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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1909
Page
6
Chicago hosts National League magnates as Carr and Watkins visit to gather insights on upcoming American Association plans. Indianapolis officials hope Sunday games get Senate approval for a summer schedule. The AA leaders observe NL tensions but stay detached for social reasons.
Orland Indiana will install electric lights to modernize the town. Robert N. Sanderson who runs a local mill will oversee the plant installation and bring the town up to date with electric illumination.
Indianapolis selects five delegates to the American Bowling Congress in Pittsburg with five teams—Marions No.1 and No.2 Crescents Columbias and Central Unions—to compete. They back Garry Herrmann for presidency and Chicago as 1910 meeting site, with Louis G. Buddenbaum’s support noted.
Battery A basketball team will face Indianapolis A C five at Curtis Armory on Sixteenth Street and Senate Avenue Tuesday night in a season defining contest. The Senators meet a fast local five in the curtain-raiser with tipoff at 7:30. The Battery A lineup lists Eden Cochran Fatout Goodlet Chase Johnson Reed Hurt McCollough Cowell with Ed Reed and others in the backcourt and frontcourt duties.
Ithaca N Y Feb 15 The Cornell faculty probation of Max Smith bow on last year s varsity eight for deficient university work bars him from the boat for the rest of the year G Cornwall and G Higgins two star baseball men also placed on probation as part of the action
National League President Pulliam arrives in Chicago to preside over the schedule session as talks on umpires and the feud with magnates continue. He criticizes Owens, notes use of double umpires, and says the league will not adjourn soon while a bribery probe committee must report.
Lexington reports the Rochester club manager John Ganzel plans to face Stultz the Central university champion pitcher from Danville as the midwinter game ends with Ganzel confident he will beat him.
The Old Regular column recalls Mickey Ford once knocking out Ray Bronson in a Kokomo bout and notes his later injuries to his jaw after facing a Chicago challenger. Now Ford works as a first class baker and remains a remembered figure in Indiana boxing lore.
The schedule lists boxing matches and athletic events from coast to coast. Billy Griffith faces Jack Morgan in Fort Wayne while Dave Barry meets Sammy Phillips in New Orleans. Other bouts include Abe Attell versus Jem Driscoll in New York and Young Erne against Freddie Welsh in New Orleans, with numerous undercard fights in Philadelphia Boston and Chicago. The Week also notes a New Orleans YMCA Marathon and spring training travels for Giants players.
A series of potential matches is outlined for wrestler Charles Olson in Indiana. Possible bouts include versus Leo Pardello in Indianapolis for blood rivalry, Mahmout the Turk, and engagements against Turk Manageff in Anderson and Dick Roeber in Logansport.
NY Feb 15. Northern clubs depart for southern training camps with manager Stallings ready at Haddock GA and main group to Macon. Giants head to spring start in St Louis, McGraw set for fast pace while Donlin and Taft lines stir talk. Frank Prindle meets Charley Olsen in Evansville Feb 20 for 200 purse at Germania hall, first wrestling event in years.
In New York Abe Attell and Jimmy Johnson argued over the poundage for their bout at the National Athletic Club on the 10th. After wrangling the contract calls for 12 and a half pounds at 6 o'clock with heavy contingencies, but the dispute led to no fight being arranged.
Raymond Aurt known as Bugs, new Giants pitcher from the Reds Cardinals deal, was badly hurt after falling from a street car in Chicago. A surgeon says he cannot train at Marlin Springs and may miss the summer start with the New York team.
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