Hagerstown Champs Lead 1920 Blue Ridge League Schedule
The 1920 Blue Ridge League opener set for May 2 in Frederick features Buck Ramsey's Hustlers facing the Hagerstown champions. A 100 game season runs to Labor Day with double headers on May 30 July 4 and Labor Day. Opening days for each town follow May 16 with two games at home weekly then four, and auto trucks will transport six towns.
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Hustlers
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Chambersburg
Martinsburg
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Waynesboro
Hanover
Mardens
Boyer
Blue Ridge
Fig
Herbert S. Foltz
Henninger
Alsatians Face Shepherdstown Tonight In Key Showdown
The Alsatia five prepare for a tough away game against Shepherdstown, aiming to rebound after split results with Martinsburg. Shepherdstown defeated Martinsburg twice, leaving Alsatians ready for a stiff test. lineup notes include Barks, Hall, Legge, Mathias, and Hauver among others.
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Shepherdstown
Martinsburg
Alsatians
Shepherds
Pos
Alsatias Barks
Sports Flashes Spark Spring Training in Odd Places
A jumble of playful lines on spring training, boxing talk, golf fights, and baseballs from Hamlin to Havana hints at exhibitions, bets, and fan fever. Mentions Dempsey Carpentier hopes, Ruth and Baker, and looming camp arrivals amid rainy delays and curious wagers.
Babe Ruth Sets Off On Training Regimen In Hot Springs
Babe Ruth is pictured at Hot Springs wearing a rudder shirt, exercising with baths and hill hikes to shed 30 pounds. The piece notes his disciplined, wholehearted approach and his goal to improve, while predicting weight regain next year and emphasizing his status as the sport's biggest figure.
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Geason
Babe
Hot Springs
Waynesboro Seeks 4000 for Baseball Season Improvements
Waynesboro reports that the Blue Ridge League needs 3509 to 4000 dollars to prepare the field for the season. Funds will cover regrading, diamond repairs, grandstand expansion, and moving the fence with sowing of Crang over the field. Subscriptions open now with half due in April and the rest in June. Baseball has been a success locally, despite extra costs, with the club ending the last year with a surplus of over 500 dollars.
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Waynesboro
Blue Ridge League
Clark
Archbishop Dougherty Made Cardinal in Rome Consistory
The Most Rev. Dennis J. Dougherty Archbishop of Philadelphia was elevated to the rank of Cardinal during a Vatican consistory on March 7. His creation adds a new cardinal from the American church to the College of Cardinals.
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International News
Rome
Dennis J. Dougherty
Philadelphia
Vatican
Film Notes on Smiles and Screen Dreams in 1920s Cinema
A film column riffs on silent movie tropes and star names. It mentions Hi Speed films and actors like Owen Moore Maurice Costello and T Roy Barnes while joking about dream themes and sensational titles such as The Man Who Lost Himself and A Divorce of Convenience, reflecting era taste and industry gossip.
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Owen Moore
The Crazy Quilt of Global Fads and Trades
Tokyo boasts more book shops than any city while grown men and children fly kites in Japan and China. Holland sees women at brick yards, England buys large amounts of American butter and cheese, London has ten stringers of pearls, and Bermuda's cold roads rank among the finest.
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Japan
China
Holland
London
Bermuda
Betty and Her Beau Across The Way
The young lady across the way notes her vote was cast with enthusiasm but hears talk of efficient political machines in some precincts and believes they will become active in time.
47 Pound Wildcat Shot Near Garratt Cave
Cumberland March 7 One of the largest wildcats in the region was shot by Hiram Hostetter in a rock cave at Ping Run near Garratt after it was caught by trap. The animal weighed about 612 feet long and was carried home on Hostetter’s back, measuring five and a half feet tip to tip.
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Allegany
Cumberland
Hiram Hostetter
Ping Run
Garratt
Hostetter
Five Suspects Arrested Over Registered Mail Theft
Chicago March 7 five suspects are under arrest and will be questioned about the theft of five pouches of registered mail from a government mail truck at a postal station late Saturday. The loot, estimated at sixty thousand dollars, has not been recovered.
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International News
Chicago
Two Wayneboro Shops Close Down
Waynesboro March 7 with the exception 26 to 30 then who are completing special order work the plant at the Landis Todt Company closed down Thursday night will so remain for at least two weeks the future depends entirely upon the number of orders received the local B B plant slowed down the flat week
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Waynesboro
Landis Todt
B. B
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