Power Bluffing Threatens Scranton Game Plans
Round the Sporting World reports Tom Powers may join a Pacific coast club after demanding more money from Scranton and a possible return to Syracuse. McDermott and Powers exchange barbs as training begins, with players arriving by Saturday for a season kickoff tour to New Jersey Boston and New York venues and a handball court being built at the grounds.
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Tom Powers
Scranton
Metermott
Power
Syracuse
Pueble
McDermott
Herr Kuntesch
Hartford
New Haven
Princeton
Orange
New England
New Jersey
Paterson
New Bedford
New Yorlk
Brockton
Pall River
Cuban Giants
Carbondale
Ward
Central City West Side bowling series opens tomorrow
A five match bowling series begins tomorrow night at Backus alley in Central City. West Side team includes Warne Yoos Allspaugh Koons Jamieson. Central City team lists West plahl Wharton Stone Smith Evana well. The event aims at supremacy and supper with no records expected.
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Central City
West Side
Backus
Warnke
Alyi
Messrs
Warne
Yoos
Allspaugh
Koons
Jamieson
Westplahl
Wharton
Stone
Smith
Evana
Fire destroys McDonald stable herd at Buffalo driving park
A blaze at the Buffalo driving park last night destroyed Alonzo McDonald’s stables and 20 horses perished. The fire started from an oil stove explosion in a cleaner’s room. Stables owned by J. C. Hamlin were worth 10 000 dollars with about 15 000 dollars loss on the horses.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Alonzo McDonnald
McDonald's
Red Gothard
Blue Bird
J. C. Hamlin
Ekera Coming Promises European Strong Fall Racing Team
Tom Eck is in Europe with his team and expects to return in August with a large group of foreign riders for the fall races. He notes local prizes remain in contention and will announce further details upon his return.
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Ekera
Tom Eck
Europe
American racing circles eye influx of foreign rider
The text forecasts larger, more frequent races in America with foreign riders. It notes potential many match races this season and suggests Michael, the small Frenchman, may visit. Hamilton aims to arrange an hour race with a large stake and offers $500 for training expenses if Michael competes in the United States.
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America
Michael
Hamilton
Ashland Promoters Stage Boxing Show Led by Tim Hurst
In Ashland Pennsylvania an athletic club formed with Tim Hurst as president treasurer and match-maker. He booked Casper Leon and Steve Flanagan for an April 7 boxing event billed as a local attraction amid wary neighbors. Flanagan urged a rematch while Hurst warned of legal action and public scrutiny over alleged boxing fraud.
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Murst Severcy Rocs
Ashland
Tim Hurst
Waa
Tim
Casper Leon
Philadelphia
Steve Flanagan
Hut Flanagan
Hurst
Taste
Quakerstown
Flanagan
New York
Stiff Flanagan
Timothy Hurst
T. J. Flanagan
United States
Baseball and horse racing notes from late season chatter
The article surveys baseball trades and umpire shifts with mentions of Lampe Luby and McGraw amid fever diagnoses and managerial japes. It moves to a two minute trotter debate, profiling Sunol and Bonner, plus a gallery of famous trotters and their quirks and stable life anecdotes.
South Side Naseball Club Plans Season as Mooste Hosts Crawd Ball
The South Side Naseball club held a crawd ball at Central Park hall Monday night. J. W. Luckey, the Mooste crack twirler, will wear a Wilkes-Barre uniform this season. The Mooste Populars reorganize for the coming season with Manager Mulray signaling a hustle filled campaign. Patrick J. Phitbin of the Minookas is viewed as a strong potential acquisition for minor teams. John J. O’Neill, noted Minooka catcher, will backstop for Stroudsburg Normal School for part of the season. he remains a top amateur catcher in the region.
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Naseball
Central Park Hall
J. W. Luckey
Mulr Saya
Patrick J. Phitbin
Minookas
Teasus
Leagood Witter
John J. O'Neill
Minooka
Stroudsburg Normal School
Enly
O'Neill
New Standard Rules for American Trotting Association
Chicago April 7. At the annual stockholders meeting a new registration standard was adopted to limit reliance on performance alone. Provisions define eligible animals including progeny of registered standard horses and mares, and horses with specific trotting records, with pacing terms replacing trotting in two places.
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American Trotting Association
Chicago
American Trotting Association of North America
Horolf
Ferses
Regulation doubles animal registration fees after May 1 1857
A historical notice states that starting on May 1 1857 all animals over two years old must be registered and that registration fees will be doubled for those animals. The text implies a government or local authority enacting higher charges as a revenue measure.
List of racehorse and performer names with various figures
A crowded list of names including Brooklyn Henry of Navarre Clifford Keenan Lazzarone Halma Dorian Counter Tenor Bright Phoebus Sir Walter Nanki-Pooh Hornpipe Belmar The Commoner Senator Grady Vinetor Mandspring Sara forva Lake Shore Connoisreur Erma C Flora Thornton Primrose Dutch Skater and others with numerous numbers following each, suggesting entries and values in a racing or performance catalog.
