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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1901
Page
8
The record shows Fort Wayne Wheeling Dayton and other teams with listed battery pairs like Gatch Wills Williams Wilhelm Wroegner Lock and Pardee Grafilus Frick Fuller Yerkes Quinn Killen Fox Burns Zalusky Jones Wright Blue across games. The line scores indicate periodic scoring and team abbreviations with final tallies and margin details.
baseball scorecard style listing of teams Pittsburg Brooklyn Philadelphia Chicago Cincinnati and others with battery pairings and game results. includes names like Taylor Kling Lutthoff Bersen Dineen Moran Hughes Farrell Pittinger Kittridge Kitson Hickman Warner and more alongside team abbreviations and run totals.
Rushville defeated Shelbyville 3 to 3 on Monday in Chicago. Sutthoft pitched a good game for the Reds amid a broader shuffle and rumors of a shake up as teams reorganize and seek more games.
Iver Gangon lowered the world ten mile record at New Haven to 22 minutes 41 and 2-5 seconds on Tuesday night. Golf pro Harry Collis of the Country Club and Bernard Nicholls, who has twice defeated Varden, will meet in a match at the club on September 10. The Crescens Abbott Providence match next week has been canceled as terms could not be reached. The Father Mathews boys brigade held an athletic carnival at Brookside Park midweek.
A proposed rule allowing a player to bowl in two leagues would alter the sport significantly if adopted. Marion club and Independent Turners install new alleys while captains seek added players for a larger upcoming season.
San Francisco reports tentative scheduling of the Jeffries Ruhlin boxing match for November fifteenth with discussions pointing to a firm date. Promoters seek a high profile venue and expected crowd drawing power amid growing public interest.
Harry Elkes suffered a punctured tire as Stimson defeated him in Boston setting new distance marks from six to fourteen miles. The pace compared with Walthour’s New York times in a Monday night event, highlighting mile splits and trial times across multiple distances with elapsed figures.
The shooting team named to represent the United States at Sea Girt includes H. M. Bell W. W. Cookson William Farrow H. H. Leszar Joan Malcolm W. B. Martin G. C. Shaw Cc. H. Springsted W. F. Whittemore and N. J. Young.
A Western bookmakers association member arrives in Muncie Indiana to sell pools for Wednesday races. It marks the city’s first pool experience with betting pools introduced locally.
Aug 28. Striking Conkey printing plant workers in Hammond stage a parade and union introduction after confronting owner Mr. Conkey. Girls from the ink factory department lead picket lines, urging former coworkers to join their cause as he bows and steps aside.
Mrs Efe Doty a pretty widow from 602 N Delaware street endured a romance with Frank M Thomas assistant manager of a Hot Springs bathhouse. After gifting a $200 diamond ring to memorialize the affair she traced him across cities to recover the ring and was left distressed and ill. Her husband Taylor Doty died four years ago and she has a nine year old child.
In London at 2 p m heavy trade and unsettled mood over Franco Turkish tensions. American market firms with hardening tone and notable notes include a planned September strike by coal miners at Central Coal and Coke and Western Mining, possibilities of bond issues, and domestic rail and steel activity. London rate cuts eyed as market dips.
A Colon correspondent reports about 2000 Colombian rebels crossing the Venezuelan border. The aim is to topple President Castro, with plans for a parallel invasion in Nicaragua.
In Belleville Illinois Aug 28 a gas explosion trapped twenty miners at Frenchville. The women and children flooded the shaft with water from a reservoir to halt the flames and rescue the trapped workers. Later in Noblesville Indiana an arrested laborer blocks an interurban project as councils threaten to revoke a franchise.
In Toledo Ohio on August 28 David Natio delivers a sharp interview accusing his wife Carrie of squandered money and abuse. He claims 25 years of patience and silence to avoid scandal and says divorce for him means removing her from his finances and life. He notes she dislikes his whisky ties more than when her daughter wed a saloonkeeper.
Rev Samuel G Bettes, Yale Michigan, was set upon by a mob during a temperance lecture in Zanesville Ohio Tuesday night. Police rescued him as mill workers appeared with a rope. Bettes, battered, was jailed after condemning city leadership and the open policy. A second report mentions an escaped mountain lion seen near Brasil in Oscar Stewart’s barn.
Customs collector W A Hoey was rearrested on a second charge and released on four thousand dollars bail. Deputy sheriff James Burnell, a key government witness, was arrested and jailed. Hoey’s examination is scheduled for Thursday amid Chinese cases allegations.
Philadelphia report outlines Charles M Schwab paying 4 032 000 dollars from his billion dollar trust in a transfer described as shaping ownership. The piece notes the money being directed to a mill and references a Morgan connection, with Schwab described as the high earning president of the size and scope trust.
An unreadable OCR fragment mentions phrases like sure pure rimless cure and buy, with no coherent subject or clear entities. The readable text lacks a definite event, person, or organization to anchor a proper news summary.
Report says a group of Ko omo musicians has finally formed a union after significant trouble. The hickory nut reference implies a noteworthy event, while trees are described as heavier with leaves than usual, signaling unusual conditions in Indiana.
A Big Four passenger train from Cincinnati derailed near Union station on Tuesday at 11 p.m. The smoking car and ladies' coach left the track at Meridian street as the train pulled in. The train was stopped quickly and no one was hurt.
Two streetcars collided at Central Ave and Thirtieth St at about 10 30 p m Tuesday. The Broad Ripple car ran at high speed and crashed into the Central Ave car which halted to allow Mr and Mrs DeWar to cross. Motorman Stevens was injured and brake failure cited. No passengers hurt but panic spread among riders amid complaints of reckless Broad Ripple operation.
The funeral for Tommie Hall two year old son of Don K Hall of 2122 Park Ave was held at home on Wednesday at 10 am and the body was taken to Lewisville Indiana for burial. He died Monday night from burns suffered Sunday while playing with matches in the varnish. Neighbor Frank Dudley rescued him and burned his hand in the effort. Dr Mc Shane initially judged the burns nonfatal.
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