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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1925
Page
8
Jack Keefe recalls a confrontation after a game when Miller taunted him to trade him away. Keefe refuses and recalls a near brawl describing the exchange and his warning that a half more push could have led to a fight.
Mickey Walker welterweight champion of the world withdraws from the June 19 Italian Hospital fund bouts after an ingrowing nail operation. July 2 tentatively set. other card changes include Renault-Solomon postponed, suspensions for boxer fouls, and the Dundee Terris bout moved to tomorrow because of rain.
Meusel Terry and Southworth homered as the New York Giants beat Chicago 9 to 7 in the fiftieth anniversary NL celebration in Chicago. Terry drove in runs with a four bagger in the fifth as New York built a five run lead. The game featured multiple pitchers and a crowd that included former Chicago players from the 1870s and 1880s.
Multiple races report purse $800 events for three-year-olds and up at five and six furlongs. Notable finishes include Rhinestone, Blue Brush, and Alice Lang in the first race with 700 Rhinestone placing, and Pheasant and Earl Coombs in the second. Leslie won the third with Leslie paying $9.30, and Faddist Hastings led the fourth with 8.50. Loggarth A won the fifth with 11.55, while Balsam L led the sixth with 47.30 and Rex Gaiety placed second. Pretext led the seventh with 14.68 to Roxanna at 5.1. Weather clear, track fast.
Horse names and outcomes from Belmont meet include Cartoon winning first race for two-year-olds in purse $1,000, with jockey Hudgins aboard. Other races feature steeplechase, claiming events, and the Toboggan Handicap with Silver Fox and Nash among entrants. track noted as fast with cloudy conditions.
Racing at Aurora features six claiming races for three year olds and up with purses from 600 to 700 dollars. Notable finishes include Hard Guess and Archie A x'der in the first race, Marian and Royal Dick in the third, Fifty Fifty and Wnie O Wynn in the second, and Porte de Oro plus Charmat in the fifth. Scratches include Gold Mount Pocket Mouse Theo Fay and Protectress as track conditions remain clear.
Boston broke an 8–3 deadlock in the eleventh inning at Pittsburgh to win 7–4. Barnes drove in two with a bases loaded single, Meadows left after the hit, Kremer finished. Key hits included Cuyler Gibson and Traynor, with Meadows the losing pitcher in a 2:19 game time.
Frank A. Burton’s Worthmore captures the 8700 dollar Toboggan Handicap at Belmont Park in 1:11 for six furlongs carrying 125 pounds. Silver Fox of the Rancocas Stable finishes a whisker back amid a fast, contested finish. Lizard wins the Wood Lark Steeplechase for Joseph E. Widener, with Isis and Upsal close in the chase. Gareth tops the opening race for Sam Hildreth, while Cutitout surprises two year olds for Oak Ridge Stable to beat Sarmaticus.
St Louis wins 6 to 1 as Dazzy Vance fails in six innings. Rogers Hornsby’s team gets 6 runs, Sotheron completes the victory. Hornsby and Toporcer lead with hits, while Bottomley and Mitchell contribute for Brooklyn. Umpires McCormick and Klem. Time 1 58.
Nashville defeated Atlanta 12 to 7 while Birmingham edged Chattanooga 6 to 5. Other games were postponed due to rain. The Howdy Boys beat St. Clements 8 to 7 as shown in the box score with run totals and innings.
At a University of Cincinnati athletic dinner four next year’s team captains were elected. George Hilker from the Engineering College will lead the track team, Ethan Allen from Liberal Arts will captain baseball, Howard Oexman from Liberal Arts will head tennis, and Jimmy Fennekohl from Liberal Arts will captain the swimmers.
Washington Baseball Club faces forfeiture to the Chicago White Sox after rain interrupted the planned game. President Ban Johnson said an American League board meeting will decide on Chicago’s protest while Clark Griffith’s Washington club must offer extraordinary excuses to avoid the forfeit.
Hartford June 9 William T Tilden III and Manuel Alonso moved to the fourth round of the New England tennis championship. Tilden teamed with Arnold Jones Yale to win doubles 6 4 and 6 1 and defeated Jerry Long Columbia 6 2 6 2 in singles while Alonso beat T E Hapgood Hartford 6 0 6 1 in singles.
