Athletics extend winning streak in Detroit series
The Athletics under Manager Mack win again in Detroit ending a week with eight straight victories. The club, previously in last place, surged to second in the pennant race as they head to Pittsburgh for a Western series.
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St. Lonia
Athletics Triumph Over Detroit 11 to 8 in Big Bat Night
In Detroit 7,000 watched a high scoring game as Philadelphia Athletics overpowered the Tigers 11 to 8. Nance led with a home run and three extra-base hits, Holmes and Cross added key doubles, while Dolan made sharp plays at short. Bernhard limited Detroit after the fourth inning and Fultz sat Sunday. Seybold covered center field with a fine catch.
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Philadelphia Times
Detroit
Mich
Athletics
Bernhard
Owen
Frisk
Nance
Holmes
Cross
Lajoie
Dolan
Lojoie
Fultz
Seybold
Philadelphia
Innt
Fielmes
Powers
Dillon
Frisk—Hayden
Glearon
Truelow
Sheridan
Senators Start with Win in Chicago
Washington built a five run first inning on two bases on balls and four hits. Chicago fought back but could not overturn the early lead. Attendance 11,000. Griffith pitched for Washington and Carrick relieved later to hold Chicago. Final score 7 to 5.
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Senators
Chicago
Oh Balla
Washington
Lee
Piaces
Carrick
Coughlan
Clingman
Milwaukee Takes Game as Reidy Yields Four Singles and One Home Run
Boston beats Milwaukee 10 to 6 as Reidy allows four singles and one home run while Young holds Milwaukee in check after the second inning. Uprising tensions flare when Collings protests an umpire call and Freeman antagonizes Maskell, prompting the game handler to end the argument. Dowd shines for Milwaukee with key hits and Gilbert and Gollies contribute in late innings.
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Wis
Boston
Reidy
Young
Collings
Freeman
Maskell
Beville
Dowd
Gollies
Gilbert
Maliman
OjBtabl
Collins
Tbo
Waukee
Western Association Scores From Louisville Dayton Meet
In a Louisville Dayton contest at 4 Louisville defeated Dayton 3 10 to 1 Columbius 0 AE Pt Wayne t Wayne 6 3 with multiple unclear scores and participants recorded from the Western Association meet.
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Western Association
Louisville
Dayton
Columbius
AE Pt Wayne
Wayne
National League: St Louis top Cincinnati as Harper shines
Cincinnati crowds greet home return but are shut down by Harper of St Louis who hurls a strong game. Hahn struggles as St Louis builds a big edge, while Berkley and Magoon contribute for Cincinnati in a high attendance contest.
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Harper
St. Louis
Hahn
R. H. Ee
H. O.A.E. Dobbs
Coit
Harley
Beckley
McGann
Crawf'd
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Irwin
Wallacean
Magoon
Krager
Bergen
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Potala
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Burkett
Crawford
Buckley
Slace amcGann
Balle
Cunningham
Chicago drops close game despite Leever top pitching
Chicago showed sensational fielding but collapsed to Leever's pitching. A lone hit sequence and late saves kept them from a shutout as Pittsburgh overcame 6 0 deficit to win 8 4, with Leever striking out five over 11 40. Attendance 7,400.
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Chicagos
Leever
Raymer
Wagner
Penn Henley Crew Prepares For International Regattas
The University of Pennsylvania Henley crew enters the final week of U S training before the Henley races. Coach Ward shifts focus to the freshman eight and varsity four as rosters are tightened to form the strongest possible crews for Poughkeepsie and international competition.
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University of Pennsylvania Henley
United States
Atlantic
Ward
Shell
Poughkeepsie
Vennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Josh Ward
Philadelphia
Ellis Ward
Ellis
Reath
Pennsylvania Rowing Committee
Henley
Lakes
Interlaken
Luzerne
Switzerland
University of Dublin
Lake Killarney
Gloucester Regatta Outlook Bright for June 23
The Gloucester Yacht Club reports strong plans for the second annual regatta on the lower Delaware Sunday June 23. Open yacht entries include John Engle Shackamaxon Club and O B Dickinson Chester, with decked boats race entries and twelve new members adopted.
