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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1923
Page
6
Disjointed clipping reports Ertary named manager Burl Kolit and mentions various sports notes. The text references teams, venues, and upcoming events with scattered names like MilWAUkee, Pugh, and Coreyites, but details are incomplete and many phrases are garbled.
Jack Coulter twenty was held after a raid on Indian towns to identify him as the bank robbery suspect. Preliminary hearing held today with a jail default of eight nine thousand dollars. Officials prepared to extradite if positively identified.
Altoona man Clarence Leonard of Grafton died at a hospital shortly after an altercation with a fellow worker over a girl at a roadside boarding house. Police report the fight occurred Monday morning and the assailant fled. details remain under investigation.
Intermittent showers and a cold blast marred the second day of the All England championships. Top contenders Vin Richards Billy Johnston and Hunter faced delays and bad weather as the schedule shuffled, with Richards slated to play Jean Washer and others in tense early rounds. Fans endured the chill as competitors battled through postponed matches amid damp conditions.
Washington June 26 132 entrants tee off in qualifying round in Chicago after Inter City team title won by Chief Gligoang over St Louis and New York. Forty plus holes loom today as 32 golfers fight for individual title amid fast fairways and erratic bounces.
Tierney of Philadelphia O'Farrell from Chicago Heilmann Detroit Fournier of Brooklyn pace yesterday's home run list. Falk of Chicago competes with Hargrave of Cincinnati as stats from the games filter in today’s box scores.
Fight effort stalled as last $100000 for the Dempsey Gibbons bout remains unraised. Ticket sales and cash return lag, with Gibbons ready to fight despite financial hurdles.
A chaotic montage covers sports results and boxing business. Morton and the Indians clash as Detroit rallies late and the White Sox win. the Pirates top the Cardinals. Connie Mack reshapes Philadelphia to beat Washington 1–0. The Yankees rally in seven in the seventh and five in the ninth, while the Giants beat Philadelphia 10–? The Dempsey Gibbons fight saga grows complex as ticket sales falter, money travels, and legal questions surface about deposits, with Tammy Gibbons insisting on the title over money. Shelby, Mont reacts to the looming bout, ticket funds, and promoter friction amid confiscations and resort crackdowns.
Meadville residents report Charles Wlick a Allegheny College student plans to reach Shelby Montana for the Dempsey Gibbons fight on July 4th. Writing from Williston North Dakota he details a 50 mile daily trek with rides from about 54 motorists over nine days, aiming to be at ringside ready to cheer Gibbons.
In Erie on June 26 a rare 18 hole golf match drew two local magnates amid heavy betting of 25 dollars per hole and dinners for all players. A prominent manufacturer and a major city businessman competed, the latter paying up after losing to the former. Johnny Meador, ex Pirates star, joined Canton for the rest of the season after stints in Oil City and Wisconsin.
In Philadelphia, world light heavyweight champion Mike McTigue was decisively outpointed by challenger Tommy Loughran over eight rounds. Loughran opened a decisive edge, while McTigue flashed bursts but missed repeatedly as the champion endured a taxing defeat.
Yesterday in the National League Boston defeated Brooklyn 7 to 11 Philadelphia beat Cincinnati 10 to 6 Chicago tied Pittsburgh 6 to 6 with St Louis also on the ledger New York and Pittsburgh led the standings as Boston, Philadelphia and New York held strong records. Today’s games include Boston at Brooklyn and Philadelphia at New York with Chicago at Cincinnati.
Baseball results include Philadelphia 3 over Washington 0 and New York 1 over Baltimore 0. Chicago beat Detroit 7 to 1, St Louis defeated Cleveland 9 to 4. Standings show New York leading, followed by Philadelphia and Cleveland, with Detroit, Washington, and St Louis trailing. Today's games list Chicago at Detroit and St Louis at Cleveland among others. Cincinnati and Chicago hit two home runs apiece as the Reds won 0 to 0.
Reported third round of a collegiate tennis tournament shows American players defeating five of seven stars from Oxford and Cambridge. Notable competitors include James Winnie, Park Fischer, Tink Anderton, and William Vale, with past champions and academy standouts advancing toward the title round amid a large field.
Vincent Richards of America defeated Jean Washer of Belgium in straight sets at Wimbledon on June 20. Hilly Johnston of California also won his match, defeating England's Higgy. The piece includes unrelated, garbled text about horned snakes and a crude device.
A sequence of monetary figures appears as isolated values: eight dollars, ten eighty five, twelve twenty five, sixteen fifty, twenty one sixty, ten fifty, fifteen twenty five, sixteen seventy five. The dispersed digits suggest a fragmented price list from the source page.
The fragmentary text notes a New York event or event sequence with references to a person or group Evang Ser and names such as Walker and Hite. It preserves unclear lines about a formal or ceremonial gathering and mentions a date or time segment amid garbled OCR.
Fragmented text references Vin and WL meeting at a site near Lin Gill with mentions of a line, a frit, and a river. It also hints at a weathered civic setting, a militia line, and Armory details, but the context remains unclear and several words are garbled.
The text provided appears to be a garbled or corrupted input with multiple nonstandard phrases and names. No coherent event or entities to summarize into a proper newspaper style headline and card.
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