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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1901
Page
15
In a Western Association game Indianapolis beat Fort Wayne 7 to 5 as Stimmel pitched well despite early control issues. Mullen struggled for Fort Wayne, while Indy capitalized on key hits and errors, pulling ahead after the fourth inning and holding on for the victory.
Independent teams of Muncie and Dayton met on the local grounds. Zook’s pitching dominated the visitors, allowing scoring only in one inning via a double and two singles that produced three runs. Final score shows Muncie five runs to Dayton four. Batteries: Zook and Henderson for Muncie, Williman and Keoke for Dayton.
The Hoosiers racked up five sacrifice hits while Summer fanned four times. Fort Wayne’s Nattress matched the strikeout pace as Wheeling looms next Tuesday at Washington Park. Indianapolis and Fort Wayne played at the latter city today then return home tomorrow to close the first series. The third Silent Hoosiers swept two yesterday, 18 to 13 over the Meridians, then 15 to 1 over the Young Bases. Fox’s improving speed and Hogriever’s second-base incident stirred the crowd. The Century nine toppled the Young Hoosiers 23 to 17 in five innings as Lee’s Brunswick turned a double play. Fort Wayne enjoyed odd luck in the final innings, Heydon’s grounder hitting Mullen’s shin and Thorn ton aiding the play, with Nattress again patrolling second on Hoghever’s steal attempt.
Pittsburg workers at the Tannehill plant staged a in house event featuring team leaders Wiltz Zimmer Kitson and McGuire to mark the 87th battery assembly milestone.
Washington defeated Chicago thanks to superior hitting and pitching. Mercer fouled a ball and injured himself, retiring from the game after a fall into the right field fence. Quinn made a sensational stop on a hot grounder as Lee and Grady teamed with Patterson and Sullivan in the battery.
In a Chicago to Michigan City contest, F A Price’s sloop Vencedor finished first, beating Josephine by a quarter hour. Vencedor won the Michigan City challenge cup by twenty seconds on corrected time, with Josephine second and Valiant third. Other finishers were Siren, Nomad, Columbia, and Katie H.
Baltimore hosts Philadelphia in a pitching duel with Yeager blanking Detroit until late and Plank strong for Philadelphia. Detroit’s bats stumble as scores show a tight battle. Also reports Rockford, Davenport, Cedar Rapids, and other cities reflecting scattered games and line scores across the circuit. Purdue defeats Illinois in a well played game at Lafayette.
President Leland Hathaway of the National Fox Hunters Association held a Lexington Ky meeting with the executive board to choose Estill Springs Ky as the site for the next annual hunt on November 1. The Commoner sold for 15000 dollars to Gen. W H Jackson of the Belle Meade stud Tennessee after previously changing hands at Lexington last fall for 5025 dollars. Miss Bessie Moore and Miss Marion Jones, former American lawn tennis champions, played the King's County Tennis Club open in Brooklyn with Moore winning in three sets 6 3 10 8 1 2. University of Pennsylvania crew sails for Liverpool to compete in the Heary regatta July 3 to 6, with fifteen eight varsity rowers, coxswain, two substitutes, Eliis Ward coach and Reginald Hart manager. The trip costs over 35000 dollars, raised largely by undergraduates.
Utica N Y June Miss Queene Ferry daughter of D M Ferry Detroit and Avery Conley Chicago married today at the Ferry summer home near Sid Lake Sid N Y. The elaborate ceremony drew nearly two hundred guests from distant cities as part of the celebration.
At Gravesend New York on June 8 John E Madden’s Blue Girl won the Great American Stakes for two-year-olds at five furlongs, holding off Nasturtium of the favorites with Major Dangerfield in third. The Parader won the Broadway stakes as odds-on favorite, while other races across Chicago Cincinnati St Louis featured mishaps and close finishes with notable names like Nasturtium and The Parader.
In Oakland events, favorites faltered while well ridden horses shined. Jockey Gutierrez remained unconscious with serious injuries after a mishap in the two year old race yesterday. Winners listed: Torsida Rio Deastar Escalante Rathton Good Hope Jim McCleevy.
A New York Press column mocks the lifting of skirts and urges proper education for women in modest attire. It recalls Miss Margery Dan and old Tip guiding women to button up, praising previous victories and proposing button marks to aid graceful elevation in public.
In a Brooklyn library a young man asks for Shakespeare in prose and frowns on the plotting format while an imperious clubwoman presses for the season’s top read. The information clerk lists popular titles as the woman exclaims over mass readership and finishes with a puzzled remark.
Visitors witness the harsh routine at a New York dog pound on One Hundred Second Street. Dogs fight, whine, and await their fate while cats rest in separate cages. An officer explains daily catches by day and by disposal, noting deaths, rescues, and occasional adoptions as animals seek homes. The scene ends with a request for a watchdog and the faint hope of rescue.
A French cavalry officer tested about fifty new recruits asking What is the war of ism What is Alsace Lor raine Who is Bismarck and found three fifths unable to answer any question one fifth had vague ideas about Lorraine and Bismarck and a fifth believed misstatements about 18th century wars amid confusion and poor training reported by the Philadelphia Telegraph.
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