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New York
Brooklyn
Henry of Naverre
Clifford
Keenan
Larzerone
Halma
Dr. Rice
Counter Tenor
Bright Phoebus
St. Walter
Nanki-Pooh
Hornpipe
Belmar
the Commoner
St. Maxim
Windtor
Senator Grady
Ben Brush
Sarafosa
Dorian
Sir Walter
Vinetor
Mandspring
Saraforva
Lake Shore
Connoisreur
Erma C
Scranton Bicycle Club Sees Growth and Plans
The South Side Bicycle club and Scranton Bicycle club hold meetings as plans form for new clubs in Pittston and a cinder path linking Scranton Carbondale and Honesdale. Charles Murphy becomes a professional rider at his request. Delegates are elected to a good roads convention in Carbondale while celebrations and races are scheduled across Binghamton Allentown Elmira.
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Pittston
South Side Bicycle Club
Scranton Bicycle Club
Charles Murphy
Green Ridge Wheelmen
Stockholm
Sweden
Foord
Wilkes- Barre
Howard Davis
R. A. Wambold
I. L. Rowlson
Green Ridge
Carbondale
Fenton
New York State
Scranton
South Side Board of Trade
England
New York
J. W. Pepper
Philadelphia
M. Florey
Spalding- Bidwell
Penn Cycle Club
Reading
Wyomissing Cycle Company of Diamonds
Charles W. Krick
Barnes- White
Binghamton
Allentown
Elmira
Scranton Flyers
Keller
White
Cleveland
Pittaton
Harry Lucas
Jack Connolly
Barny Connolly
H. C. Wallace
William Boyle
Ernest Gilmore
Fred Edwards
George Gardner
George Hintermiester
Nevertheleas
Charles Coleman
Syracuse
Bittenbender & Co
Pop" Foote
Charles
Pop
Hyde Park
Robinson Street
Lackawanna
Main Avenues
Wyoming
Main Avenue
West Side
Racing and sports news from Newport and beyond
Racing at Newport, Kentucky, may begin in April. Montauk is favored in the English derby by backers of 250 to 25,000. Fitzsimmons and Corbett fight bet discussed. Olympian games draw 250 foreign entrants via Athens cable. Elkton race meeting starts Saturday the 11th. Cinderella mare yields a brown colt by Han over, foals sold for 10,000 and 896,000. A Lebanon mayoral flap and a Cincinnati mayoral rebuff of Jim Corbett noted. Two Haverhill workers fight. one dies. Sarn Rose, a Brooklynn entry, damaged and out for June race. Canadian bookies once heavily backing him.
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Newport
Santiago
Lucky Baldwin
Atud
Richard Croker
Montauk
AL Smith
Fitzsimmons
Corbett
Athens
Elkton
Cinderella
Hanover
Andrew Moore
Lebanon
Cincinnati
Jim Corbett
Jim
Washington Post
Arthur Bradley
Richard Ingram
Haver- Him
Maes
Aga Reevlt
Joe BE. Rearam
Sarn- Roesa
Brooklyn
Mystic Cure Promised To Heal Rheumatism
Chronic rheumatism cured says Dr B H Hettinger of Indianapolis after using Det chon's Mystic Cure. He reports walking without a cane in four days and two bottles restoring health and urges others with rheumatism to try the Mystic Cure, recommended by druggist Carl Lorens of Scranton.
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B. H. Hettinger
Indianapolis
Ind
Detchon
Carl Lorens
Lackawanna Avenue
Scranton
Sporting Gossip: Tim Hurst and baseball banter across eras
The column narrates ribbing about umpire Tim Hurst amid a Pirates Senators matchup and recalls boxing figures John L. Sullivan and Sankey. It riffs on pitching injuries, famous pitchers like Jimmy Galvin Mullane and Nichols, and then shifts to cycling with the Fowler “sex” race against the Empire express locomotive, detailing gear and speed projections for a six rider, six seated machine.
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Fowler
New York State
Empire Express
Wheel maintenance guide for early bicycles and gear nuts
A detailed buyer and rider checklist lists required items and maintenance steps to keep a bicycle running smoothly. It includes tools like a camera, chronograph, lamp, bell, and a variety of cleaners, lubricants, and spare parts, plus step by step care like cleaning tires, frame, chain, bearings, and proper rear-wheel adjustment.
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Macy
Saya
Loula Cibbe
Old Walsh
Emall
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George
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Humber & CO
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Peerless
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D. J. Slowe
B&h
W. E Bittenbender
Willis A. Kemmerer
Spruce St
Riding Academy
Wyoming Avenue
Bit’tenbender&Co
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