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Philadelphia Times
Gloucester City
Gloucester Yacht Club
Mittee
Delaware
Keystone Club
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J. Kearst
McGinnty
Bessie
Bertie S
Marie
Albert S
John Engle
Shackamaxon Club
O. B. Dickinson
Chester
Gloucester Club
Bowling record falls as Grath leads Central in clash
Edward Grath, star of the Central League cocked hat team, posted a 742 plus 5 in a tournament against the North Ends. Central set a 1 455 total, surpassing the previous 1 444. Grath delivered a string of strikes and spares with a five game total of 372 and a top game of 90.
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Philadelphia Times
ST. Louis
Edward Grath
Grath
Professor Beam's Pupils Perform in College Exhibition
Saturday night at College Settlement 433 Christian street Professor W Ward Beam and a Pythian Athletic Club close member headlined an exhibition with gymnastic feats on parallel bars dumbbell drills jumping and tumbling. Athletes J A Short E Shivas J Donovan J L Smith E J McGrath 8 Watkins W Koch G Hardy T EB Stevenson H F Devlin V Arata entertained the crowd. Shioss and Arata wrestled fifteen minutes without a fall while Short was thrown in 7 minutes 52 seconds by Hardy.
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Fea KE. Shioss
V. Arata
J. A. Short
G. Hardy
Favorite Wins French Derby at Paris in Close Finish
The Prix du Jockey Club for 3-year-olds, run at one and a half miles, attracted a purse of $27,540. Saxon led the field to victory as the favorite drew strong support, with close competition noted among the contenders.
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Paris
Ae Wen
Autograph requests fund appeal to Julia Marlowe and Howells
In the Minneapolis Times a fan's letter to Julia Marlowe prompts a neat 30 cent silver donation to the Actors Fund of America for an autograph, a practice shared by some literary figures. The Harpers issued an autographed edition of Howells Literary Friends and Acquaintance with a penned signature in each volume.
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Minneapolis Times
Fead
Julia Marlowe
Actors’ Fund of America
Miss Marlowe
Thies
Harpers
Mr. Howells
Thas Tha Bien
Eas McEey
New Defender A Great Craft
Bristol, R. L. June 2. All express great satisfaction with the Constitution’s spin test off Bristol with Captain Duncan absent. Nat Herreshoff aboard to inspect improved steel mainmast and rigging. sails tested from Hog Island to Sandy Point, reaching nine to ten miles per hour. The craft showed strong performance, with a sprit topsail and a light spare topmast.
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Philadelphia Times
Bristol
R. L
Constitution
Herreshoff
Duncan
Nat Herreshoff
Rhodes
Bristol Ferry
Hog Island
Sandy Point
New York Yacht Club
Dyers Island
Ogdensburg
Constitution Sails Quietly at Newport Harbor
The cup yacht Constitution, under Captain Rhodes, arrived from Bristol with light winds and was moored for the day. The crew rested while sightseers watched from shore. George Brown of Deer Island was later treated at Newport Hospital, the second crew member to receive attention that week.
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Philadelphia Times
Newport
Cup
Constitution
Rhodes
Bristol
Mount Morris
Mr.Duncan
George Brown
Deer Island
Dunn Wins Bout After Early Altercation in Ohio Ring
In Youngstown this morning Jimmy Dunn of New Castle earned the decision in a two round match with Mike Lavelle of Pittsburg after an early dispute led to a clash and Dunn threw a constable from the ring.
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Constable
Youngstown
Obl
Jimmy Dunn
New Castle
Mike Lavelle
Pittsarm
New
Premier stakes looms as Hawthorne card centerpiece tomorrow
Hawthorne race card centers on the Premier stakes a one mile event for 3 year olds with $1500 in purses. Entries include four American derby hopefuls Captain 8 Garry Herrman Silverdale Operator and Robert Waddell among others.
Hurdle Handicap and Races Card at Eight Meet
In the first race over one and three quarter miles with seven hurdles Monroe Doctrine King Barleycorn and others compete with weights from 150 to 142. The second race five furlongs features Misa Hastings Illuminate and Wild Oats with weights from 110 to 97. Three more races list entrants Gold Spinner Your Grace Blue Girl and Godfrey among others with weights mainly in the 100s, then Tendican one and sixteenth miles and six furlongs events with numerous contenders and end weights from 126 down to 87.
