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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1928
Page
4
The Junior High baseball team defeated the Eagles 3 to 2 at the Country Club diamond. Homer Devour, Eagles pitcher, displayed fair form amid a tight game. South An Association scene notes Kuhn returned home Saturday from a Middle West tour.
St Louis May 22 The Cubs led by Hack Wilson's timely hits lost to the Cardinals 3-2. Hafey scored from second on an infield out, while Rotier drove in the deciding run with a single in the eighth. Batteries Jones and Gonzales for the Cubs and Reinhart and J Wilson for St Louis.
Boston wins 3 to 1 at home in a return game with Philadelphia strong pitching by Brandt who held the visitors to three hits until Southern's homer in the ninth. Hornsby and Brown singled, followed by a walk and Bell's single for two Boston runs in the sixth. Batterye Walsh McGraw and Lerdin plus Brandt and Taylor noted in the box score.
Dazzy Vance faded in the sixth as the Giants battered Brooklyn in Flatbush 9 to 5 to take game one of the series. New York roughed Vance and the infield collapsed behind him. Doak added three runs in the eighth as Brooklyn’s error total climbed to five. Mount Etna stands 10,800 feet tall and about 91 miles in circumference at the base.
A newspaper promotion touts Havana Ribbon cigars as a five cent smoke with fragrant aroma and a cool mild flavor. It claims thirty years of success and long filler tobacco, urging readers to prove the quality by buying a nickel cigar in practical pocket packages of five.
The Maroons came from behind at Waynesboro to win 7 to 5 in a two hour forty five minute game marked by wrangling. The Hustlers also won at Frederick 4 to 3 to narrow the gap for first place. Box scores note key hits and errors, with Ludke charged with the loss and Houser the win. Miss Grace Millan of Palmyra visited Mr. and Mrs. G. Ridley in North Locust Street.
Martinsburg Blue Sox rout Hubmen 15 to 3 at Willow Lane as PiercesmithRelicCrowe pace 20 hits. Box score shows Martinsburg 28 runs across innings and Hagaratown 2 runs. Other league scores list Macon over Augusta, Knoxville over Spartanburg, Wheeling over Cumberland, Fairmont over Charleroi, and Johnstown over Clarksburg with rain affecting Charlotte-Columbia.
Ray Jose, a standout middle distance runner, proved his marathon mastery by leading 261 entrants from Manhattan to Long Beach L I in a tight finish. He broke ahead near the line with a bold dash, securing top position for the event.
Cubs slump snaps a 13 game winning run as St Louis edges Chicago 3–2. Rottger drove in the decisive eighth inning run for the Cardinals while Rein hart scattered 10 hits. Hack Wilson homered for Chicago, and the Yankees blasted 22 hits in an 14–4 win over Boston.
Indian catcher Egbert Ward, from Yakima Washington, who played at Haskell University and Washington State College, joined the Hubs by wire yesterday and will head east. Ward, a four letter man who captained Haskell’s baseball nine and earned All American football honorable mention, previously drew interest from the Chicago White Sox in 1926. He hails from Yakima and has basketball hurdling and track experience.
The article notes Ruth hit his 13th homer, Gehrig his seventh, and Meusel his fourth. The Yankees totaled 22 hits for 38 bases as Stanley Coveleskie shut out the Red Sox until two on in the ninth. Eddie Collins delivered a clutch single in the eleventh for the winning run.
Baseball scores from yesterday include Martinsburg 16 Hayes 2. Boston 4 Cincinnati 5. Pittsburgh 4 Frederick (Pittsburgh 4 Frederick 4). Hanover 3 Detroit 6. St Louis 3 New York 9. Brooklyn 3 Philadelphia 7. Washington 6 Boston 3. Chicago 4 Cleveland 3. St Louis 5 Cincinnati 2. Pittsburgh 3 Cincinnati 4. Cleveland 3 Philadelphia 7. Boston 3 New York 9.
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