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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1905
Page
8
Local notices recount social calls and departures as residents travel to Arden Moscow Davenport and Chicago for visits and events. OH Hawes Camp M W A band concerts and a night excursion on A P O N T are teased with dancing and free entertainment. Sealed bids invite painting work on the court house interior.
Fragmentary entries show scores and teams in a Western League circuit and multiple city mentions. Notable items reference Fort Wayne Terre Haute Sioux City Colorado Springs and percentages with low legibility indicating standings or results.
In the American League games Chicago beat Washington 3 to 2 while Boston defeated St Louis 5 to 3 Detroit won 5 to 4 over New York and Philadelphia topped Cleveland 7 to 4. In the National League Philadelphia won 8 to 5 against Chicago Boston defeated 1 to 0 at Pittsburg St Louis beat Brooklyn 5 to 4 and New York won 7 to 0 against Cincinnati.
Schedule of games includes Washington at Chicago Boston at St. Louis New York at Detroit Philadelphia at Cleveland Chicago at Philadelphia Pittsburg at Boston Cincinnati at New York St Louis at Brooklyn.
In Marshalltown Iowa on May 23 the Marshalltown team lost to Ottumwa by a nine inning score with Ottumwa ahead in the ninth. The line shows uneven innings and battery details for both teams including players Johnson Blanford Schoop Corbett and Lally Montgomery. Oskaloosa defeated 4 to 3 with batteries listed for Lally Montgomery and others.
Haviland of Burlington was hit by a line drive in the seventh and relieved by Krick. Hupp and Wilke homered for Fohe and Burlington, with Haviland, Krick, and Sullivan guiding Burlington to a 36 to 48 victory as early errors and late surges shaped the close game.
Henry Zeidler of West Sixth Street left at noon for Rock Island to spend a day at the Elk's reunion event with plans to return thereafter.
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