Battle of Second Basemen in World Series
Frank Menke reviews the rivalry between Eddie Collins of the Athletics and Frank Evers of the Braves as they prepare for a World Series meeting. The piece weighs hitting, fielding, speed, and brains, arguing who deserves the title Keystone King, with emphasis on Collins’s glove work and Evers’s quick, decisive play.
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New York
Johnny Vers
Eddie Collins
Torny
Colins
Waters
Johnr
Collins
Evers
Keystone
Felding
Athletics
Lajoie
Evers Evers
Cub
Braves
Orlings
Connie Mack
Cubs
Merkle
Fandon
Baseball royal contest seals blue ribbon title
The piece touts sacking talent in a blue ribbon baseball event and profiles a veteran batter with a .310 career batting average over nine years and a .948 fielding mark. It notes a twelve year major league span with a .275 batting average and .951 fielding, highlighting Collins as a standout figure.
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Collins
Brooklyn and Boston Fight in NL Scores
National League results show Brooklyn 8 Boston 3 and New York 5 Philadelphia 1 with Brooklyn and New York posting decisive wins.
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Brooklyn
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Unclear OCR Sports Snippet From New York Area Playoff
Fragmentary OCR text references teams and scores including Philadelphia and Cincinnati. Content is garbled with multiple numbers and phrases, making it hard to confirm a single game or outcome. No coherent event or date can be established from the readable parts.
New York Beats Athletics 2 1 In AL Action
New York defeats the Athletics 2 to 1 as Boston and Washington standings show Athletics at 7 3 0 53 games and other clubs list varied records. The fragmentary lines indicate league standings for the American League with team win loss and percentage figures.
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New York
Athletics
Boston
Washington
Eos OE
Ada Boscty
Cpoe A Vay
Ae Oeen
FOSI
Cleveland
Federal League Scores Brief Roundup
Kansas City lost 1 to 5 to Chicago while Baltimore led 11 to 1 and Pittsburgh won 1 to 2 Indianapolis 7 St Louis 4 Buffalo 3 and Brooklyn 1 in a condensed ledger of results from the circuit.
Won Lost Pet Indianapolis opacae 65 570 SRICREOS
Fragmented OCR text shows scattered numbers and team names. The readable items mention Indianapolis and Baltimore teams, with unclear scores and references to Kansas City and Brooklya.
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Sricreos
Clise Casa Ee
Baltimore
Prue Ew Kl
Grenedeke
Brooklya
Eh’svae
Kansas City
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NFL Week Matchups Highlight Eleventh Hour Showdowns
Pittsburgh faces Baltimore while Brooklyn meets Buffalo in a key early season clash. St. Louis travels to Indianapolis and Kansas City visits Chicago as teams test conference strength.
Another Mail Pouch Stolen Sparks Local Outcry
Rockville residents angrily discuss the theft of a second mail pouch from the Baltimore and Ohio station. The pouch was jettisoned from the 3 o'clock train and later recovered beside tracks a mile east. It held mail from Washington Baltimore Philadelphia and other eastern points plus cash checks and money orders.
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Rockville
Baltimore and Ohio
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
West Virginia Methodists Open Sixty-Eighth Conference in Fairmont
The sixty-eighth session of the West Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church opened in Fairmont and will run through Monday. A reception for ministers was hosted by First Methodist Episcopal and Diamond Street Methodist Episcopal churches. Bishop C. W. Smith presides. the first business session was held this morning.
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West Virginia
Y M C A Football versus South Cumberland in practice game
The Y M C A football team and the South Cumberland Collegians schedule a practice game at South End Park this afternoon to evaluate weak points before their regular season opener at Keyser against the University of West Virginia Preparatory School. Powell and Ross impressed in practice as eighteen players competed, with line play improving and coach Snyder promising fair chances for all to earn starting spots for the Keyser game Saturday.
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South Cumberland Collegians
South End Park
University of West Virginia
Keyser
Powell
Ross
Snyder
Miracle Man of the Boston Braves
George Stallings nicknamed Miracle Man led the Boston Braves to clinch the National League pennant and earn a World Series date with the Athletics. He pushed the team from a midseason slump to topple rivals in a dramatic climb and urged single day World Series games before the National Commission.
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George Stallings
Boston Braves
Athletics
Braves
National Commission
Western Maryland plans 13 million for line improvements
W M R Y aims for a 13 million appropriation to upgrade the Cumberland to Hagerstown route. The project focuses on grades to ease heavy tonnage handling while Pittsburgh and Lake Erie eye a large coal export contract delivering 300 cars daily. Officials discussed the plan with directors and visited the line east on a special train.
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Cumberland
Hagerstown
Alleghenies
Blue Ridge
Pennsy
Dickerson Run
Pittsburgh
Lake Erie
Pittsburgh and
Maryland
Casey Jones' Eagles Triumph in Bowling Match
Casey Jones led the Eagles to a 138-pin win over the Moose team on Monday night. The Eagles challenge any five man team in the county to a match game as last night's scores are reported.
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Casey Jones
Eagles
Moose Bowlers
Moose Alleys
Last Day to Register to Vote This Fall
Registration offices close at 8 tonight marking the final chance to be on the books for the November election. Late law requires all eligible voters to register for the fall voting period.
B&O Cancels Sun Day Excursion Baltimore to Cumberland
The B and O Railway cancels the Sunday excursion planned from Baltimore to Cumberland for October 11 to October 18. An excursion to Baltimore and Washington will operate on October 11.
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Cumberland
Washington
Glass Workers Install Union Officers
Local Union No. 137 A. F. G. W. U. of A. elected and installed officers for the coming year led by Ross Ayers as president and Walter Winlow as vice president.
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Ross Ayers
Walte Winlow
Robert Schannecker
Jos. Zihleman
Louis E. Hoffman
William Zantopp
John F. Cartrey
Cumberland Recruiting Station Faces High Fitness Failure
Records at the Cumberland United States Art Recruiting Station show that over seventy five percent of applicants fail to pass the required physical examination. If all applicants were accepted Cumberland and vicinity would furnish a regiment of twelve hundred men each year.
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Cumberland
Cumberland United States
Cumberland and Vicinity
Motorcyclist Fined for Speeding on Maryland Avenue
Raymond Schapfer, driver for Cumberland Brewing Co, and local rider known as Renie Schapfer, was fined $10 by City Magistrate John W. Heck for speeding on Maryland avenue yesterday afternoon. Patrolman Brode filed the complaint.
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Raymond Schapfer
Cumberland Brewing Company
Funeral for Claude Banks Held at Home in Rose Hill
The funeral for Claude Banks who died yesterday at 9 am will be at 3 30 pm tomorrow at his parents home 31 Wallace Street and burial follows at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Claude Banks
Wallace Street
Rose Hill Cemetery
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