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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1913
Page
14
A sprawling 1910s style recap highlights player form across leagues. Mentions George Moriarity, Hane Wagner, Shin Saligu, Vonnie Mack, Gilly Lathrop, Pat Moran, Hal Chase, Rebel Oakes, and others with teams like the Tigers, Cardin als, Naps, Phillies, Browns, Pirates, and Yankees. Notes rising tempos, speed, and pitching form, plus humorous bits about pirates and fat players, with general league sentiment about pennants and business of baseball.
The piece surveys sports happenings including boxing amateurism, horse racing stars Creusote and Star Winter, yacht clubs, a Philadelphia golf course plan veto, and intercollegiate rowing across Thames and Hedsor. Yale football candidates train at Bull estate. Harvard self supporting sports profits. US Football Association joins FIFA. Arthur Robinson skips Atlantic trip. Westchester Polo Grounds prep for tourney after national polo championships at Narragansett Pier.
Reports circulate about Chris Von der Ahe the late St. Louis Browns owner. The tales recount Kid Gleason paying $50 to own up to a popcorn ball incident and a $200 fine for the prank. Other stories recall threats, a shooting display, and a kidnap scare linked to legal battles with Baldwin. The piece notes his temperance stance and sharp wit during clubhouse lectures.
Stallings keens sending his Braves along at a wonderfully steady clip. Bert Humphies is now a regular member of the winning version of the Que s pitching staff. Klopfier of the New York Americans has been acquired by the Venice coast league club. Brooklyn seeks another good pitcher as Dahlen has scouts out. Zamlock praised as a top Detroit prospect by Hughey Jennings. Tom McGuire and GilK Kavanaugh signed by the Cardinals. Cleveland manager Joe Birmingham says Naps and White Sox are pennant contenders. Al Bridwell, the former Giant, shines for Chicago with clever fielding and hard hitting. A Boston critic fears Cleveland may blow up in the stretch.
A study of National League pitchers shows fear and nerve shape performance. Lefty PL Allen of Brooklyn, once timid when teammates warm up, may become a top twirler if managed properly. stars like Mathewson and Marquard react differently to substitutions, while hitters like Wagner and Cobb press through fear and rely on sharp curves.
Umpire Bill Evans, now partner of the discoverer, praises Russell Ford as having the most exceptional spitball break in baseball history surpassing Chesbro and Ed Walsh. Evans notes Ford had one outstanding year with it and predicts no future pitcher will match his unique break.
Tub Spencer, former big league catcher, is released by Del Howlard, manager of the Friven Seals. McGraw of the Giante is said to have his eye on Pitcher Reig er, who helps Bt. Pass up in the American Association race.
The text presents fragmented lines about a nestling and birds near an old tree. It reads like a stray poem fragment with garbled phrasing and unclear syntax. imagery hints at nesting, departure, and a sigh at the gate.
A stern old captain of industry rejects a self confident applicant who claims flawless success. The applicant insists he will not fail, while the captain cautions no man rises without some fall and declines the position to avoid starting at the employer's expense.
A dialogue wonders about five plain daughters of Ruskum the merchant prince. The youngest nears thirty and remains unmarried. The chatter notes curiosity about his faith in dweding stamps and whether such stamps might be given away.
In a tense exchange Mr Tunpeck and his wife discuss a presidential nomination remark. She questions the idea of their nomination while he hesitates and shifts topic. The odd dialogue underscores a moment of political musings within a domestic setting.
Fragmentary lines note that in India barbers hold high status equaling priests and question the origin of bells or peals, suggesting a reflection on local customs and revered figures among the departed.
Little Harold, spending holidays with Uncle Thomas in the country, confesses he is terribly homesick. His aunt insists he is eighty Barry and recalls a turkey gobbler with a big double chin that makes him think of her, a humorous reflection on homesickness.
The text shows fragmented patriotic chatter about being seen and photographed, with lines claiming approval and a boast about raising flags at a banquet. It includes a quip on drinking and wasting by filing, reflecting a tarnished, muddled social moment without clear events or persons.
A fragmentary dialogue references Emerson on prayer as a disease and swearing as an epidemic. Uncle David asks if a woman ever calls Tan the noblest work of God, highlighting a provocative exchange amid incomplete text.
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