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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1922
Page
9
Physical Director McClellan of the YMCA convened a meeting to organize a summer Gandlot League for junior and sandlot teams. The plan calls for weekly Saturday games, later twilight play, fifteen-player rosters with cuts, league fees to cover equipment, and strict conduct rules. About eight teams are entered, with more signing on. next meeting is Thursday at 4 15 p m in the YMCA office.
Senior Church Twilight league draw shows six teams including Methodists Church of Christ Grace Lutheran First Congregational St Pauls Lutheran and St John Lutheran with plan to start at Cascade Park on May 16 under Y M C A leadership. Players must attend Sunday school or choir and each team posts ten dollars for bell purchases as league begins. Contact Physical Director Bill McClellan at the Y M C A for details.
Meeting of Metropolitan Jockey Club opens at Jamaica Long Island. Mainland Jockey Club at Pimlico. Kentucky Racing Association at Lexington. Western International league baseball season opens. Kansas State trapshooting at Eldorado. Mississippi State trapshooting at Greenwood Segalla Missouri. Mike Burkeys Far Keiser boxing 11 rounds Cumberland Maryland.
Report covers multiple games with the Detroit Tigers beating the Browns 3 1 to tie for first, the Giants sweeping the Braves to seize the top spot, and misty notes on pitchers Coveleskie, Marquard, and others. The text references Mogridge assault shock and scattered Braves hits in a chaotic summary.
Weeney notes the Pole, Pirates and Reds in a high scoring game while the Yanks halt a losing streak and tie with the Browns for first. Johnny Weismuller at Culver Military Academy sets a new world record of 259 2-5 seconds for the 100 metre swim breaking Duke Kahanamoku’s 1929 mark.
In Springfield Illinois yesterday Jess Haines pitched a no hit no run exhibition game for the St. Louis Cardinals as they edged the Thinvis Watches 1 to 0. Haines dominate on the mound securing the win for his club.
Yesterday's games produced two home runs by C Walker for the Athletics and one by E Smith of the Red Sox. Perkins and Miller added solo homers for the Athletics and Harris for the Red Sox, with Pipp contributing a homer for the Yankees.
League table shows New York 18 12 6. St Louis 18 12 6. Chicago 9 TBBS. Cleveland 17 9 471 Philadelphia 17 8 471 Boston 36 7 8 437 Washington 19 8 11 421 Detroit 17 5 12 294.
LaGrange High School lists recent events including Dr Thurston magic act at Hanna Theater in Cleveland, grade programs for A. and Grant’s birthday, and a speech by Rev Thos Lasley on the value of high school education. Photos, class meetings, and fundraisers for clocks are noted along with student achievements and upcoming events.
The eighth grade commence ment will be held in the Town Hall the latter part of May. The vale dictorianship is between Gladys Smith and Florence Jackson. The operetta, Love Pirates of Hawaii, will be given again Thursday evening, May 4, in the La Grange Town Hall.
The funeral of BE Mitchell will be held Thursday at 2:00 from the homes. Local notices mention Decoration day planning, postponed Ladies' Aid, and a meeting with Rev Hurley as speaker. Several town residents visited, plus updates on patients, visitors from Elyria, and local farm life remarks.
In New York on May 3 jewels worth about 100000 were taken from Mrs. Mitchell Harrison wife of a Philadelphia sugar refiner. The theft happened Sunday as she helped her daughter aboard a Pullman train bound for Europe. The jewels included a small ring set containing the largest emerald in the country kept in a jewel case.
In Montreal on May 5 a battle erupted on the harbor front as about five hundred striking longshoremen clashed with a heavy constabulary force. Police were wounded and hundreds of shots fired before reserves bolstered the defenders and the strikers broke and fled. Casualties among the strikers are not known.
The City of Elyria adopts an amendment to Resolution 1483 with The New York Central Railroad Company to expand and reallocate costs for street repaving sewer and water work and track elevation. The measure adjusts responsibilities for financing completion of the project and extends the city’s cost up to twenty five thousand nine hundred dollars with the railroad covering remaining expenses. The ordinance takes effect upon acceptance by the railroad.
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