Wolgast Beaten by Leach Cross in Ten Round Bout
New York fans say Ad Wolgast shows only a shell of his former self after Leach Cross outboxes the lightweight champion in ten rounds. Cross dominated, with two rounds of standout offense in the fourth and sixth, while Wolgast was knocked down in the sixth but produced no lasting damage. The result leads many to believe Wolgast may have passed his prime.
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New York
Ad Wolgast
Leach Cross
Cross
Iile
Olgast
Crack Golfers Stage Metropolitan Championship Round
Thirty two of the East’s top players began match play for the Metropolitan championship at the Wamis Country Club Rye New York. Water Travis Traverse Kirkby Douglas Herreschof and Seeley featured among entrants as a strong field vied for the title. Roy Webb of Englewood topped the medal with 155.
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Rye
N. Y
Wamis Country Club
Water J. Travis
Cva Pion
Jerome D. Traverse
Oswald Kirkby
Findlay S. Douglas
Fred Herreschof
Charlies H. Seeley
Roy D. Webb
Englewood
Vancouver Triumph Over Tacoma After Eighth Inning Rally
With a one run lead Vancouver rallied in the eighth to pull away from Tacoma 4 to 2. Pitchers MN and Kaufman handled the mound duties as Vancouver benefited from late inning offense in the June game reported from Vancouver B C.
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B. C
Van
Wednes
Tacoma
Kaufman
Midweek Harbor Island trap shoot results
Les Reid led the midweek Harbor Island event as high gun with 45 of 50 targets. Among amateurs C B E McKelvey and Hugh Fleming tied for first with 45, 8 S Yonson was second with 44, D R Rhodes 43. In the 100 target shoot Reid topped with 97, Pleming 92, Grossman 6, and Miller and Rhodes tied for 1.
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Harbor Island
Les Reid
Hugh Fleming
C. BE. McKelvey
S. Yonson
D. R. Rhodes
Hugh Pleming
Matt Grossman
R. Miller
D. Rhodes
Local League Baseball Scores From Fort Lawton and Seattle
Monday results show Ballard Beavers 7 Cluets 1 at Fort Lawton with Oddson and Johnson on the Beavers battery. Georgetown Cubs beat Duwamish 20 3 behind heavy slugging. Crescents defeat North Seattle Cubs 17 2 in a Curtis stellar pitching showing. Covey Wet Wash 12 6 and 5 4 beat Fort Ward soldiers in a double header with Thompson miscue costing a potential shutout. Ruth hurt arm in second game, Rossman relief allowed one earned run.
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Fort Lawton
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Roy Larson
Cook
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Fort Ward Memorial Day
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Laundrymen
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Rossman
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O Leary and Scott Set for June 10 Boxing Night
Seattle lightweights Johnny O Leary and Pat Scott will headline the smoker opening the Anacortes Elks club house on June 10. Four preliminaries include Travie Davis of Everett versus Ed Pinkman of Seattle and Ad Schaffli of Seattle against Pat Casey of Anacortes.
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Johnny O'Leary
Pat Scott
Seattle
Anacortes Elks
Travie Davis
Everett
Ed Pinkman
Ad Schaffli
Pat Casey
Anacortes
Spokane Indians defeat Aberdeen Cats in wet baseball game
Spokane Indians beat Aberdeen Cats 7 to 5 as they hit at key moments and showed speed on the bases. Engle and Salveson pitched for the rivals, with Spokane scoring in multiple innings and Aberdeen held to a late rally.
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Aberdeen Cats
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Salveson
Spokane
Umpire Brennan Outsmarted by Rising Federal Leaguers
Umpire Bill Brennan overheard two Federal League players plotting to insult him at the park. He calmly warned them they could not escape the game with an airship and joked about beating them to town and stealing the dolls, then continued to umpire despite their insults.
