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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1903
Page
7
Manager Watkins leads his Indians in good form as they depart for Milwaukee to open a two game series with the Brewers. All pitchers and previously injured players are reported in shape, with high hopes of a stronger showing on this Western trip.
A large crowd watched two games at Brighton Beach. The Indianapolis A B C Club beat the Lucky Horseshoes 50. The Reserves outplayed Carmel 14 to 4 behind battery Queisser and Broughton. Nearby games saw K. F. M beat Greens Burg 10 to 5 with Gale pitching well. Elwood hosted a win over Duesseldorfers 5 to 2.
Authorities enforce strict measures to stop workmen gatherings as taverns close and most bakeries suspend activity. Public streets stay quiet while security curbs unrest and prevents organized assemblies. Officials aim to maintain order amid labor tensions and shortages.
The cup defender Reliance, stripped of all sails, was towed to Bristol by the Sunbeam after a brush with the Constitution showed its new mainsail failed to set properly. The Shamrock III was also towed to dry dock at Erie Basin for race preparations.
Artie Simms of Akron and Charles Berry of Milwaukee battled fifteen rounds to a draw at Pickwick Athletic Club in Minneapolis. Rain made the outdoor ring slippery. only in the third round did either gain an advantage. Both fought at catch weights and will likely be rematched at a defined weight. Frank E. Force officiated as referee.
Terre Haute shut out Marion in the second game as Marion split the twin bill. Fort Wayne won both games against Dayton, while Evansville dropped two one-run losses to Grand Rapids. Wheeling fell to South Bend, and Terre Haute sold shortstop Kling to Colorado Springs in a separate note.
Ex Sheriff Tom Dunn recounted at a Democratic Club how State Police Justice Duffy visited an upstate jail and met a prisoner with a rat. The inmate said he feeds the rat daily and values it above other creatures, prompting Duffy to remark that every man hides a good impulse if found. The judge then asked how the prisoner became a lawyer, as the prisoner replied with a cheerful quip about the warden.
Cincinnati beat St Louis 5 to 2 on Aug 9 in the first Sunday game of the season at home. Hahn was hit more often than Murphy but kept the hits scattered and Cincinnati outhit St Louis with timely hitting and strong pitching. Attendance 9,360.
V. Vanderbilt’s Alpha with Nash Turner aboard triumphed in the Grand Prix du Cercle International at Vichy worth 20,000 dollars. In Deauville, Vanderbilt’s Marigold finished third in the Prix Chemin Deferque.
In Buffalo on August 9 H J Klein, Grand Circuit meet judge, issued a strong statement on a scandal in the 2 06 pace at Lebanon. Little Squaw owner driver F O Ceideberg was pulled from the sulky as Ben Kennedy took the heat and race. Hubinger alleged outside fakery as Charley Hoyt beat Ceideberg's mare in slow time.
Anderson Indiana August 9 polo teams for the Western League are nearly signed. Anderson McGilvray Mercer Farrell Gardner Burgess Spencer Miller as utility man. Elwood Roberts Lyons Lewis Fitzgerald White O Malley. Muncie Hart Pierce Jean Holderness Mullen Higgins as utility rush. Richmond Cunninghams Bone Mansfield Hadley Jessup Racine Campbell Hipson Cameron Griffith Cushman. Indianapolis two signed Way Coggshall. John R Page Marion will announce his team soon. Thos W Burt Lafayette president Northern League says will seek a good article not all fast players. He met officials in city and secured a line on several good men.
White pitched well for Chicago, but a Tannehill error in the first inning spared St. Louis a shutout. Chicago scored in the third on three singles and a sac bunt, added another in the eighth on Callahan’s double and Wallace’s error. Attendance 4,800. Detroit game postponed due to Sunday ball ban. Detroit-Cleveland to be rescheduled.
Mrs. Henry Glover, living in Chicago since spring, shot herself in the breast after losing a large sum at the race tracks. Two shots, near the heart, believed fatal. Formerly Miss Marie Gordon of Montgomery.
Fall River reports limited mill shutdowns with 750000 spindles idle and 100000 pieces cut weekly, affecting 12 corporations and 16 mills. Wages save about 50000 weekly while dividends rose to 300000 in the last quarter. Future profits rely on cotton costs. a 3000 bale purchase by the iron works signals no drastic cuts planned.
Chicago centennial preparations progress with $5,000 in subscriptions and a $100,000 goal by Sept. 1. Industrial parade plans grow, clubwomen to oversee women’s entertainment, and Daughters of the American Revolution hosting a reception. Old settlers’ committee aims for pioneer reunions at reconstructed Fort Dearborn during jubilee week. In Lebanon Indiana, Gas Belt circuit races open Tuesday with $400 purses for trots and paces. In San Francisco, Jeffries Corbett fight hype grows as seats sell out and betting widens.
Lancaster scene: Mrs. Edgar H Frantz slain in bed by husband a drug clerk after two gunshots and morphine ingestion. A note says they planned to die together. jealousy is blamed. The wife, 19, had planned a visit west with her mother, opposed by Frantz who had threatened her before. Frantz died that night, found by his father. In Springfield, Charles Grogreski, a Bushnell miner, murdered on the road. Frank Rich, a boarder, arrested as a suspect after coroner’s jury recommends holding for grand jury. A bullet size match is cited between Grogreski’s wound and Rich’s revolver.
A New York commentary notes widespread concern over ongoing financial distress and potential ripple failures. It cites Norcross as a major contractor in trouble, links labor disputes to its collapse, and warns that protracted strikes and high costs threaten credit across contractors and builders nationwide.
Laredo Texas August 9 The quarantine set against San Luis Potosi Mexico a week ago after a yellow fever case is being rigorously enforced Citizens of San Luis Potosi deny the disease exists there and have sent a petition to US authorities at Washington asking that the quarantine be lifted or eased.
Pall Mall Gazette recalls a two inch circle of plant fibers called a soul catcher once feared across Manahiki. It was used as a weapon to threaten or kill enemies in pre Christian times, with the island now noted for education, copra, and pearl shell diving.
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