Haubold's team sweeps Mays in Turner league matches
Jimi Haubold's squad dominates Mays in both games, posting a new team high series score of 323 pins. Mays struggles early, rallies in game two but cannot overcome Haubold's big fourth and fifth frames, losing by 9 pins. Gutzeif Koch and Mays star for their sides. Haubold crew includes Zuercher Karney Kuehn and Fritze.
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Haubold
Mays
Gutzeif
Mays and
Koch
Zuercher
Karney
Kuehn
Fritze
Grand Fort Worth Rally Against Statewide Prohibition
Citizens of Texas Opposed to Statewide Prohibition plan a major rally in Fort Worth on Monday June 5. Preparations expect up to 100000 visitors with prominent Texas figures delivering addresses. Special railway rates apply from distant points half fare plus 75 cents to Fort Worth and return.
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Texas
Fort Worth
New Orleans Wins Opening Southern League Game
New Orleans defeated Chattanooga 6 to 5 in the first series game. Batteries were Carmichael and Lafitte for Chattanooga Hess and Nagle for New Orleans. The action took place in New Orleans, with early exchanges and a late comeback shaping the final score.
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New Orleans
Chattanooga
R. H. E. Chattanooga
Carmichael
Lafitte
Hess and
Nagle
Leaders surprised as Mobile tops 8 2 in opener
MOBHZE Alabama May 19 The leaders were stunned by Mobile in the opening game, Mobile winning 8 to 2. The score shows Mobile 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 1 and Memphis 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 with batteries credited to Dickson and Donahue for Memphis and Campbell and Rowan for Mobile.
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Mobhze
Ala
Mobile
RB. H. B. Memphis
Dickson
Donahue
Campbell and Rowan
Birmingham Edges Atlanta In Close Nine Innings
Birmingham defeated Atlanta in a tight nine inning game by a final score of 18 to 6. Prough and Elliott pitched for Birmingham with Johns and Miller behind the plate in support. Atlanta’s batters struggled to muster runs throughout.
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Birmi
Atlanta
Nee Ham
Ala
Biram
Birmingham
Prough
Elliott
Johns
Miller
Nashville Wins Over Montgomery in Poor Pitching Showing
Nashville defeated Montgomery by 7 to 1 in Montgomery yesterday as Thomas struggled. Barr and Seabaugh, Le livelt, Thomas and Flint contributed to the scoring, with Nashville piling up runs in early innings and holding off Montgomery.
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Nashville
Montgomery
Ala
Thomas
Barr
Seabaugh
Lelivelt
Flint
American Wins at Chess in Paris Match
Eugene Higgins, the New York millionaire, defeated Senor Jose Raul Capablanca in Paris after forty nine moves. Higgins exchanged queens at move thirty three gaining positional edge and two pawn losses for Capablanca before the Cuban resigned.
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Associated Press
New York
Eugene Higgins
Yarchsman
Senor
Joe Raoul Capablanca
Paris
Capablanca
Automobile Club
Frances
Britt seeks lightweight title and Johnson bout offer
Jimmy Britt plans a comeback aiming for the lightweight crown with a potential rematch against Bat Nelson. He has a commission from Australian promoter Hugh McIntosh to offer Jack Johnson $26,000 for a September fight featuring the McVey-Lareford winner.
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Associated Press
New York
Jimmy Britt
Bat’ Nelson
Hugh McIntosh
Jack Johnson
Dartmouth Aims to Repeat at New England Meet
Springfield Mass May 19 The It Field hosted the preliminary contests of the New England Intercollegiate Athletic Association with about 170 athletes from four colleges. Dartmouth hopes to win their second championship trophy as favorites.
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Daouth
Associated Press
Springfield
Mass
New England Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Dartmouth
Harvard and Yale to Accept Oxford Cambridge Track Challenge
Harvard and Yale will tonight formally accept the Oxford Cambridge track challenge for London games next July. They seek a July 20 or later start instead of July 6 to allow adequate ocean liner transport for the large American squad.
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Associated Press
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Yale
Oxford
London
Western Golfers Start First Competition Next Tuesday
Chicago May 19 Members of the Western Golfers Advertising association plan their opening tournament next Tuesday at Skekis Country. Announcements were issued yesterday and it is expected a large number of golfers will turn out for the event.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
Western Golfers’ Advertising Association
Skekis Country
Arizona finds claim oldest town in world near Phoenix
A mining engineer named A Lafave reports ruins in an Arizona tableland near Phoenix dating at least 10 000 years. He says the site shows buildings on a level plain untouched by silt or wash and buried under ten feet of prairie dust, implying ages far beyond prior claims.
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Phoenix
Ariz
T. Heapvitt Myring
Peru
A. Lafave
Arizona
Pastor Curnow Paid Back Salary After Wilkes-Barre Controversy
The Rev. Richard Curnow of Plains Presbyterian Church had months of unpaid salary after his marriage to Miss Margaret McCluskie triggered discontent among congregants in Wilkes-Barre. The Moderators Council arranged full back pay of about $30. He resigned, saying he could not stay where he and his wife were treated poorly, and will move to Meshoppen to lead another church this week.
