Illinois Wresting Faces Ban Threat and Inquiry
Chicago June 7 AP report details a five hour state legislative inquiry into professional wrestling. Promoters wrestlers and managers clash over charges of fakes and crooked dealings. A repeal of the wrestling law is discussed and the heavyweight title bout Lewis versus Malcewicz is canceled. The study resumes next Monday with further testimony and cross examination of prominent figures.
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State Legislative Investigating Committee
Illinois Athletic Commission
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Lewis
Joe Maleewicz
Subs Park
Jim Mullen
Wrestling Trust
Billy Sandow
Kansas City
Malcewicz
Bill Demetral
Demetral
Cleveland
State Committee
Springfield
Rules and questions from Inside of Baseball column
A series of baseball rule queries covers balks on a pitcher's replayed ball, legal home run distance in enclosed grounds, umpire judgments on fair or foul fly balls including fielder position, and whether substitutes must notify the umpire about entering play. Answers clarify balk rulings, hidden ball tricks, and recent rule changes.
Clarifying Baseball Balk Rules and Infield Play
The text outlines balk consequences: one run may score, play suspended, runners advance one base, third base scoring on balk. It notes the runner on first may advance to second and a ball ruled fair or foul depends on ball position. It mentions a substitute replacing a player immediately regardless of umpire notification.
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Tormerts
The Nut Cracker and Other Odd News Snippets
A quirky collage pulls from sports and science with mentions of Babe Ruth homers nearly hitting a spectator, an Orc saw reversal, and a jab at McTigue defending a title. It notes Earth’s 14 movements and a club golfer’s tenions on the tee.
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Babe Ruth
Electing Sabin Carr Yale captain sparks 1928 track buzz
The piece notes Sabin Carr’s potential Yale track team captaincy for 1928 amid broader sports chatter including U S Open trials and heavyweight talk. It compares leadership to Lindbergh’s reception seat and mentions various sports figures and plans while hinting at evolving governance of athletics.
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Sabin Carr
Yale
Lucky Lindbergh
Southern Association Baseball Scores Report
Nashville beat Mobile 6 to 4 in 11 innings while other games were postponed due to rain.
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Southern
Nashville
Mobile
Parking Cars Overnight in City Streets Banned
Chief of Police Gibson announced a crackdown on overnight street parking in the business district. He ordered hotel managers warned to stop guests from leaving cars on the curb overnight and said enforcement would follow warnings.
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Gibson
Horney
High Point
Texas League Scores Highlight Busy Night Across Cities
Shreveport fell to Fort Worth 1 to 13 while Waco blanked Houston 0 and Wichita Falls defeated Dallas 4 to 11. San Antonio and Beaumont fought to a 11 to 13 finish with the game called in the seventh due to darkness.
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Shreveport
Fort Worth
Waco
Houston
Wichita Falls
Dallas
San Antonio
Beaumont
American Association: Indianapolis 3 Minneapolis 2
The Indianapolis team defeated Minneapolis 3 to 2 in a game with no further schedule details provided.
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American Association
Indianapolis
Minneapolis
Pennsylvania game laws to be studied by North Carolina committee
The Enterprise Bureau reports the board of conservation and development will study Pennsylvania game laws. A special committee arrives in Harrisburg to assess the law, with Fred I. Sutton of Kinston serving as chairman and introducer from North Carolina.
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Cranford
Asheboro
J. Q. Gilkey
Marion
Wade H. Phillips
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Department Board
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh
Game Division
Board of Conservation and Development
Harrisburg
Fred I. Sutton
Kinston
Caroline
Market Opens With Mixed Moves In New York Stocks
The June 7 opening shows gains for Chicago and eastern Illinois preferred at 69 percent, a new high, and by products Coke up 1 percent. Delaware and Hudson fall two points, and General Electric slips one point on the first sale.
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Chicago
Illinois
Delaware and
Hudson
General Electric
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