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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1902
Page
2
Advertisement notes an excursion to Asheville North Carolina via The Southern, advising to apply at nearest Ticket Office. Mentions M. H Bone as agent for Western Pass and Texas location.
Luling travels to San Pedro Park for a 4 30 PM game against San Antonio with two Lockhart stars Fatty Magee and Newton Trigg listed as heavy hitters while Andy Sante pitches for San Antonio seeking revenge after a prior drubbing. A 2 30 PM preliminary match features Washer Bros and Sam Houstons. Baseball dignitaries tour San Antonio en route to California with dates in late October or early November. stars include Davis Lajoie Bradley Holmes Jones Mercer McGuire Bernhard and Keeler among others.
The season sees record smashes across sports with Frank Kramer initiating the trend. Harry Elkes returns from Europe in good form and clocks 41 miles 250 yards in the hour to beat Will Stinson Champion, who starts by riding ten miles in swift time at Washington.
San Antonio’s baseball fans anticipate strong action this summer as Beeville Lockhart and Uvalde clubs express plans to play here. Beeville aims for Friday to Sunday next week, while a Uvalde request targets San Pedro for the following weekend. The ballpark has already booked events for Friday and Saturday, limiting weekend play. Fans can expect competitive games beginning soon with one club still to be secured for Sunday.
The San Antonio Coyotes left last night for Castroville where they will play today. The lineup includes John Ankerson catcher, Schramm pitcher, Schwartz shortstop, A. Carolus first base, John Varga third base, Conley Lacey left field, Vante center field, H. Cowart right field.
The Hayseed Social Club held a prize bowl at Sommer's garden alley Friday night. Ladies winners included Miss Sommers with a rocking chair and Mrs. Boyle with a center table. special prize went to Miss Sommer for most nines. Gentlemen winners featured G A Lowther with a chamber set and M Gloeckner with a hammock. a fine lunch followed.
No matches were played yesterday in the city championship series though officials expect strong competition for Monday as players prepare for upcoming contests.
The American Rowing Association formed a steering board to organize the first American Henley to be held on the Schuylkill river at Philadelphia in July next year. Members include Thomas Reath and others from Philadelphia Cambridge Boston Ithaca New York City and Detroit.
The New Fencing Association draws up regulations for Intercollegiate fencing contests. Based on Amateur Fencers League lines with changes. Judges score 25 percent: 15 for form and 10 for touches. Elite amateurs only to officiate. Elimination determines victors as teams drop out each round.
The Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club of New York approves a new class of fifteen foot keel sloops to rival 1897 knockabouts. Boats feature mainsail jib and spinnaker with up to 350 square feet sail area, open cockpits, and nonsinkable design under the new measurement rule.
A purse of 20000 dollars drew Cruzados owned by Lucky Baldwin and McChesney owned by C Hildreth into a probability race. Injuries at Harlem Chicago forced both horses out of the American Derby. Hildreth offered Baldwin’s wager for a Derby route race, Baldwin accepted, and a future feature race was planned.
Mrs. M. F. Lindsley known as Wanda and wife of Milt P. Lindsley died at her Cincinnati residence. A familiar figure at major trap tournaments and gun clubs across the central and eastern states, she earlier enjoyed shooting but health decline in recent years led her to give it up.
Ernest Tripp won the Indiana flying target title at Munice with a score of 92 out of 100, securing the championship. The event crowned him the state’s top marksman in the discipline.
Bargains offer forfeited pledges at Emerson and Co with prices cut to about half of original cost. The notice highlights reduced values and limited quantities as sales proceed.
An amusing tale surrounds Benjamin Constant’s first painting Too Late showing Fortune and Glory entering as Death looms over a dying artist. A professor of music visits, declares the artist a humbug upon meeting him, and orders him to depart the young creator’s work divides opinion.
The story recalls Pitt presenting a royal speech at Windsor with the king demanding a goldfish reference. Pitt obliged after the king, struck by the Windsor fountain’s goldfish, insisted on including a note about the fish before approving the speech. The tale surfaced after both Pitt and King George had died.
A late night traveler recounts a rough bar incident where a punchline lands on nationality. The punch line flips the joke when the battered man reveals he is a Swede, causing continued laughter at the pub.
Canaries fed cayenne pepper turn from yellow to red as the pepper’s oily coloring vehicle aids color change. The pepper's tinctorial and irritative substances lose coloring power when extracted by alcohol, but olive oil restores it. White hens show similar coloring effects and can indicate temperature shifts by plumage changes. their yolks become bright red.
The chief value of salad plants lies in their saline content especially rich in potash salts. Cooking removes these, so eating them uncooked preserves their crisp cool succulent leaves which provide water to the system.
A dialogue between lovers centers on money as comfort. She asks if wealth matters to him and he replies it does as a guarantee of support even after death. She counters with the fear of her own death, and he affirms his provision for her.
A Philadelphia Press brief recalls a pessimistic waiter lamenting lower tips and contrasts his era with the tale of Esau trading his birthright for a mess of pottage, illustrating changing generosity.
St Helena presents a geologic landscape dominated by volcanic features and extinct craters. Pinnacles bear curious names like Lot's Wife the Man and Horse the Asses Kara and Hold fast Tom.
The nation’s top iron and steel producer is Pittsburg, with mills producing $90,798,086 in value. McKeesport, Pennsylvania, ranks second with an output of 34,339 in unspecified units.
The fragment notes a figure of 612 and a Chicago total of $31 620 174 associated with Mahin's Magazine, hinting at a financial or circulation metric referenced in the publication.
A Paris printing works produced confetti from punched calendar scraps. A playful hair toss sparked a fashion for the novelty item. The owner then developed machinery to mass produce confetti, creating a global industry and millions in revenue.
A business man advertised for a bookkeeper and a jobless young woman with one cent to her name answered by mailing a postal card. Impressed, he hired her, and months later offered marriage. She had spent her last cent on a card and mailed it at a street corner, saying she dropped a penny in the slot and got a husband.
A Boston Journal note recounts an actor who summered in Wilton Missouri where farmers discarded liver and innards after butchering. He offered money but was snubbed. Later he learns locals tag him the man who eats innards, as a jeering crowd trails him through the village.
A writer notes Japanese rail car etiquette with women removing tiny shoes and sitting with feet folded, lighting a tobacco pipe, and all passengers keeping feet on seats. A blue uniform ticket collector bows twice to each passenger as he collects tickets.
In a Belfast football match between Ireland and Scotland an Irish fan shouted Sit on them Ireland. An old Scotchman replied You can sit on the leek mon and maybe you can sit on the rose but you cannot sit on the thistle.
Experiments show an acre of grassland yields at least 6 400 quarts of water in a day and an acre of sunflowers would yield more. Swamps and malarial marshes have been reclaimed by planting sunflowers or eucalyptus trees which pump water and improve air, earth and water conditions.
Mrs Gunning pleads with Harry about a bird found in the scene. Mr Gunning admits to shooting the bird and jokes about stuffing it for a bonnet prompting surprised reactions. The brief item captures a domestic moment told in a witty newspaper voice.
The Chicago Tribune quotes a speaker detailing a community move from a church past to a temple of progressive thought, signaling a renaming that reflects changing beliefs. The remark frames the change as a broader cultural shift rather than a simple rebranding.
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