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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1934
Page
2
Raymonds out to snap Rowe wins 15th straight. Keane leads Leaguers against Union City in the season opener. The report notes other local sports items including boxing, swimming meets, and a growing independent baseball scene with plans for all star and outside games.
Detroit right hander Schoolboy Rowe won his 15th straight decision as Detroit kept pace on top of the American League. New York trailed by five and a half games after a Browns loss. The article also notes Cleveland’s 12-6 victory over Philadelphia and other league results.
Yesterday results show Cleveland 13 Philadelphia 1 St Louis 8 New York 6 Detroit 3 Boston 4 In the National slate Philadelphia 6 Chicago 1 Brooklyn 8 Pittsburgh 5 Cincinnati 1 New York 4 St Louis 6 Boston 2 Montreal 12 Baltimore 7 Rochester 3 Newark 2 Toronto 2 Syracuse 1 Albany 7 Buffalo 1 Today's schedule features Chicago at Boston St Denis at Philadelphia Detroit at Washington Cleveland at New York Open date.
In homage to Maxim Gorky the Moscow Writers Union creates an annual prize of 10 000 roubles for the season s best play author.
Henry McLemore reports on a seasonal sports writing trend and a traveling attitude toward gambling lingering in the Saratoga scene. The piece describes a New York bound train transformed into a Monte Carlo style den with poker, craps, and card games aboard, featuring roaming gamblers and brisk bets among traveling salesmen and drummers en route to the city.
Announcement today states two Saturday games are postponed due to teams incomplete rosters and conflicting engagements. An exhibition between left and right handers is planned, with a ball throwing and base running contest. Admission is fifteen cents for the afternoon program starting at 2 o clock.
Oscar Rankin of Los Angeles upset Gorilla Jones, the former N B A middleweight title holder, with steady body punching over ten rounds. Jones showed fatigue, scoring only three flurries while Rankin dominated with six clear rounds in Los Angeles last night.
Travelling salesmen push to board as train halts. The group of players, many in shirtsleeves with collars unbuttoned, refuse to move. A porter intervenes twice, warning the train will back out into yards unless they hurry. George responds, urging one last brand push among the team.
Kip Anderson and Washingtonians meet Erie County League champions Union City in a key Thursday night game at League Park. Babe Haenel starts for the locals against Larry Johnson or Mike Popovich for Union City, with Covelesti at second base and Chase at first for the visitors in a full lineup close to the regular roster. The first independent game of the summer promises a sizeable crowd and an intriguing cross-league contest.
In Germantown Pa on August 3, Americas doubles champions George Lott of Chicago and Lester Stoeten of Los Angeles led six seeded teams into the national doubles tennis title quarter finals. They faced the unseeded duo of Dr Carl Fischer of Woodbury Pa and William Lingelback of Philadelphia. Harold Wahue, an instructor at an urban high school, resigned to accept a similar post at Sherburne.
Chicago August 23 Sad Sam Jones at age 42 remains the American League s oldest pitcher and a durable member of the Chicago White Sox staff under manager Timmy Dykes. He has nine wins this season and, with a first place club, might rank among league leaders. Jones has played for six AL clubs and in four World Series, never winning a Series game. He named a hypothetical all star lineup of AL peers including Gehrig Cobb Ruth Speaker Grove Johnson and Hamph shaw among others.
More than 700 golfers across 23 sectors were narrowed to 10 qualifiers for the National Amateur golf championship at Brookline on September 6. Notables include defending champion Lawson Little and British amateur champion Georg Dimlap Jr, with several former champions among those advancing. In Pittsburgh district, George A. Flinn Jr. of Oakmont and Knox M. Young Jr. of Sharpsburg earned medal honors with 1506s in 36 holes, along with Wilson F. Mats, Sid Garson, and J. W. Oliver as other qualifiers.
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