Arlie Latham’s 60 Foot Ladder Prank Shocks Club Boss
Arlie Latham, famed third baseman, visits Cincinnati with the New York team after a fall from a 60-foot ladder. The tale recalls his clever base stealing and jokes that amused, but frustrated, Chris Van Der Ahe as Comiskey and Van Der Ahe pressed to win the pennant. Latham’s quip about only falling off the first rung triggers a bold chase.
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Arlie, Latham
Browns
Cincinnati
New York
Latham
Hughey Jennings
Arlie Latham
Chris van der Ahe
Chris
Arlie
Tatham
Comiskey
van der Ahe
Himmel
Saddam
Arlie Quick
Doc
Glidden Tour Cars Labeled With Car Names and Numbers
A new ruling for the Glidden tour adds car names and numbers to signs. The change, a boon to spectators and entrants, doubles sign size and highlights makes. The tour keeps a full stay in Minneapolis and Denver, with three days between Minneapolis and Omaha now and later arrivals in Omaha, Denver, and Kansas City.
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Hower
Learch
Minneapolis
Denver
Omaha
Kansas City
Love in China and wedlock’s warming flame tale
Sir tronvert Hart relates a tale from a Chinese scholar about marriage customs. He contrasts Western dating with Chinese arranged marriage, using two kettles of water as a metaphor. The story suggests lasting love grows with wedlock, warming over decades.
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China
Tronvert Hart
Far East
Amateur baseball clubs seek Sunday games around town
The Indianapolis Ramblers seek a game for Sunday June 18 against any out-of-town team, with Coatesville Blues or Beocklyn favored. Various teams including the Nonpareils, Avondale Sluggers and Bannworth & Laskeys request matches with 17 or 18 year olds or semi-pro clubs, listing addresses and contact numbers. The Club Tigers plan two games next Sundays at Brookside No. 2 and Bridgeport, with a meeting at 7:30 and several players asked to attend.
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Indianapolis Ramblers
Teym
Coatesville Blues
Beocklyn
Glenn Maple
College Avenue
Avondale Sluggers
Alva Vanmeter
Delaware Street
Anderson
Ind
Bannworth & Laskeys
Charles Williams
Virginia Avenue
Peru
Whitestown
Greenwood
Coatesville
Freedom
S. Capitol Avenue
Ray Harris
Cooke
Vaughn Cooke
Lafayette Bluffers
Church
William S. McCarty
Tigers
Maroon Athletics
Brookside Diamond No
Bridgeport Nursery
Bridgeport
Freeman
Sheehy
Karabell
Burton
Eggert
Hurley
Isenthal
Cufford
Daily
Selfry
Prospect 1728
Frank
The Coke-Oven Plant Promoters Explain Cheaper Gas
The Perennial Promoters claim their coke oven system makes gas cheaper because manufacturing costs are minimal and coke tar and ammonia sales cover all operating expenses. They promise to reveal the so called magic system behind the residual economics.
D A R President-General Faces Growing Dissent
Mast Mrs Matthew T Scott leads the D A R push creating a supervision committee that has sparked significant member unrest. Lay members complain the committee’s naming fuels a rift and possible revolt within the organization.
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Matthew T. Scott
Scott
Indiana Elks Elect Hedian as Secretary
Evansville resident Harry Loewenthal was elected president of the Indiana Elks Reunion association at the forenoon session. South Bend was chosen for the 1910 meeting, Fort Wayne relinquishing the bid. Other officers: Vice-president Edward Daniels Topton. Secretary T. G. Hedian Indianapolis. Treasurer C. K. McCullough Anderson. Trusten Frenk Baughner Fort Wayne. Esquire Elvin Padgett Washington. Inside Guard D. R. Carlton Miweod.
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Evansville
Ind
Harry Loewenthal
Indiana Elks’ Reunion Association
Terday
South Bend
Fort Wayne
Edward Daniels
Top
T. G. Hedian
Indianapolis
C. K. McCullough
Anderson
Wayne
Esquire
Elvin Padgett
Washington
D. R. Carlton
Miweod
$50 Suit Enticed Berger From Bushes
Heinie Berger of Greenfield Indiana recalls entering pro baseball when Columbus scout Bobby Quinn offered a suit of clothes for switching him from Piqua. He tells how he nearly broke, lost a game due to errors, then won and built confidence, vowing to pitch often and win five in a row.
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Heinie Berger
Greenfield
Ind
Naps
Mondas
Piqua
Bobby Quinn
Columbus
Quinn
Oige Prisoner to the Ge Carried in Automobile
Noblesville man J Oliver Bradley, convicted of murdering his wife in Indianapolis on February 13, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Michigan City prison by Judge Parr after illness delayed the hearing. Bradley, still very ill, was transported by automobile to avoid endangering his life on a train, and he maintained his innocence in court before tears in his farewell.
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Bradley
Noblesville
Indianapolis
Michigan City
Parr
Noblesville Pitcher Struck Out 24 in Exhibition
Noblesville Indiana June 10 In a city baseball game between the Black Diamonds and the North Side club George Bowen the box artist for the latter struck out 24 men and allowed only one hit Young Bowen 17 years old pitched several no hit games last season He has offers to play professional ball but prefers the Hamilton Trust company where his father is president.
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Noblesville
Ind
Black Diamonds
Northside
George Bowen
Bowen
Hamilton Trust Company
Clarke County votes to retain saloons in wet Indiana
Jeffersonville Ind June 10 Clarke county at the polls has declared in favor of the retention of licensed saloons thus joining a tier of Ohio river counties in Indiana which have voted wet. The unofficial majority for the saloon cause is 1004.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Clarke County
Ohio River
Indiana
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Pennsylvania Street
Apollo
Vocalion
Mystic Tie Masonic Lodge
EE Chickering & Son
Wilcox & White
Lodge
J. & C. Fischer
Stodart
C. Fischer
Steinway & Son
Vose & Son
Hazelton Square
Glidden
United States
R. V. Pierce
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Prest
Buffalo, N. Y
Vonluckes
L. Elsiger
Ringgold Street
Carpenter
Independent Browns
Woodruff
Langsdale Avenue
The
Consolidated Gas Company of New York
Consolidated Gas Company
New York Company
Indianapolis Gas Company
England
Carl H. Graf
Indiana Elks
Hedian
Trusten—Frenk Baughner
Fort
Berger
Dutchman
OIGE
Lebanon
J. Oliver
Mer
Clank County
Ayer
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