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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1899
Page
8
Manager Nast and his squad arrived in Indianapolis to face the challenge of bonding before the season. Nash defends the squad’s progress, saying little team play is evident yet and two weeks remain to sharpen skills. A hot night looms as Buffalo aims to prove its value in the opener.
Partial OCR shows a score like 210016000-10 160 Cleveland and a listed 114 Batteries Breitenstein Dammann and Peitz Sudhoff and Sugden. Details unclear but indicates a sports score or roster fragment from Cleveland with several player surnames.
Wheeler's wildness and timely hitting propelled Boston to a first inning lead. Boston 9 Philadelphia 7 after a seven run burst, with Willis and Clarke batting for Boston and Wheeler and Douglass for Philadelphia.
New York April 27 Kennedy hurled brilliantly and his battering helped Brooklyn win over Baltimore. Final score Brooklyn nine runs Baltimore three with Kennedy and Farrell on the mound for Brooklyn and Nops and Robinson for Baltimore.
College games saw Holy Cross over Yale 7 6 Lehigh beat Princeton 5 4 Dartmouth won 7 5 Harvard defeated Chicago and Wisconsin 2 Jack Glasscock’s Notre Dame team won 12 6 in a Wednesday game Syndicate ball and crowd interest rise with St Louis Brooklyn matches Regular Cincinnati pitchers Phillips Hawley Taylor Breitenstein named Nash to start with Buffalo Nash 15 years pro Harden ing of Hugh Jennings noted Colones player George Decker discusses facing Clark Griffith Catholic fifth graders beat sixth grade Central school 14 9 Casey the Catholic pitcher excelled
Tom O'Rourke says he has inside information that the Fitzsimmons Jeffries bout will not occur. Several boxing notes follow: Billy Murphy loses on points to Zia Moore in Mansfield while Jeffries seeks a chance to fight Tom Sharkey. Stockings Conroy defeats Doc Payne in Troy. Jack Moffat wins a 29 round decision over Frank Purcell in St Louis praised as fiercest fight there. Joe Hopkins breaks his hand in a bout with Oscar Gardner and is sidelined. Peter Maher and Gus Ruhlin set for May 2 in New York. Eddie Bald to ride for a leading bicycle maker next season.
The Manhattan five-men team meets the Travelers five-men at Oneida alleys on Friday night in a fast, well matched game. Oneida alleys have been remodeled and are among the quickest in the city. Manhattan plans a trip to Brazil, Indiana next week for a five-man pick team game. The Columbia club stays sharp after the league season, recently defeating the Traveling men in three straight.
J Pierpont Morgan gives 1 million dollars to the Lying-In Hospital for a new world class facility. An endowment of 100000 dollars funds a politics chair at Princeton University with donor name withheld. A 50000 dollar gift to United States sailors and marines funds shore homes. donor requires anonymity and a further 100000 dollars from others.
Andrew Wachter of Grand Rapids Michigan married Minnie Friedler on Wednesday night. The church ceremony was delayed half an hour while friends signed bail bonds in a breach of promise suit by Ida M. Gucken for 10000 dollars. Benjamin Douglass of Santa Barbara and wife are defendants in another breach of promise suit by laborer D Nell for 20000 dollars. Douglass, eighty, previously married in Chicago in 1897.
Mrs May Cook, a cornetist at the Cook opera house, opened a tiny candy box backstage to find a copperhead snake about 18 inches long. Police investigate the anonymous note and the origin of the venomous gift, while a stage hand disposed of the reptile.
George E. Sterry Jr of Weaver and Sterry received a small live asp in a mail box. The snake struck his hand as he opened the package and expert Dr Hoyt confirmed the venomous snake. Sterry will try to identify and punish the sender.
In Middlesboro Kentucky on April, the body of Virginia Brooks a wealthy widow from Rose Hill Virginia was found with a bullet wound near her home. Indications point to an attempt to burn the body to hide the crime. Nearby lay the dead body of a man named Harker. Evidence suggests he was murdered as well. The case remains unsolved and enveloped in mystery.
River on fire after a gas line crossing the Ohio River ruptured and was ignited by unknown persons. Flames rose high above the water as emergency crews responded in Parkerburg West Virginia.
Advert shows Chas. T. Whitsett at 531 N Meridian St offering funeral services. Fragment mentions women out of work and a sun newspaper liner about “pop jar” and “doubt bout this” unclear in this OCR fragment.
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