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King Barleycorn
Bob
Roxburgh
Bermuda Hundred
Desperado
Bellamy
Bon Jour
Islington
Cephalalgia
Wandering Minstrel
Misa Hastings
Illuminate
Friar Tabor
James Fitz
Rossignol
Carrier Pigeon
Ethics
Hengist
Satire
Dr. Preston
Cespedes
Isaac Hopper
Belvino
Adden
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Blue Coat
Egotism
Dactyl
Anna Darling
Argonauta
Hanover
Saran Grall
Sedition
Chirrup
Gunfire
Alcedo
Beau Gallant
First Whip
Dr. Barlow
Gold Fox
Wallabout
Sailor King
Godfrey
Dr. Riddle
Candling
Tinge
His Royal Highness
Glenneslie
Bo Knight
Bounteous
Manchuria
Oliver Mee
Yorkshire Boy
Drogheda
Ante Up
Connie Kid
Thoroughbred racing card with six races listed
First race six furlongs purse Roberts Lee Durrell Nancy Dobyns Ida Penzance Concha Belle Nutter 05 Socapa Nelse Morris Hayseed Baronet Hazelmoor Guerdon Colonel Strathy Stamp Talvert. Second race five furlongs selling Icon Frances Rees Lilly Pantland 98 Erema Kid Hampton Northumbria 101 Gwynne Allaire Dr Tarr Profit 106 Faith Ward Roltaire Times Star 108 Prince Esher 112 Billy Mason 114 Rico 117. Third race four and one half furlongs selling Dr Lovejoy 101 Mary Greenway 108 Hattie Davis Dr Worth 104 Tom Crabb Pau Bart Vanuata 105 Ben Hul lum Bua Embry Ingo 100. Fourth race seven furlongs selling Patchwork Rosebird Crescent Queen 5 Brown Wall Polly Bixby Nekarnis B George 100 Marion Lynch Sandown Leet ka 108 Sylvan Dell 105 Strathbroeck 108 Flep Forbush 111. Fifth race six furlongs selling Relucent Alice Scorpion Arrogant 08 Irish Boy Antithesis Old Phil 95 Zenaide 98 Juniper Exmoor 100 Stae Fairy Day 107 Ruth Parks 108 Pinechip Amoroso Young Henry WO. Sixth race one mile selling Baffled Sauceboat Zellmore 102 Pretty Mc Cleary Al Caskey Hermes Jacoma 104 dim Flood Quaver The Slages 107 Napoleon Bonaparte 112 Rowdy G Lillian offman 1
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Durrell
Nancy Dobyns
Ida Penzance
Concha
Belle Nutter
Socapa
Nelse Morris
Hayseed
Baronet
Clifford, Jr
Hazelmoor
Guerdon
Colonel Strathy
Stamp
Talvert
Icon
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Lilly Pantland
Erema
Kid Hampton
Northumbria
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Allaire
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Roltaire
Times Star
Prince Esher
Billy Mason
Rico
Dr. Lovejoy
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Hattie Davis
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Tom Crabb
Pau Bart
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Ben Hullum
Arrogant
Irish Boy
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Zenaide
Juniper
Exmoor
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Fairy Day
Ruth Parks
Pinechip
Amoroso
Young Henry
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Zellmore
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McCleary
al Caskey
Hermes
Jacoma
Dim Flood
Quaver
the Slages
Napoleon Bonaparte
Rowdy G. Lillian Offman
First Race and Mixed Card of Selling Races
A blurred racing page lists multiple selling and purse events. Entries include horses named Julietta B Coral Thisbe Engano Klondike Queen Revoke La Princessa Chickamauga Brigand Queen and Uncle Lewis in a mile race and many other horses across five more races with times and weights. The column shows connections such as John C Vaupel Adolf Diaz Huntress and Glenmore among others.
Not Tender Feet These From New York Sun
Colonel Munson recalls tough feet in a Florida voyage narrative. He describes a conch handler scratching a match on his bare heel, oysters with sharp edges, and a sheep's head roast on Sanibel Island. The piece weaves for humor with vivid shore life and some character names.
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St. Petersburg
Fla
Matanzas Pass
Garry van Horne
Jersey City
Sanibel Island
Charles B. Hogg
Bay
N. J
Darky
Disjointed Quote from Washington Star Reader
A fragmentary quote from a Washington Star piece shows a discontented man complaining about portraits of prominent figures on money. The garbled text mocks the nervous habit of keeping them in the public eye and hints at currency familiarity.
Pocket Picked On Suburban Ride
A reader reports a pocket theft on a Detroit Journal suburb line trip, an excited exchange with a conductor confirming the loss after the rider claims he started with a lawn mower in hand and ended with a stolen item.
