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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1917
Page
4
A Wheeler Syndicate quiz explains a tricky base running play from a minor league game. The catcher throws to second on a snap pitch forcing a run up between two runners. One runner is caught napping while the other advances, and the umpire rules only one man out. The explanation clarifies the ruling and the sequence.
Veteran harness racing figure Pop Geers at sixty five years old returns to driving after a July spill and brief Cleveland hospital stay. He began in 1890 as Ed Geers and tallies over 2 million in purses with a peak 1902 season of 11370. Also golf star Karl Keffer, twice Canada Open champion, enlisted with Ottawa’s battalion for overseas service, after serving as Royal Ottawa Golf Club pro and Jekyll Island club mentor.
Dr Laure Muller of Brazil proposes that baseball games between northern and southern hemisphere players could build goodwill among republics. The idea follows Bishop Brent’s note that Moros have turned swords into bats and hints at a world league to promote peace through sport.
Mordecai Brown a famed three fingered pitcher for Chicago N L club was given unconditional release by president Charles H Weeghman. Weeghman offered to help Brown obtain a manager position in a minor league club. Brown is thirty eight years old and joined Chicago from St Louis Nationals in 1904.
Walter McCredie received the Oregon Agricultural College coaching post for next spring after previously filling the role and guiding the team to a Northwest conference championship. The club, under his leadership, also contended for the Coast title but fell to California.
A montage of sports wit and trivia covers boxing gloves and referees, golf talk, baseball figures, tennis players, and travel notes. Mentions Jess Willard Freddie Welsh Johnny WIlbane Mathewson and the Dodgers with light humor on leagues and rules.
ISTATE BREE notes the second anniversary of the Second M E Church in Gloucester with a special program led by Rev. William Harker. The piece also lists local events including club formations, road improvement talks, obituaries, and civic notices across Gloucester County.
A New Jersey conference endorses Senator Gaunt’s road bill to replace the road commissioner with a three member directorate under an eight person advisory board. It also backs creating county election audit boards and abolishing inheritance tax collectors for surrogate-led offices, saving salaries. The meeting also discusses state ownership of utilities and franchise tax plans.
Reports include D R W Macdonald overpowering an intruder at Ellis Adding Typewriter Co Newark. Gustave Meier offering 1000 for Augusta Meier's whereabouts. a cocaine case in Paterson. Mayor Stevens of Cape May awaiting recovery after operations. local club elections and church campaigns. tax and city planning notices. oyster shortages in Maurice River Cove. Clayton bakery and grade school incidents. and possible Somerset County Senate vacancy on Gov. Fielder's outlook.
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