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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1922
Page
7
Weather conditions and a perfect course produced low scores as players turned in solid cards. A Baumgartner and D Stapp led the qualifying stretch with strong rounds amid favorable conditions.
Under perfect weather the Maketewah Country Club hosted the first round of the thirteenth city golf championship. Forty-eight players qualified from an eighteen hole medal play with Al Baumgartner and Darwin Stapp leading at 78, while Templeton Briggs and Doug Hill posted 9 and 83 respectively as rolling greens and course difficulty challenged veterans and youngsters alike.
A vintage testimonial-style ad promotes S. S. S. blood purifier as the solution to pimples and skin eruptions. It claims the remedy cleanses blood, builds flesh, and boosts career prospects, targeting young men and women with promises of clearer skin and improved vitality. Sold at drug stores in two sizes.
Boxers Dave Shade and Billy Ryan train hard for the Walnut Athletic Club feature at Redland Field. A decisive win could earn Ryan a welterweight title shot against Jack Britton in Michigan City on August 5, with a $10,000 guarantee. The arena plans July 4 and Labor Day cards featuring top fighters.
Cleveland manager Tris Speaker will miss at least a week due to a severe bronchitis attack that may develop into pneumonia. He has been bedridden since last Friday after contracting a severe cold in Boston two weeks earlier. Coach Jack McCallister will manage the team during Speaker’s absence.
Rain forced the eight round boxing match between Lew Tendler and Bobby Barrett to be postponed at National League Park. The lightweight fight will now be staged tomorrow night after an earlier date was scrubbed last Friday.
H N Jackson of Burlington Vermont on behalf of Commander Hanford MacNider delivered the American Legion good will message to the British Legion at its first annual conference in London. Field Marshal Haig said a suitable reply would follow and praised the ties between the two nations noting shared stock and ideals and the future role of both nations.
Locusts emerge after seventeen years underground and swarm Chicago suburbs. The insects live about six weeks and cause significant damage to trees, with tens of thousands reported.
Officials of the Western Union Telegraph Company in Southern Ohio met at the Hotel Gibson for a three day session to review plans for improving and simplifying telegraph operations. A separate meeting for Northern Ohio is planned in Gove land at week’s end.
Resolutions of disapproval were submitted to a committee by the Methodist Ministers Association after remarks by Rev. C W Blodgett. Rev Ernest Bauman of Junin Argentina spoke on conditions in that country during the morning session.
Rangeley Lakes Maine June 65 The third day of the back to nature expedition ends with all fish present and accounted for though sport is off. The anglers mock fishing lore while praising worms on hooks and the Maine lakes, Izaak Walton, and Omar Khayyam.
Walter M. Hoover of the Duluth Boat Club won the Philadelphia challenge cup and set a new world single sculling record of 7:24 defeating three top U S and Canadian rivals. Paul V. Costello of Philadelphia finished second as Hoover earned a gold cup worth $2,000 and prepared to sail to New York for England to compete in the Diamond Sculls.
Dr. Frank Yocum, Western Reserve University graduate, was appointed director of physical education at the institution to succeed Harry A. Dame who recently resigned. Fred Holtcamp was named head coach of football basketball and track and assistant physical director. Yocum will not coach.
Columbus report says heavyweight champion of the AEF Bob Martin knocked out Joe Burke of Cleveland forty seconds after the start of a twelve round bout. They sparred briefly before Martins found an opening and landed a right to Burke's jaw, sending him to the mat for the count.
The standings list Mobile leading with 31 wins 19 losses at .620, followed by New Orleans 27 24 .529 and Little Rock 28 22 .660. Nashville 27 25 .460, Atlanta 19 26 .422, Memphis 27 27 .629, Chattanooga 17 85 .327.
The Original Ilbolds beat the Franklin team 8 to 3 last Sunday. Breslin and Weikle led the Ilbolds at the plate while Gaines pitched well, allowing only five hits.
Lucien Wulsin tells Emery Auditorium crowd that the endowment is so small the school runs at a yearly loss funded by subscriptions. He notes every cent is used wisely and graduates find jobs. The 104 graduates included two women, with 1,829 students enrolled this year.
Seery, star lefty for the Union Gas and Electric Company, introduced the Radiocurve fooling batters as the Gas Company seeks another win in the Commercial League. He aims to extend his undefeated start against the American Railway Express team at Denham Avenue on Saturday.
Edgar Leaverton, 19, charged with Fay Ballard murder, pleaded not guilty at preliminary hearing and was held without bond. He told deputies booze led to the crime, and said he wished to see his mother in Hillsboro after the arrest. Ballard, a Greenfield dealer, was killed while driving Leaverton to Hillsboro.
Mrs William McHerty forty formerly of Cincinnati died in a railway accident at Blind Bend near Falmouth Kentucky shortly after 9 30 this morning She waited for a southbound train then moved into the path of a northbound train The McHertys moved to near town in April and bought a farm Funeral plans have not been announced.
The Civil Service Commission certified the Cincinnati Postmaster exam results today confirming A. L. Behymer as the top candidate. His name will be sent to the Senate within a few days for confirmation.
The Tri State Co operative Milk Marketing Association will hold its first annual meeting and election of trustees at Central Turner Hall at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon. W F Schilling of the Minnesota Twin Cities Milk Producers Association will describe marketing methods. E D Waid of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation will present the bureau attitude on co operative marketing.
Plans for the Y W C A vacation camp at Epworth Heights were announced by the Camp Committee including Mrs. Frank McGee Mrs. M L Kirkpatrick Mrs. John L Richey and Miss Filmore A special camp for high school girls will open in June The regular camp runs July 1 through Labor Day with woodcraft athletics homecraft and nature study in the program
Promoter Johnny McGann plans a ten round fight at Mechanics Building Boston on June 12 featuring Young Montreal of Providence against Danny Edwards of Seattle. George Ward and Mickey Walker will headline a twelve round bout at McGuinness promoted show in Jersey City on June 27, with the Boxing Commission of New Jersey pushing the match.
Brooklyn on June 10 will host a twelve round bout between Harry London of Harlem and Johnny Solsberg of Brooklyn at the Rink Sporting Club. Also on the card Johnny Gray of Brooklyn meets Eddie O'Dowd of Columbus in a twelve round bout.
Pittsburgh report says Harry Greb agrees to a ten round bout at Forbes Field on June 15. Fay Keiser of Cumberland, Md is likely the opponent with Ike Dorgan nearly accepting terms for Keiser.
promoter Tom Bodkin offered a June 12 bout at Forbes Field between Mike McTigue's protege and Harry Greb. Jacobs accepted, but Bodkin said Greb declined to face the Irish middleweight champion and would fight any other opponent arranged.
Morvich won the Kentucky Derby on May 14 at Churchill Downs with a time of 2 048-5. The event drew about 70,000 spectators and earned a purse of 46 775 dollars plus a 7000 dollar gold plate service.
The United States Golf Association Executive Committee took no action on steel shaft golf clubs pending further study and input from manufacturers. The meeting approved the Public Links Amateur Championship, set details with James Standish Jr., and discussed Walker International Cup plans awaiting British guidance. Several clubs were elected to active or allied status, with Oak Hill transferred to active and Echo Lake confirmed as allied successor after consolidation.
Harlem fans hail Sol Seeman as a potential second Benny Leonard after a twelve round decision over Joe King Leopold. Seeman’s manager Joe Jacobs plans to secure Johnny Kilbane to defend the title against the Harlem standout in New York.
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