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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1896
Page
3
The piece questions if football or similar sports could supplant baseball in public affection. It notes foreign writers favor their sports and argues baseball stands unique among global sports. It contrasts baseball with cricket, suggesting cricket’s tedious two or three day format limits its appeal to those with ample leisure.
The piece argues that sustained outdoor sport risks monotony, favoring baseball over football and cycling for spectator engagement. It notes football is a cold weather game, baseball’s changing play offers excitement, and racing appeals to gambling interests. It reflects Boston Globe sentiment on sport variety and spectator appetite.
San Antonio Texas December 2 1836 greeting to the People of Texas invites attendance at the Storming of the Alamo on the 11th and 12th with city employes and traveling salesmen offering courtesies and urging visitors to make the store the headquarters THOS GOGGAN BROS piano and organ dealers corner Trouston and Navy Yard.
Talk of a bicycle track and clubhouse near the Coney Island path. Fred Titus seeks reinstatement after suspension from the Ty A W. New England railroads end baggage release for shipping bicycles. T A W membership nears 250000. Jimmy Michael plans to move to Wales for his wife. Rambler price cut from 100 to 80 dollars for 1807. French pros Mordier and Saild suspended from track racing. Triplet records set in Tennessee and Denver events. Intercollegiate cycling plans for next spring. White of Wonoahy comments on Sandwich Islands roads and American bicycle prospects. National Cycle Exhibition expected to surpass prior shows at Grand Central Palace, Feb 6–13, 1897.
In Nassau Street a thirteen passenger lift dropped nine stories in the American Practice Society building. Despite many injuries to women, no fatalities occurred. The event was chronicled as a column-long World Picture, prompting editorials denouncing up-to-date journalism as nonsense and urging readers to question such sensational content.
The San Antonio Baseball Association forms a committee to raise stock for a Texas League entry next season. Most stock is sold and buyers are expected to come from local interest. The group aims to avoid delays by promptly handling sales while preparing players. Encouraging signals come from other Texas cities and the Southern Ice Company remains a potential supplier.
Southern cities reveal growing support for sound money with McKinley gains over Harrison and Bryan in 1896. Richmond Louisville and Nashville area results show shifts, while Atlanta and Charleston reflect changing sentiment and Palmer votes. New Orleans indicates stronger Bryan impact against Cleveland, signaling Bryanism as a Democratic weakness in the South.
A fragment describes a laborer using scorpions to treat wounds by tincture, mixing crushed scorpion with fat and raw spirit. In serious cases he applies the solution in a bottle from a cabin, occasionally taking it internally. A contrasting view notes annual Italian scorpions vendors visiting tans.
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