Walter Johnson to Manage Washington Club for Three Years
Clark Griffith announced Walter Johnson will manage the Washington club for three years with full control over salaries and personnel. Griffith said Johnson will rule with the iron hand and receive no outside interference, signaling strong leadership and a bold new direction for the franchise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Johnson
Washington
Clark Griffith
Griffith
Johnson
Griff
Walter
Shires of White Sox Shows Quiet Strength On Field
Runs to Fours Art Shires, colorful first baseman for the Chicago White Sox, played for four colleges under different names in four years. In his major league debut he had four hits including a three-bagger off Ruf fing of the Red Sox. Despite hype, Shires remains modest and hard to interview, often playing through a badly injured ankle.
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Art Shires
Chicago White Sox
Boston Red Sox
Shires
Veteran Hurler Forced to Quit Diamond Work
Ruszell Jing Johnson a pitcher for the Allentown club in the Eastern League and formerly with the Philadelphia Athletics and Baltimore Orioles has been ordered to quit baseball by his physician due to a leaking heart. He has voluntary retired after developing heart pain following a warm Providence game and a heavy pitching stretch.
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Ruszell
Jing” Johnson
Allentown
Philadelphia Athletics
Baltimore Orioles
Providence
Louisville to stage night baseball in 1930
William Deal, business manager of the Louisville Baseball Company, says the Colonels may host night games in 1930. Club officials have discussed plans after sundown with General Electric engineers.
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William Deal
Louisville Baseball Company
American Association
Colonels
General Electric Company
Baseball Memories and Figures From the Early 20th Century
A roundup of baseball anecdotes and player notes. Burton Grimes hopes for 30 wins with the Pirates this season after a 25 win 1928, while Buck Freeman’s 1899 home run record is recalled. Mentions of players, trades, umpire appointments, and historical game tidbits span the era, including Cy Williams, Joe Glard, and Rube Marquard in managerial moves.
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Burleigh Grimes
Pirates
Buck Freeman
Babe Ruth
Rosy picks Shufflin Phil Douglas as money pitcher of era
Milwaukee broadcaster Rosy Bill Ryan picks Shufflin Phil Douglas as the best money pitcher of the last 25 years, praising his nerve in late innings and recalling his ace role for John McGraw with the Giants. He notes Douglas’s temperance issues and McGraw’s ban on lending him money.
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Eddie Plank
Grover Cleveland Alexander
Herb Pennock
Rosy Bill Ryan
Milwaukee Brewers
Rory
Shufflin
Phil Douglas
John McGraw
Phil
Giapta
Douglas
Giants
McGraw
Thieves Who Rob Women Are Flogged Case in Liverpool
British crime notes compare flogging to imprisonment as punishment for violence against women. Albert Grunshaw received twelve strokes of the cat and six months in prison for an attempted robbery at a sub post office, after blinding a postmistress with pepper and firing blank cartridges.
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Liverpool
New York State’ Crime Commission
England
Albert Grunshaw
Charles
Bolton Road
Lancaster
Grunshaw
Elizabeth Ellen Cottam
Miss Cottam
Short
Harvard Crew Keeps Ed Brown as Coach
Ed Brown will remain coach of the Harvard crew, an official announcement states. The list also notes Frank Wickhorst, former Navy star, as one of Iowa’s line coaches for the upcoming fall season.
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Ed Brown
Harvard
Frank Wickhorst
Navy
Iowa
Crowd Supports Starving University Graduate
A NYC crowd on Broadway at Eighty eighth street helped Ernest Barber, a 23 year old UVA graduate unable to find work, who had not eaten in three days. Passersby provided coffee and sandwiches, a $100 purse was raised, and a woman offered lodging and train fare home.
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New York
Broadway
Eighty-eighth Street
Ernest Barber
University of Virginia
Commons Approve 500000 For Radium to Tackle Cancer
The house of commons approved a 500000 appropriation to distribute radium to hospitals for cancer treatment. It was disclosed that 54000 people died of cancer in Great Britain in 1927.
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London
House of Commons
Great Britain
Drugstore Coeds and Subways Under the City Lights
In New York a new type appears the drugstore cowgirl who spends noon hours in Greenwich Village shops chatting over sodas. A Remington exhibit at the public library showcases West imagery. A sidewalk coin-retrieval man explains subway grating fishing. News photographers flood Park Row as French plate tricks surface in camera parlance.
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An & Siam
Chuck
New York
Greenwich Village
Frederick Remington
New York Public Library
Remington
Rochelle
City Hf
Snakes Slow Power Line Patrols Along Delaware River
In Newburgh New York hundreds of poisonous snakes hinder patrols on the high tension line near Port Jarvis. Patrolman J E Marsh reports killing ninety reptiles in a few days as others fight copperheads rattlers and other dangerous snakes. Heavy rains and heat are blamed for the unusual outbreak.
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Newburgh
N. Y
Delaware River
Port Jarvis
J. E. Marsh
Typhus Kills 13 in Peiping Province Famine Camp
Thirteen famine workers died of typhus in the Kausu Province, many of them American missionaries, according to recent advices received here.
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Peiping
China
Kausu
Strange insect team tied to carpenter bee and mite
In Boulder Colorado a curious pair the carpenter bee and a tiny mite challenge scientists. Norma LeVeque of the University of Colorado notes the mite lives in a peculiar abdominal pollen of female bees and nests. The insects occur only in tropical Old World regions and their relationship remains unresolved. The hypothesis suggests mites reduce fungal growth in timber galleries and groom their hosts of excess pollen after flower raids.
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Boulder
Col
Norma LeVeque
University of Colorado
Old World
Scotland Yard uses wireless networks for crime fighting
London police control room on the Thames runs a private wireless system sending tips to flying squad cars across London. Messages relay criminal activity, and photographs and fingerprints travel globally. Vehicles are fast, discreet, and highly equipped, with secret codes and international communications backing operations.
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London
Thames
London Police
Scotland Yard
Salmon Fails to Make Curve in Northwest River
In Seattle a king salmon sped up the Duwamish river at high speed with a bone in its teeth and fins beating, but could not bend a turn and washed ashore on a beach. Fred W. Newell Jr. witnessed the commotion, photographed the fish, and swore the tale true.
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Seattle
Wash
Northwest
Duwamish
Fred W. Newell, Jr
Newell
Romance collapses as sweetheart deported from Buffalo
James J. Pfeiffer, 23, faces consequences after romantic smuggling with Colleen Rons Touhey of Roscommon Ireland ends with deportation to Canada. Pfeiffer was fined 25 dollars and the Irish sweetheart was arrested in Buffalo during a Lake Erie ferry crossing.
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Buffalo
James J. Pfeiffer
Canada
Colleen
Rons Touhey
Roscommon
Ireland
Quebec
Anna
James
Pfeiffer
Lake Erie
Watch 125 Years Old Rum Nashville Item
Odle of Lexington Tenn reports a gold open face Roman numeral watch bought in England about 125 years ago. It had not run for 65 years but, after repair by a jeweler, now appears to be in perfect running order with exquisite engraving on the back and edge.
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Nashville
Tenn
Odle
Lexington
England
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