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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1907
Page
2
West Penn league president Tom Haymond ordered the Connellsville team to play Fairmont after Scottdale failed to appear. Haymond’s control over the schedule led to a forced game, while Clarksburg would have forfeited 9 to 0. Excursionists faced disappointment as the advertised game drew no show.
An advertised remedy named Man dan Pile Remedy claims to relieve pain and inflammation from all forms of hemorrhoids. Sold by H. F. Burke for 50 cents, with the product positioned as easily applied directly to the trouble, promising painless relief.
In Traction Park Fairmont edge Connellsville 6 to 5 after 10 innings as both teams faulted on defense. McParlan and Connors batted for Fairmont while Eyerman and Griffin caught for Connellsville. League results list other scores and a Scottdale win by forfeit over Clarksburg.
In a seven on Saturday game the Clarksburg Americans, short seven men, added two players from Flemington to beat Rosemont 13 to 6. Altop sparked the Americans with four extra base hits, Deems and Stealey contributed timely hits, Cupit pitched well allowing three Rosemont hits, and the crowd hailed a stronger American performance despite early Rosemont lead.
The Stealey addition team labeled jokers bragged of beating glass workers and Stenley addition, but the match at Baltimore Heights grounds ended quickly as the Hazel-Atlas influenced encounter turned into a lopsided contest. Watson Reds intervened but could not salvage the show, with glass workers scoring eighteen runs and delivering a shutout.
President Tom Haymond of the West Penn baseball league has announced his schedule for the forthcoming week, sent to Pittsburgh for publication in the Dispatch. The frame up lists matchups from Monday through Sunday including Greensburg Scottdale Connellsville Clarksburg Fairmont Kittanning and Butler with several open dates.
Aug 12 in Zanesville Ohio the local P O M league faced the New York Nationals, holding them scoreless through six innings before Walker delivered a two-base hit into right field in the seventh, with Walker, Shriver, Taylor, Wiltie and Bowerman contributing as the game finished 14-9 for New York in the final line. Also notes on a near-fatal black snake incident at Parkersburg, a Washington-bound trip for James F. Allen, and an advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials from Toledo druggists.
The West Penn Baseball League may collapse within a week as six teams face turmoil over garbled schedules and box office receipts. President Haymond and his assistant aim to keep the league intact to finish the season. Connellsville te.am on the edge. Fairmont Clarksburg Butlerham Scottdale may keep four teams together, others dwindling. Mrs Browning and son visit from Grafton.
An OCR fragment touts Hicks' Ca as not narcotic or dope and claims it removes the cause. It urges readers to get a bottle to fox headaches pains or colds, with a reference to liquid format and immediate pleasant effect, available at all drug stores.
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