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Bill Brennan
Bill
Brennan
Church League Baseball Scores North and South Sections
In the north section Queen Anne M E beat Woodland Park M E 9 to 2. Green Lake Baptist defeated Ballard Christian 5 to 3. United Lutheran edged Queen Anne Christian 3 to 2. In the south Plymouth crushed Trinity Lutheran 15 to 0, Tabernacle Baptist lost 0 to 9 to Madison M, Pilgrim. First Christian defeated First M E 9 to 0, St Mark’s and First Presbyterian 5 with batteries Chamberlain Irwin Piehl Rice Kelly.
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Queen Anne M. E
Woodland Park
M. E
Jones J
Wyatt
Morrison and
Baker
Green Lake Baptist
Ballard Christian
Ashby
Hoffstrom
Gulla
Stokke
Bishop
United Lutheran
Queen Anne Christian
Plymouth
Trinity Lutheran
Thompson and
Trucke
Bowen
Brodhagen
Schneider
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Madison M
Pilgrim
United Presbyterian
First Christian
First M. E
St. Mark's
Chamberlain
Irwin
Piehl
Rice and Kelly
Tennis Day Sets Hard Matches at Seattle Tennis Club
The second day of the high school tennis tournament brings hard matches on Seattle Tennis Club courts this afternoon. The featured clash is Kitamura of West Seattle versus Chamberlain of Broadway, with singles and doubles both on the schedule.
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Seattle
Pieh Name Sparks Jokes In New York Crowd
Pieh pitched for New York as Chicago fans taunted him with crust themed puns. The crowd jeered during a decision dispute as the game mood turned sour and the audience mocked the player with pastry humor.
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Cy Pieh
New York
Chicago
Mince
Lemon Pieh
Pieh
Puneter
Sox
Columbia Tops Penn State 4 1 In Seventh Inning Rally
A home run with one on in the seventh gave Columbia a 4 1 victory over Pennsylvania in New York on Wednesday.
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Columbia
Pennsylvania
New York
Portland Man Killed at Expo Bowls of Joy Incident
June 3 Portlander Er nest Pursel dies in the exposition zone concession called The Bowls of Joy. He was riding a bowl when he fell out and was dragged, marking a second fatality in the same ride.
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Ernest Pursel
Portland
Exposition Zone
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California halts free dictionaries printing
Webster should worry as a California ruling declares a dictionary not a text book and the state will print no free dictionaries. The June 3 notice notes the decision originates in Sacramento and affects educational material distribution.
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Sacramento
Cal
California
Baseball Scores From Coast and League Show Mixed Results
Northwest league games in Seattle Victoria Vancouver Tacoma results. National league notes St Louis beat Cincinnati 8 4 and Boston tied New York 6 in ten innings. American league results New York beat Boston and Chicago defeated Detroit. Federal league Newark edged Baltimore and Kansas City shut out Pittsburg. Coast league San Francisco topped Los Angeles 5 3 and Portland lost to Oakland 2 1.
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Tobey Heads Club at Rainier Valley Meeting
At Phalen's hall a Rainier Valley Commercial Club gathering of 125 elected officers led by 8. T. Tobey as president and Harry Bruskevitch as vice president. D. E. Hughes secretary J. A. Kelso treasurer. Directors named for Columbia City York South Seattle Brighton Beach Rainier Beach.
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Phalen's Hall
Kaiser to Visit Austro Italian Front
Berlin dispatches report Kaiser Wilhelm will travel to the Austro Italian front to inspect Austrian defenses and spend time with troops, confirming the move in Geneva on June 3.
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Geneva
Kaiser Wilhelm
Berlin
Congressmen Visit Seattle and Tacoma Leaders
Senator Thomas Hardwick of Georgia and Congressmen R Y Thomas of Kentucky and Albert Johnson visited Seattle on Wednesday. Hardwick and Johnson toured the city and Hardwick later traveled to Tacoma with Johnson. The trio rode boulevards with Judge Thomas Burke Col J M Hawthorne and Judge Alfred Battle, then Hardwick went East last night.
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Georgia
R. Y. Thomas
Kentucky
Albert Johnson
Seattle
Senator Hardwick
Tacoma
Johnson
Thomas
Thomas Burke
Col
J. M. Hawthorne
Alfred Battle
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