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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1911
Page
24
The piece imagines Rev S Edward Young of Brooklyn pondering how St Paul would react to modern baseball. It satirizes fans, players, and managers with playful questions about base steals sleepers and late innnings.
William F. Kirk writes of a baseball manager who grants a pitcher's plea to play outfield. The eager player struggles, makes three errors, and the team loses the game, leaving the manager remorseful over yielding to devotion.
A racing tout named Toby observes ball players near the Latonia betting ring and asks a star pitcher if baseball is a straight game like horse racing. He aims to back a horse with insider knowledge while seeking certainty about the sport's integrity.
An excerpt presents a performance by Umpire Bill Klem with a mock minstrel framing and a ballad about life as an umpire. The speaker cites Connie Mack and Cornelius Mack, touching on race and criticism whileending with Klem expressing regret and desire to quit umpiring.
Hughey Jennings speaks of slipping legal practice while noting cases including Grogan versus Hogan and McManus versus Miles. He recalls his first case against Cornelius Mack and praises the noble law while missing his yellow law books on a baseball journey.
The New York World reports hardtack once the soldier’s staple from the Revolution era is being replaced by field bread. Unleavened and three inches square, it proved tough on the teeth, and only on forced marches or supply gaps will it be used.
The April 2 Supreme Court decision in Dr Miles Medical v Parks halted price fixing contracts as illegal restraints. Yet manufacturers now use rebates and agency distribution to control pricing and threaten boycotts, with letters urging retailers to maintain list prices and curb cuts, while enforcing supply refusals.
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