Toledo Romps In First Game Of Series
Southpaw West kept the Hoosiers winless at Washington Park as Toledo’s Hens defeated Armour’s Carritos 5 to 1. Kellum started strong for the locals but tiring, Chenault relieved. Hopke had a fourth inning triple driving Williams home. Armour’s bats were largely silent.
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Washington Park
Nonce
Carritos
Minneapolis
Armour
Toledo
Somona
Hopke
Williams
Hooke
Smoot
Terre Haute
Chenault
Kellum
West
Abbott
Sid Smith Sold to Philadelphia Americans
Sid Smith, star catcher and leading batter of the 1906 Southern league with Atlanta, has been sold to the Philadelphia Americans. Terms private. Published from Memphis Tennessee on July 26. Special to The Sun.
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Sun
Memphis
Tenn
Sid Smith
Atlanta
Philadelphia Americans
American Association Batteries at Milwaukee and Louisville
In Milwaukee and Louisville matches, teams Brandon Case and Sullivan with Wilson and Roath play for the batteries. At St Paul, RHHSB St Paul faces Minneapolis with Farris Laughlin Kilroy Thomas and Graham in the battery pairings.
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Milwaukee
Kan
City
R Brandon
Case and Sullivan
Wilson and Roath
Louisville
Farris and
Laughlin
Kilroy
Thomas and Graham
Batteries-Overall and Team Pairings across Cities
A fragmented record lists battery teams and pairings with locations Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburg and Philadelphia. Names such as Kling Kahoe Young Boukes Needham Ewing Schlei Mathewson Bresnahan Phillips Gibson Brown Dooin appear amid numeric codes and venue mentions. The OCR reads as a sparse ledger of battery pairings and city references with no clear narrative or dates.
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Chicago
Battle
Kling
Kahoe
Young
Boukes
Needham
Cincinnati
New York
Ewing and Schlei
Mathewson
Bresnahan
Pittsburg
Pittsburge
Philadelphia
Phillips
Gibson
Brown
Dooin
Philadelphia and New York Batteryman Scores Mixed Up
Reported game notes list multiple city matchups with Chicago Cleveland Detroit and Boston as opponents. Batter names Walsh Sullivan Bender Powers White Owen Huat Dy gert Schreck Liebhardt Bemis Clark Doyle Thomas Killian Schmidt Winter Crizger Payne Glaze Shaw Pruitt Glaze Shaw and others appear in battey lineups across first and second games with varied scores and partial totals.
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Philadelphia
RHE
Chicago
Walsh and
Sullivan
Bender
Powers
RNE
White
Owen
Huat
Dygert
Schreck
New York
Cleveland
Liebhardt
Bemis and Clark
Doyle and
Thomas
Detroit
RUE
Boston
Annan
Killian and
Schmidt
Winter and Crizger
Viewer
Payne
Pruitt, Glaze and
Shaw
Washington
St. Louis
Hughes, Gehring, Warner and Herdon
Powell and Spencer
Central League Battery Matchups Across Cities
In Springfield Canton Grand Rapids Dayton Wheeling South Bend batteries are listed with pairings of pitchers or catchers. Matches show teams RHE totals and separate battery pairs such as Merryman Kell y Marquard Texter Dickson Moran Breitenstein Knoll Kennedy McCormick Maddox Philbin Wright Richardson Philbin Terrias Tieman Douthett Marton Martin.
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Springfield
Canton
Merryman and Kelley, Marquard and Texter
Grand Rapids
Evansville
Dickson and Moran, Breitenstein and Knoll
Dayton
Wheeling
Kennedy and McCormick
Maddox and
Philbin
Dayton Rhe
Wright and
Richardson
Robertson and
South Bend
Terre Haute
Terrias and Tieman
Brosius, Douthett and
Marton
Martin and
Tiemanius
Douthett
Martin
Ten Words Free Three Days in The Sun
Classified brief notes a rental listing and help wanted in a period section, indicating short free terms and requested assistance.
Rays From The Baseball Spotlight Homecoming Stirs Hoosiers
The Hoosiers lose grounding as Kellum bangs six hits including a double and Chenault helps turn the tide. Himes relieves Carr after a rough mulligan and Hooke, Smoot, Williams, and Abbott feature in center field and decisive plays. A fireworks throw from Hooke sparked the late rally.
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Indianapolis
Toledo
Fey Barbeau
Eneee Smoot
Clarke
Seeeaee Armbuster
Perring
Williams
Pet Beeew Marke
Atbotte
Wee Teens
Kellum
Chenault
West
Hooke
Fabulous Sums for Recruits in 1908 Baseball Market
Major league clubs bid heavily for minor leaguers as Class A pitchers command up to 4000 dollars and infielders around .300 hit for hefty prices. Muggsy McGraw paid 4500 for Doyle, with Thoney sold to Toronto at a record sum. Columbus remains premier minor league club due to Bryce leadership and Clymer’s management.
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Muggsy
McGraw
Doyle
Springfield
Jack Thoney
Toronto
Majoreagues
Columbus
Bryce
American Association
William J. Clymer
Pitcher Elliott slow to reach form in league return
Elliott, once among the top American Association pitchers, lags in conditioning. McGraw kept him two years hoping for a big league star, but he is not yet in shape for his regular turn. With more work he may improve.
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Kellum
Avoirdupois
Elliott
American Association
McGraw
Claude Elliott
Cromley
Blues
Hoosiers
Gans and Nelson May Meet at Reno Fight
Jim May a Nevada mine operator offers $35,000 for a Nelson versus Gans bout at Reno on Labor Day. Gans and his manager favor the proposal with Joe Gans and Billy Nolan backing it, and a signing is expected within a week. The match would be 1328 pounds ringside with Gans weight undisclosed.
