Reds Take Final Series Over Cubs 3 to 1
Cincinnati defeats Chicago 3 to 1 to close the series. Red pitching and timely hits secure the win as the Cubs fall short in the finale at the ballpark.
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1907
Page
2
Cincinnati defeats Chicago 3 to 1 to close the series. Red pitching and timely hits secure the win as the Cubs fall short in the finale at the ballpark.
Cincinnati beats Chicago 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1, New York tops Boston 4 1, Pittsburgh defeats St. Louis 5 4 in ten innings, Philadelphia beats Brooklyn 3 1 as weather and pitching shape a day of late spring baseball across the circuit.
Sage Leo I Sage of Fond du Lac, secured by the Brewers last fall, was sold to Oshkosh in the Wisconsin State league. He pitched in fifteen games last season with roughly even results. Milwaukee owner S Havenor planned Chicago talks with Murphy and Comiskey about a first baseman or pitcher for the Brewers, and pending deals were expected to close soon.
Frankie Neil, a top featherweight, seeks to fight Kid Wolgast before a Milwaukee club. Frank Mulkern, Wolgast’s manager, says Neil plans to leave Los Angeles within ten days for an eastern invasion and wants a Wolgast bout. he will match Wolgast with Neil at any club that wants the battle.
President Elliott of the La Crosse Baseball association received the pennant flag this morning. It will be hoisted at League park next Thursday to mark the opening of the season. The flag bears red white and blue and the inscription Champions of the Wisconsin State League 1907.
Mike Schreck and Tony Ross will meet in a twenty round battle in private here tonight in Dayton Ohio.
The Grammar School league will hold games tomorrow on State street grounds with Fifth district facing Third district and Second district meeting Sixth district. Sunday SchoolTeacher quotes George Washington about honesty and remarks on soap recommendations for complexion while noting arbitration may fail in a dispute seen as a cinch.
Messmer of Wisconsin surpassed the interscholastic discus mark with a 150 foot throw in a practice session at Madison. The college record, held by Garrels of Michigan at 140 feet 4 3/8 inches, remains official only for competition. Messmer’s consistent throwing suggests a rising talent in weight events.
Jockey Radke narrowly escaped death when his mount Ben Cole fell in the first race at Jamaica. He walked to the infield after the incident and was taken by ambulance to the paddock where a doctor pronounced him all right aside from a shoulder cut and shaking. Ben Cole, the odds on favorite, led early but Riffle Range and Cuernavaca finished ahead. Campaigner won the Columbus stakes.
A bystander recounts a comic scene where a tramp asks a woman to tell a copper he is not begging and is only her husband prompting a humorous misunderstanding in the street. The exchange highlights social manners and public nudges toward domestic status.
A proverb notes that no shopkeeper becomes so familiar with a patron as to want him to go behind the counter. The wry remark speaks to boundaries between seller and buyer in commerce.
Winnipeg’s red clad players were defeated 7 to 2 by the Champs led by Pink Hawley. Nelson pitched five innings for Winnipeg while Baillies allowed four innings. Bonds, Vogt, and Cahill sparked the Champs offense as Luderaus errors helped the visitors early. Umpire Hunt upheld calls. Winnipeg introduces new pitcher Grench in the second and Terry in the sixth with limited success.
A fragment shows team scores with Columbus and Minneapolis and others. Entries include Columbus 15 Minneapolis 4 Toledo 7 Kansas City 1 Indianapolis 4 St. Paul 2 Louisville 6 Milwaukee 1 and repeats, noting Milwaukee in Indianapolis as part of club standings.
Louisville crowd over 2,000 watches the Colonels beat Doyle's team 6 to 1 marking a third win in four games. Across the day, Columbus tops Minneapolis 15 to 4, Indianapolis edges St. Paul 4 to 2, with wild pitching noted in the Ohio and Minnesota results. In horse racing, Hi Caul Cap wins at Oakland with close finishes, while Lady Savoy narrowly defeats John L. Inglis at Lexington in a dramatic driving finish.
The Pittsburg Dispatch discusses a Virginia judge who killed a neighbor after learning his daughter was ill treated. The piece warns that acting on passion risks undermining orderly justice and highlights how due process protects society and individuals until a court determines guilt or innocence.
A saying notes how people habitually worry a man into his grave and afterward laud him as good. The remark reflects on public mourning and retrospective judgment in small communities.
The poem lauds undismayed writers amid Russia's upheaval since the 1905 Red Sunday. It notes the Eleventh International Navigation Congress to meet in St. Petersburg in May 1908, aiming to boost interest in navigation, naval construction, waterways, and hydrotechnical studies, with scientific excursions planned.
"Our little boy had eczema for five years" writes N A Adams of Henriet ta Pa. Two doctors said hopeless due to lung involvement. After trying more doctors with no benefit, they found Electric Bitters. A bottle brought improvement and multiple bottles cured the boy. Best of all blood medicines and body building tonics guaranteed at O T Erhart's drug store.
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