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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1925
Page
3
A town call to gather Friday 8:00 PM at the YMCA lobby invites fans and players to discuss starting a Community League. Proposals include ward divisions with sectional teams, reviving sandlot play, and boosting the season with local involvement and memories of past baseball fun.
New York May 20 Babe Ruth returned to practice at Yankee Stadium wearing part of an old uniform. He hit a ball into the bleachers and joked with reporters as he prepared to rejoin games. Ruth had been treated at St Vincent's Hospital after influenza and a fever related abscess operation.
In New York Larry Estridge stopped Charley Picker in 3 rounds. Johnny Breslin beat Izzy Schwartz in 10 rounds. Eddie Bitzell defeated Jack McFarland in 6 rounds. Tom McKenna drew with Jack Brown in 6 rounds. Danny Terris beat Paulie Porter in 4 rounds. In Paris Francois Charles won by technical knockout over Moline in 8 rounds. Debeve quit to Kelly in 5 rounds. In Bellaire Tolliver defeated Joe White in 10 rounds. Sailor Bill Tagner stopped Pedro Lopez in 7 rounds. George Nixon defeated Jack O’Keefe in 6 rounds. Francis Williams lost on foul to Butch Kaninsky in 3 rounds.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of War Weeks, ill for weeks, faced a setback as another bladder colic attack delayed his recovery. He remains bedridden at home, marking a second thrombosis related episode during his illness.
The Giants saw their eight game win streak end as Thom Kaifmann limited the run flow while Griffith and Friberg drove in key hits in an 8 to 2 Cubs win Harper powered the Phillies to an 8 to 4 win over the Cardinals with a homer off Watson Walter Johnson pinch hit and homered in the ninth to lift the Senators past the Indians 4 to 0 Lyons shut down the Athletics and the White Sox won 4 to 3 Miller homered late as the Browns beat the Red Sox 6 to 2 Dazzy Vance earned 1000 dollars as the league s most valuable batter Dodgers beat Morrison for a five run second inning Pirates finished second 9 to 5
Parker Read Jr presents Gerald C Duffy adaptation of Rex Beach short story in Cosmopolitan. Betty Blythe stars as Norma Selzee with Mahlon Hamilton opposite in a dramatic romance set in Europe and South America. Kent hunts to reclaim love after Norma’s entanglements with a crook and a fatal turn.
Troon Scotland May 20 Miss Joyces Wethered British woman golf champion defeated America's Miss Glenna Collett four up and three to play to reach the semifinals. Wethered led after nine holes and clinched the win with Collett missing a short putt on the fifteenth.
Philadelphia May 28 A 200 pound wrestler dropped into Judge Eugene C Bonniwell s lap during Adelphi arena bouts prompting the judge to threaten outlawing wrestling in the state The referee Herman Wolf urged continuation as Crask collapsed An official from the State Boxing Commission William H Rocap declined to comment pending talks with the judge with no immediate action announced
National League scores include Brooklyn 9 at Pittsburgh 6 and Chicago 9 over New York 2. Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 4. American League games show Washington 4 over Cleveland wa, Chicago 4, Philadelphia 5, Detroit 11 over New York 6, St. Louis 8 over Boston 2. Upcoming carded games list Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, Washington at Detroit, New York at Cleveland, Philadelphia at St. Louis.
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