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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1919
Page
6
Philadelphia won the first game 5 to 4 after Strunk and an intentional walk set up infielding in the thirteenth. Chicago took the second game 3 to 0. In the Boston Cleveland game, Cleveland won 5 to 4 with the decisive ninth inning walk and single sequence.
New York won the series finale 6 to 1 over St Louis. Jacobson went 3 singles and a double in four at bats, extending his hitting streak to fourteen games with 32 hits in 57 at bats. Baker hit his tenth homer of the season. Final: St Louis 000 000 100. New York 011 000 13. Batteries Gallia Severeid Moo gridge Ruel.
LaHarpe Ill Aug 9 results from Thursdays Great Western meet show in the 2 15 trot Timothy Hall wins Zelma Strong second Emma C. third Roxie D fourth with best time 2 15 0. Princess Baby and Miss Mora started. In the 2 11 pace Aquilla Dillon wins Dr Gano Gray Hal Wall Conor fourth best 2 11 4 Inez Marie White foot and J V M Manager started. The 2 14 trot Jaustfast wins Leura second Alcola third best 2 12 1 4 Bellini Worthy Ann Phelph and Prince McKinney started. The 3 year old pace Our Todd wins The Northern Lot second Miss Pansy third Everett True fourth Henry Ford started. Gield is found in Sumatra Celebes and Puteh Borreo in beach deposits.
Cincinnati won the first game of the series with Philadelphia scoring four runs in the first inning on three hits and two walks off Packard. Chicago defeated New York 3 0 as Nehf shut out the visitors and Zimmerman was honored after his marriage. Pirates beat Brooklyn 3 0 behind Cooper’s one hit to preserve a shutout.
NEW HAVEN Conn Aug 8 The New York New Haven Hartford railroad announces the discontinuance of 102 passenger trains due to a shopmen and mechanics strike. All dining and parlor car service is dropped and the current timetable is suspended.
Veto blocks provisions for teaching German at the University of Texas. Governor W. Pobby opposes the educational appropriation bill stating the move is not in line with purer Americanism.
Joseph Brady of Keokuk arrived in Quincy to arrange a tennis match with a crack local team. The trip’s main aim is to explore establishing a transmission house to receive power from the Keokuk dam. Ten Quincyans are set to play with Brady’s crew, led by players including Homer Swope Jr and James Dayton, with the match planned for August 16.
Madge Kennedy stars in Jesse Lynch Williams novel adaptation Through the Wrong Door showing at the Orpheum Theater starting Monday. A mistaken arrival leads to a daring dinner, mistaken wealth and romance amid a storm and a showdown with a Western mining magnate.
The notice lists several film and theater attractions including Ruth Roland in The Tiger's Trail at Quincy Theater with Pete Morrison in a comedy, Belasco Theater hosting Tom Mix in The Coming of the Law, Catherine Calvert in Out of Night, Al Jennings in Fate's Frame, Gale Henry in The Slavey, Kinogram at Savoy Theater, Harry Carey in Outcasty of Poker Flat, William Faversham in The Silver King, Ben Turpin in Cupids Day Off, Ethel Clayton in Womens Weapons at Princess Theater, Fatty Arbuckle in Fatty Gets into Trouble, and a vaudeville reel, with Rex Beach's The Brand and Key Laurell with Russell Simpson listed among features.
New York on August 8 reports sale of Pullman tickets to points on the New Haven railroad system was halted at midnight. Union Ticket offices of the railroad administration cited ignorance of the order’s purpose as the reason, with no clear source for details.
Thom W. Murphy of Poughkeepsie captured the Leader 2:08 pace with Direct C. Burnett and then won the special match race with Ante Guy over Walter Cox's trotter Lu Princeton, setting two season records at North Randall. Ante Guy tied a season trotting mark in the second heat while finishing strong, with four favorites winning across divisions including Nedda, Grace Direct, Direct C. Burnett, and Harvest Lad.
The Y M C A nine defeated Electric Wheel 6 to 2 on the athletic field Friday evening. The game lasted five innings with Electric Wheel scoring in the second and third and the Y M C A adding six runs. Battery work by Otto and Dinkeller for Electric Wheel and Rogers and Liane for the Y M C A led the action, as Groetting Sanders Ellermeijer Weisenburger Lane McClough McIntire Rogers Sibroge manned the Y M C A lineup and Otte Dinkeller Rineberg Riley Wisman VanderHaar Kimfree Freese Willer the Electric Wheel lineup.
New York Aug 8 Resolutions opposing the Chamberlain Kahn and Baker military service measures before Congress were adopted by the National Guard Association of the United States. A committee was to draft a bill to implement a May resolution calling for a national guard corps and a proper U S military policy.
NEW YORK August. The government recently sold confiscated whiskey in St. Louis to collect federal taxes. Wholesale liquor dealers nationwide ask Internal Revenue Collector Daniel J. Roper for permission to use the same method to raise funds to pay their taxes, per a statement from the Association Opposed to National Prohibition.
Burlington Iowa August 9 Twenty five molders employed at the Murray Ironworks struck for higher wages on Friday.
St Louis speaker Charles E Williams criticizes profiteering in the shoe trade and blames government laxity for leather shortages. He cites calfskin price jumps, labor cost increases to 54 58 cents per pair, and England's embargo style licensing that kept leather from entering the U S market. He urges higher wages for labor and warned against exports that drain domestic supply.
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