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Detroit Journal
Local Horsemen in Forge for Big Belmont Meet
A crowd of light harness enthusiasts enjoyed ideal weather at Belmont track as trainers and drivers prepared horses for the road and track. Notables including Steve Clark Frank Jackson and Is Kaufmann oversaw multiple horses while the Road Drivers Association readies a Wednesday Belmont race meet with strong team rivals Bower Ottinger and Jacksonian.
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Clark
W. Disston
Harry
Othello
Thomas Grady
Laura Spur
Thomas Simall
Gertrude
Chariie Myers
Sweet Bell
Nick Shaffer
George Gale
Stete Clark
John Strathmore
Oudray
Frank Jackson
Narberth
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George W. Hill
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Bower
John Barton
Greglan Maiden
Arthur Huey
Tond
Ed Pyle
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Joshua Evans
Attilla
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Dunton Wilkes
Dam Almont Belle
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Frank Bower
King Harry
John I’. Stewart
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D. B. S. Chew
J. G. Donohue
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Jim
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James A. Marshall
Thomas Small
David Dallas
W. H. H. Achuff
John Hill
Elwood Smith
George Cook
H. H. Weinberg
W. Sellers
M. W. Hoagland
R. H. Stuart
W. Stuart
Thomas Young
Frank Cavan
Elwanger
Theodore Kraan
Channing Eastburn
M. W. Sullivan
Women as bootblacks in Brooklyn shoe parlor venture
Dot Parkhurst, a Brooklyn woman and former amateur actress, owns the Coleman shoe shining parlor at 42 West Twenty-second Street Manhattan. She launched the business to avoid public embarrassment of women cleaning shoes on streets, aiming to prove women can enter trades traditionally held by men.
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Darky
Sunny Italy
Brooklyn
Coleman Shoe Shining
West Twenty-second Street
Manhattan
Dot
Parkhurst
Miss Parkhurst
J. Sloat
Woman says she aims for legitimate money making in business
An interview with a woman entrepreneur describes her aim to earn money honestly through her operations. She notes female patrons, frequent telephone requests for her services, and a desire to hire neat girls as bootblacks if possible. She believes women can run business as competently as men.
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May Change Football Rules At Yale Pennsylvania Face Scrimmage Change
Pennsylvania football players react to a proposed rule change that could abolish guards back with its variations. The amendments would require six men on the line instead of five and affect the Woodruff system. Coach Woodruff doubts alarm but committee members including John C. Bell and Walter Camp may oppose. Other proposals include field goal points dropping to three and a ten yard loss penalty for holding with ball retention. The committee will meet in about two weeks to decide.
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University of Pennsylvania
Yale
Football Rules Committee
Woodruff
Pennsylvania
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Walter Camp
Hunting Wild Hogs From the Baltimore Sun
Local cattlemen Bernard Teacon Cannon and Buck Allison recount a perilous hunt on Hollands Point marshes in Anne Arundel county. Their party faced a mob of ferocious wild boars that attacked their dogs and forced them to climb a tree. As night fell the boars pursued them to the water where several boats were destroyed and the swine drowned, leaving the men to survive the ordeal.
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Virginia
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Holland Point
Mud in City Reservoirs Echoes of Old St Louis Tale
An old St Louis resident recalls a past crisis when eight feet of clay settled in a city reservoir. The story links saffron colored water, a high Compton Hill site, and an abandoned clay bank in Kerry Patch that later cracked as a contractor leveled the old reservoir for a new building.
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Mound City
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Kerry Patch
Unclear Scene Reads: Life and Indifference Quote
Fragmentary OCR yields a stray dialogue about care and desire for equality. No identifiable people, places, or organizations are clearly present in readable text.
Oarsmen Rest Ahead of National Regatta Season
Local rowing circles paused for rest before the national championships on July 19 and 20. The Passaic regatta drew attention to weather, course fairness, and uneven tides as crews from Schuylkill Navy and West Philadelphia faced travel and practice gaps. Vesper and Pennsylvania Barge Club regattas set for June 6 with multiple heats and prizes, while several clubs prepare boats and crews for upcoming events.
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East River
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Wagman
Quaker City
Maltas
Alaska Strike Tale Moves Nome Prospectors and Natives
A reporter recalls an Alaska oil strike tale from Nome. A barkentine party meets Esquimaux at river mouth water station. A frightened ducking noise sends natives fleeing, then swarm the whale blubber seesawing along the shore.
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