Greenwich Conn June 9 Miss Maureen Orcuttin Englewood N J school girl golfer duplicated her score 83 on the first eighteen holes to win the Eastern district women's golf championship at the Greenwich Club links with a thirty six hole total of 166. She succeeds as title holder Miss Glenna Collett of Providence R I.
Hart A. C. opens boxing season at Bellevue ball park with a ten round main event Midget Guery of Newport vs Sid Conn of London England who recently beat Patsey Kline. Semi final features Young Gordoni of Cincinnati vs Stinger Hoffman of Dayton Ohio. Rustic Russell vs Mickey Dunleavy, Young Hopwood vs Oklahoma Smith, curtain raiser Ray Grimme vs Johnny Bass in four rounds.
Parker Campbell of the Country Club Toledo shot a 75 to take the qualifying medal by one stroke in an 18 hole round at Ottawa Park. A 130 golfer field from fourteen clubs vied for five flight spots with 32 advancing to the championship. Harold Weber of Inverness Golf Club, Rufus Manning of Toledo Country Club, and Walter Pacer of Toledo Golf Club were among qualifiers.
In a Deer Creek Commons contest the Federal Reserves edged the Stock Exchange nine 13 to 12. A ninth inning rally broke a tie after Montague of the Stock Exchange and Miller of the Reserves homered. Two runs scored as the winning tally came with two out.
In Jersey City Pracuse 2 4 1 0 0 0 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 checks. Reifhart McKee Keifer Vincent. In Baltimore Buffalo 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 7 6 1 6 14. Fisher Hill Tom At. In Providence 8 5 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 5 9 0 8. Mallett Jacobs Lake Tom lin Dugan Musante Elliott Batteries.
J Frank Baker famed for home runs quits as manager of the Easton Club of the Eastern Shore Baseball League citing lack of full control. Board spokesmen say agreement held until recently when results stalled. Easton players reportedly voted to quit in sympathy after the Dover game.
Aviation experts urged Smithsonian officials to alter the Langley plane label to acknowledge the Wright brothers as first to achieve sustained free flight. The proposal argues the Langley machine antedates the Wrights and could have flown in 1903 with modifications, detailing four minor inaccuracies to fix.
James B. Duke increases Duke University building fund from six to eight million dollars. Announcement made by university president R P Few in Durham North Carolina on June 9.
Sol Ravel president of the Tower Furniture Company was sentenced to eighteen months in federal prison and fined $10,000 for conspiracy to steal and receive shipments in interstate commerce. Richard Shields an American Railway Express employee got six months in jail. Two others were sentenced two weeks earlier.
The Illinois House defeated a racing bill that would legalize pari mutuel betting under a state racing commission. Supporters won 74 votes, three short of a majority, while 54 voted against the measure.
Thomas B. Clines Jr., a freshman, won the singles tennis championship at St. Xavier College yesterday afternoon defeating Fred Lamping, a junior, in a dramatic three hour match by scores 6-1 4-6 1-6 8-6 9-7. The Louis ville resident, who also won the Southern junior championship in 1923, trailed two sets to one before storming back to seize the last two sets.
Zev the European invasion era horse returns to Belmont Park for training after retirement to stud. The Finn Miss Kearney offspring, once the sport’s top money winner, will be ridden by a new jockey replacing Earl Sande who rode him to international victory for Joseph P. Widener.
in Mechanics Hall Boston Jimmy Slattery of Buffalo won a decision over Johnny Gill of York Pennsylvania in ten rounds Gill was knocked down for a count of one in the sixth Slattery weighed 161 pounds and Gill 159 and a half pounds.
Miss Mildred Caroline Seeba the 24 year old dramatic soprano won the first Caruso American Memorial Foundation operatic fellowship at Aeolian Hall New York. She receives transportation to Italy and 1200 to support training and appearances there.
Mrs John Wood Blodgett, a Vassar graduate and wife of a Grand Rapids lumberman and Republican National Committeeman, donated 550000 to Vassar College for studies on home problems. The announcement came at graduation exercises in Poughkeepsie New York.
Bankers here hail a semi official hint that after Mexico's sole bank of issue is set up the government will address foreign obligations and agrarian debts. A payment for land seized under agrarian law could stabilize the money market and ease U S Mexico tensions. The indebtedness is estimated at about 200 million pesos.
Washington residents seek a public bathing place as racial tension returns. Officials propose separate spaces with tidal basin for whites and Anacostia River for Black residents, but Congress must authorize use of the basin before bathing can resume.
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