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Nelson
Gans
Goldfield
Rickard
Jim May
Nevada
Jim
Reno
Newon
Billy Nolan
Joe Gans
Sportletts and Notes on Players and Events
Jack O'Brien owns a well hotel in Friea while sowing the Salve as of yore. A western fan invents a pneumatic base cushion that whistles when a runner touches it. Kid Gleason, ex captain of the Quakers, is leaving for Jersey City after receiving a diamond ring from the Phillies. Grimshaw proves valuable to the Pilgrims as a utility man. The New York Americans show intermittent form this year with Nelson favored over Britt for a July 31 bout at Frisca. King Larry leaves for the east with the Naps, hoping to play again soon. Alfred Shrubb enters the Scottish games on September 2 in New York.
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Jersey City
Kid" Gleason
The
Quakers
Phillies
Irish honor St Gaudens statue to honor Parnell
Dublin prepares to erect an Augusta Saint Gaudens statue of Charles Stewart Parnell on O Connell Street. The bronze figure has arrived but installation delays linger due to a complex architectural design. Saint Gaudens, born in Dublin, sees this as his major work outside America.
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Dublin
Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Augustus Saint Gaudens
O'Connell St
Saint Gaudens
Atlantic
Sonoma Girl Wins Merchants and Manufacturers Stake
Sonoma Girl, a Californian trotting mare, won the Merchants and Manufacturers $10,000 stake at Grosse Pointe in Detroit. She set a new world record for green trotting mares and lowered the stake record from 2:42 to 2:03 3/4, defeating Ed Geers' High Ball who led in the first heat.
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the Sun
Detroit
Mich
J. D. Springer
Merchants
Grosse, Pointe Track
Ed Geers
Libertyville
California
Geers
Sonoma
High Ball
Haat Wz
Blenta
Grossé Pointe
Grosse Pointe
Gans Memsic Light Weight Title Bout Nears Aug 16
Final arrangements for the light weight championship between Joe Gans and Gorge Memsic Chicago, known as Jimmy Burns, near completion in Los Angeles. Ben Selig met with McCarey and Memsic to draft articles satisfactory to all. Signatures await Burns manager Tommy Burns arrival and forfeit posting. Selig demanded a 4000 club guarantee. McCarey refused.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Joe Gans
Gorge Memsic
Jimmy Burns
Chicago
Ben Selig
Gons
McCarey
Memsic
Selig
Tommy Burns
San Francisco
Friday's Games Across Leagues and Cities
Friday matchups span the majors with Toledo visiting Indianapolis. Louisville heads to Columbus and Milwaukee plays Kansas City in the National League double bill. St Paul visits Minneapolis. Other games see Boston Chicago Brooklyn St Louis and Philadelphia Pittsburg in the NL. American League features St Louis Washington Chicago Philadelphia Cleveland New York Detroit Boston and more Midwest tilts between Evansville Grand Rapids Terre Haute South Bend Wheeling Dayton Canton Springfield.
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Aye Perenne
Gari
Minneapolis
Scesceerenei
Columbus
ARDY
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Louisville
St. Paul
Indianapolis
Nba
Pet
Beeen Tebe Ree
Chicago
Detroit
Donne Eer
Cleveland
Philadelphia
New York
Pete Eee
St. Louis
Boston
Washington
Wheeling Ee
Ate
Ersten Ates
Springfield
Canton
Evansville
Eee
Sea Aseuneee
Dayton Terre Haute
Bey A
Grand Rapids
South Bend
Cet
Eresenbearees
American Association
Terre Haute
Wheeling
Dayton
Boy Dies After Bicycle Collision With Horse
Elwood Indiana July 26 John Jones ten year old son of Diamond John Jones tinplate official died yesterday from a fractured skull after a bicycle collision with a horse. He was unable to see the horse due to defective eyesight and failed to notice the rigs approach.
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Elwood
Ind
John Jones
Irvington players to represent Indianapolis in Western tennis
Hence Orme and Charles Track of the Irvington Tennis Club will depart Friday night to compete for Indianapolis in the Western tennis event starting Saturday in Chicago.
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Orme and
Charles Track
Irvington
Wil
Indianapolis
Chicago
Photographers Meet Set At Jamestown Exposition
Norfolk Va July 26 The third annual convention of the National Association of Amateur Photographers will be held at the Jamestown exposition July 27 Amateur photographers’ day has been set aside by officials for that date.
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Norfolk
National Association of Amateur Photographers
Jamestown Exposition
Obeyed by Knox in College Mathematics Play
The piece notes Knox attended IMKXnox college where his attire beyond baseball included mathematics. His pitches ranged from a triangle to a hyperbole and West mapped his defeat on paper before executing the mathematical plan.
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Knox
Imkxnox College
West
The Sun Advertises Free Want Columns For Rooms For Rent
The Sun offers free ten word want columns for readers with vacant rooms to rent. Submit a brief ad to be printed in the newspaper's classified section.
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the Sun
Fitzsimmons Faces Debt After Ringside Riches Fade
The veteran boxer Bob Fitzsimmons, once famed for fortunes earned in the ring, now struggles with heavy mortgage on his few possessions. He loaned money to others and to a California millionaire, but debts remain. He hopes a benefit event will clear his name and fund a training farm, enabling him to provide for his family.
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Ing
Bob Edgren
Fitzsimmons
Fitz
Simmons
Bob
New Orleans
Jim Hall
Hall
Washington Sporting Club
Johnson
Carson
Jim Corbett
Fie
Dan Stuart
Maj. M.L
California
Tna Fitzsimmons
Europe
Chicago
John Lt. Sullivan
Terry McGovern
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