are married and two are single, turning a domestic gadget scene into a playful social snapshot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York American
Cummins the Iowa Boss Who Brought Change to the State
Albert Baird Cummins emerges as Iowa’s pivotal figure in a profile of his rise from carpenter and surveyor to governor and senator hopeful. The piece contrasts him with Allison Dolliver and La Follette, notes his clashes with prohibition, and highlights his appeal to voters and his wife Ida’s political influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Edgerton
Hio
Iowa
United States Senate
William B. Allison
Jonathan P. Dolliver
Congress
Hepburn
Hull
Lacey
Cousins
Cummins
Allison
Shaw
Theodore Roosevelt
la Follette
Albert B. Cummins
United States
Albert Baird Cummins
Pennsylvania
Indiana
A. B. Cummins
John H. Gear
Leslie M. Shaw
Prohibition Cummins
Senate
Ida L. Gallery
Michigan
Ananias Club
Sailbad
Bildad
Inbad
Cummins Lead and Railroads Shape Iowa Politics
In Wisconsin and Iowa, Albert Baird Cummins and La Follette challenge railroad influence and tariff purity. Cummins, once a corporate lawyer, vetoes a pro-railroad consolidation bill despite pressure from party leaders and Hill allies. His stance elevates him as a fierce, principled reformer feared by corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
United States
Cummins
la Follette
Iowa
Albert Baird Cummins
Cummins and
James J. Hill
Des Moines
Ohio Joint Resolution Aimed at Constitutional Bill Passage
Ohio General Assembly proposes an amendment to Article II sections to adjust numbering and outline the process for bills from introduction through governor’s approval. The resolution sets timing for submission to electors and details reconsideration rules if the governor objects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Ohio
General Assembly
Secretary of State
Chamberlain
Hlouse of Representatives
James M. Williama
Senate
Ary
Also Mentioned on This Page
Leach and
First Order
Garry Steinfeldt
Arthur Devlin
New York Nationals
Detroit
Bill Coughlin
Dray
Cummins, Iowa
Tummins
Towa
Srec
A. Thompson
House of Representatives
Apparew Leannis
United States OF America
Carmi A. Thompson
State of Ohio
Columbus
A. D
Wienner
United Stater OF America
I. Carmi A. Thompson
Butler
John Descenti
Standard Steel Car Works
Lewisburg
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