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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1919
Page
8
Athletes from the Commercial club clashed with the Diamond Celebrities of the Elks in an annual contest at Welch Field Friday afternoon. The Elks won the game 16 to 7 in a decisive showing by their nine players and lineups.
A rough baseball game between the Elks and Commercalites ends with Elks winning by five runs as Commercalites mishaps and erratic play mark the contest. Key hits from Percy White, Richardson, Red Hayworth and Dave White highlight KS scoring while Dobbs and D White pitch. Box score disputed by players but labeled approximate by the sporting department.
The article recounts Oct 1915 tensions between German agent Laucken and American diplomat De Leval over the execution of Miss Cavell. Laucken accuses De Leval of obstruction, demands his removal, and vows future confrontation as Laucken departs for London.
In Baltimore on August 9, Michael Crowdes a 34 year old cook on the Greek steamer Athanasios is under arrest for allegedly stealing $1000 in Erie Pennsylvania. Detectives found $660 wrapped around his leg in a package. He was arrested on information from Erie police and boarded the steamer in Boston three days earlier. He is held pending Erie detective arrival.
Local boy June Wayman jailed for murder did not escape when seven other prisoners pried a door. He chose to stay in his cell saying he wants his day in court and to have the trial over instead of dodging officers.
Savannah Georgia August 9 Katharine Jungsteller aged three credits her life to a window sash that fell and held her suspended from a third story window as she tumbled through a screen. Her cries drew help and a rescue followed keeping her body from fully leaving the window.
A Pennsylvania freight train collided with a butter and egg motor truck in Winamac Indiana. The crash produced a messy scene with butter and eggs scattered across the tracks and surrounding area. Local responders secured the wreckage and investigated the cause.
National scores list Pittsburgh 3 Brooklyn 4 Cincinnati 4 Philadelphia 2 Chicago 3 New York 0 St Louis 4 Boston 9 Boston 4 Cleveland 5 Philadelphia 5 2 Chicago 4 6 New York 6 BB Louis 1 Nashville IT Atlanta 3 Chattanooga 6 Birmingham Mobile Memphis wet grounds New Orleans Little Rock rain Charlotte 2 Charleston 1 Spartanburg 5 Augusta 4 Columbia Greenville rain Richmond 1 Norfolk 6 Petersburg 3 Newport News Portsmouth 2 Suffolk 6
A compact round up lists team matchups and scores across cities including Milwaukee versus Columbus 4 1 and Reading 4 Buffalo 9 7. Other pairings include Newark Rochester Jersey City 8 4 Binghamton Baltimore 8 8 Toronto 5 and more tiny results.
An announcement from Wesley Memorial Church states there will be no August meeting of the Daisy Davies Missionary Society this year.
Racing at Saratoga begins the summer meeting of the Saratoga Racing Association at Saratoga, N Y. Trotting closes the Grand Circuit at North Randall, Ohio. Aquatics start a two day Chicago athletic carnival. Auto racing at Sheepshead Bay, N Y. Polo opens at Newport R I. North western fly and bait casting championships in Portland Oregon. Heads of the Lakes championship in Duluth Minnesota. Southern Pennsylvania championship at Bedford Springs.
Hugh Rockwell, a young Connecticut aviator, crash landed his monoplane at Plainville after a broken cylinder rod. He described the hive encounter as worse than No Man's Land, with bees swarming and stinging him during the emergency.
Fragmentary line notes that girls with pretty ankles incur the least mud on their skirts, reflecting a humorous or observational snippet from a Froth publication.
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