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Wilkes-Barre
Richard Curnow
Margaret McCluskie
Tocay
Meshappen Ito
Mr. Curnow
Confessed, but Guilty No More for Gerbrick
An official recommendation to the state pardon board calls for releasing E. W. Gerbrick from the penitentiary. He was imprisoned after confessing to causing the Santa Fe wreck at Apishapa in 1903, but authorities now believe he did not commit the crime. Judge Riser and District Attorney Davidson support the clemency, citing evidence of mistaken guilt and the warden’s changed view.
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Denver
Colo
State Pardon Board
E. W. Gerbrick
Apishapa
Gerbrick
Tynan
Leoni
Grass Lake
Mich
Riser
District Court
Davidson
Amateur Boxing Tourney Opens In Madison Square Garden
The first international amateur boxing tournament in the United States opens in Madison Square Garden for two sessions under the Amateur Athletic Union. England Canada and American champions will clash in classes from 105 to heavyweight with three 3-minute rounds and a fourth-minute final. Notable entrants include Johnny Fallon Napoleon Butilier John Serino and F Hufnagle from the United States. W Pietke A Roffe A Palmer from Canada. and Frank Parks W Allen Ralph Erskine Alfred Spenceley and R C Warren from England.
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Associated Press
New York
Madison Square Garden
Amateur Athletic Union
England
Canada
America
Johnny Fallon
Boston
Napoleon Butilier
John Serino
Cambridge
F. Hufnagle
W. Pietke
Dominion
A. Roffe
A. Palmer
Sundby
Frank Parks
W. W. Allen
Ralph Erskine
Alfred Spenceley
E. Grace
Matt Wells
R. C. Warren
Sylvester Cleary Strikes Bank Window With Ball
New York May 19 A plumber's supply driver Sylvester Cleary aged about 40 said he was out of practice when a thrown ball shattered the plate glass window of the Twenty third Ward bank at Boston Road and One Hundred and Sixty seventh Street. Cleary lives at 318 West Twenty sixth Street and was arrested on a charge of malicious mischief.
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New York
Sylvester Cleary
Twenty-third Ward
Boston Road
Cleary
Wes Twenty-sixth Street
Duboise Company
Third Avenue
Riebe Undertaking Co Auto Ambulance Service
Riebe Undertaking Co offers auto ambulance service at 221 East Commercial, phone 341.
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Riebe Undertaking Co
Ice Man Wallace Seeks Forgiveness For Short Weights
Doda Wallace, once an ice wagon driver, travels to his old customers in Muskogee Oklahoma to confess and restore funds he admits to taking from hundreds of customers. He says the Lord calls him to restitution and asks women to accept repayment for short weight amounts. He claims a conversion and credits Sarsaparilla with his healing.
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Muskogee
Okla
Doda” Wallace
Ansiceman
Wallace
Chick Carter Signs Pledge After Pine Snake Prank
In Atlantic City on May 19 Chick Carter a local character signed the pledge following a prank where a nine foot pine snake was placed under a blanket on his bus seat. He reached for his rope but grabbed the snake causing a dramatic scene in Recorder Keffer's court.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Chick
Carter
Morality crusade enforces long bath suits at Long Beach
Police chief Moyer orders all bathing outfits to extend below the knee and cover to the neck for men and women. Beach parades in these costumes are forbidden and bathers must swim and return to street clothes quietly. He vows to address complaints and use premiums from enforcement locally.
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Long Beach
Cal
Moyer
Rooster Sold for 450 in Great Barrington
In Great Barrington Massachusetts Bernard N Duclos Lenox barber sold a thoroughbred buff rock rooster for 450 dollars to Dr W Seward Ward Webb of Shelbourne Falls. The buyer learned of buff rock poultry from J Pierpont Morgan a Lenox patron. Morgan found a six dollar bill under a chair and offered to return it if a patron reported a lost five. Morgan still has the bill.
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Great Barrington
Mass
Bernard N. Duclos
Lenox
W. Seward Ward Webb
Shelbourne Falls
Thumb Reattached After Rail Unloading Accident
Port Chester New York May 19 George W Kennedy track master amputated his thumb while showing workers how to unload rails from a flight car He buried the thumb then had it dressed by village president Dr N J Sands They drove to the scene dug up the thumb and re attached it with twenty six stitches The doctor is confident the finger will heal.
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Port Chester
N. Y
George W. Kennedy
N. J. Sands
Mr. Kennedy
Bookseller recounts sold 1642 Massachusetts laws for 2 dollars
Earl K. Pottle, veteran bookseller from St Paul, explains his son sold a volume of colonial laws printed in 1642 for 2 dollars centuries ago. A newspaper clipping later showed the same volume sold for 20 000 dollars in News City, a claim the family now recalls with regret and surprise.
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Dente ST. Paul
Earl K. Pottle
Massachusetts
Holcomb
News City
Witty Exchange on Calling to the Ministry
An old lady questions her nephew James about his vocation. He says he was called by the Lord, but she wonders if it was another noise he heard. The quip plays on parish life and a family mishearing a vocation.
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James
Istry
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