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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1904
Page
8
In London on a September day discussions circle around Dr. W. G. Grace praised as the father of the game. Even as age advances he often appears, prompting advocates to raise their bats in acknowledgment wherever his name is mentioned.
In Gainesville Texas on Monday evening lightning struck near Padua or Ma dellta, killing three young boys who were riding two horses. Two other boys were seriously injured as both animals perished. The incident occurred during a rural gathering with the four youths on horseback.
A disjointed early 20th century sports and crime flavored item notes a pattern of young girls lured by drugs. Quoted lines mix military and political banter with chaotic game and city standings, referencing Milwaukee and Minneapolis baseball results and obscure league notes. The prose jumbles sports scores with stray names, creating a snapshot of chaotic reportage from a period newspaper page.
A collage of sports notes reports Harry Way quitting polo for good and New Haven winning the Connecticut league pennant. It mentions Daly possibly joining Indianapolis polo, McKinney Colts wreaking havoc with purses, and Highland results with favorites all losing. It also covers wrestling hopes against Jeffries, a high school union forming the Big Four, Chicago’s 2 1 defeat of Cincinnati, and Walter Steffens being barred from Wisconsin. Further items include Ralph Rose and Fitz discussions, Morley coaching at Columbia, and retirement notices from rower Fingland and Yale coach Hinkey. Police report a Missouri case of a drugged girl, Bessie Lane, wandering in St Louis describing a minister’s daughter from Chicago, with an unknown man connected to a dose of narcotics.
Harry Batchelder once star of Yale football pleaded guilty to a gambling charge in Reading, Pa., and received six months in jail and a $10 fine. His wife faced a separate charge of embezzling $2,100 from Berg Bros. She was cashier in the same house where they courted. Batchelder confessed to allowing card play for money and cigars in a rear room.
New Orleans dispatch says since January murders have risen in Mississippi with Gov Vardeman saying he has been terrorized by the spike in crime and will take radical action to suppress it. Judges blame juries for not convicting murderers and note labor shortages among farmers hinder prosecutions of negro criminals.
Veterans from southern mountains attend the forty third annual reunion of the Army of the Cumberland at the Claypool hotel in Indianapolis. Generals Wilder Blackmar Grosvenor Blakely and others are slated to speak after the opening session Tuesday morning.
Ten A. D. T. messenger boys form an informal Roosevelt club and gain attention for their views. Joe Blake explains the boys wear many Parker buttons upside down to show Roosevelt ahead, with Roosevelt pictured in front while Parker is reversed.
Indianapolis hunters prep for deer season with gear and plans. The Maine season opens October 1 and the moon canon commences October. Several have already left for Idaho and western Montana for the hunt.
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