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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1913
Page
8
Mobile beat Atlanta 6 to 2 as seven errors by Atlanta aided the visitors. Cavet and Bisland starred for Atlanta with Cavet strong on the mound, Welch\nand Alperman hitting well. Box score shows Mobile 12 hits to Atlanta 9, with controversial plays and miscues shaping the game.
Baseball scores from Southern League and major leagues show Montgomery, Nashville, Birmingham, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis results. Key outcomes include Montgomery 9 11 1, Nashville 3 6 0, Birmingham 3 6 2, and New York 39 0 in a multi-league roundup.
In Cleveland on July 11 Associated Press reports veteran reinsman Pop Geers won the Grand Circuit 2:16 trot and the 2:15 tro, completing a sweep with Marigold Rodney driving. Stetbrino Lad claimed the 2:10 trot event as the largest Ohio stake field to date contested. Marigold won heat one, with Tommy Horn as a favorite, and again in heats two and three. Bertha Carey, driven by Geers, crossed the wire as a winner amid cheering crowds.
Jack Johnson the prize fighter and his wife and nephew arrived in Paris from the United States via Montreal. He plans Paris as his headquarters and says he will not fight in America again, arranging bouts in Europe in the autumn. He will appeal the Leavenworth sentence under the white slave act and hopes a favorable court ruling. French authorities have not decided on his status.
Sixteen members of the Cleveland Baseball Club joined the Baseball Players' Fraternity yesterday, giving the fraternity representation in every club of the two major leagues and a membership exceeding 400. Louisville and Nashville announce an excursion to New Orleans on Sunday July 3. Round trip fare advertised.
Hartford resident Burton E Baker, inventor of an X ray tube, died at his Imlay street home after illness since last September. Nine surgical operations in Philadelphia New York and Hartford failed to save him. Bakers work drew surgeons from Penn University and New York. radium treatment and London consultations were tried. Born August 19 1870 in New Britain Conn he had no formal higher education but attracted many physicians and educators to his research.
Montgomery July 11 The Woodward Iron Company will obtain clear title from the state to 160 acres in Jefferson county. The state once held a claim on the land but a trade valued at 40 dollars per acre will exchange land for bomb proof title. Papers are being drawn up and the transaction was announced by State Superintendent H. J. Willingham.
In Nottingham on July 11 weather improved for the doubles match in the U S Germany semi final of the Dwight F Davis Cup preliminaries. Maurice E McLaughlin of San Francisco and Harold H Hackett of New York were set to face Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe and Heinrich Kleinschroth, with experts betting on the Germans to have a solid chance, though the American team appeared favored to win the series.
Jacksonville Fla July 11 C S Wison a real estate dealer and W Ellison a merchant were drowned when their row boat capsized on Trout creek. Families who accompanied them saw the accident but could not help. Both bodies were recovered.
Miss Mary B. Merritt of Gainesville Georgia is named teacher of German and French and Latin assistant at Florence Normal School by Dr James P Powers president. Florence officials ratified the appointment in a capitol meeting as Louisville and Nashville excursion to New Orleans on Sunday July 13 priced at 2 50 round trip.
Baseball scores across Southern, National, American Leagues and minors show Mobile and Nashville victors, Atlanta and New Orleans edged, Montgomery strong, Chicago nets win, Cleveland and St Louis tally, and Texas League results with Houston, Dallas, Galveston, and Fort Worth games. No further fixtures listed.
Pittsburg 2 Indianapolis 5 in one game and Chicago 6 Kansas City 4, Cleveland 3 St Louis 2 in the same set of results show a tight race with multiple teams recording wins and losses. The details highlight ongoing competition among Federal League clubs.
Charleston outscored Savannah 6 to 3 while Columbus edged Savannah 8 to 4 in the same South Atlantic League update.
Bristol defeated Middleboro 4 to 2 while Knoxville beat Johnson City 6 to 3 Morristown won 8 to 3 against Rome in Appalachian League action.
Southern League games include Mobile visiting Atlanta and New Orleans at Nashville with Memphis at Birmingham. In the National League, St Louis visits Boston and Cincinnati plays Brooklyn, while Chicago hosts New York and Pittsburgh meets Philadelphia. Other matchups feature New York at Chicago and Boston at St. Louis. Meridian faces Selma and Columbus plays Clarksdale with Jackson in Pensacola.
National League President Thomas J. Lynch dismissed Chicago’s protest over the July 6 game in Chicago. Umpire Eason forfeited for deliberate delay, upheld as justified. Lynch ordered umpires to avoid agreements to stop play for trains unless essential to reach the next scheduled point.
In Atlanta on July 11 the Mobile Atlanta series enters its second game. Manager Smith plans Conzelman as pitcher with Dunn catching to topple the league leaders. Mobile's battery features Hogg and Schmidt as threatening weather looms.
Chattanooga and Montgomery resume their series with the second game slated for this afternoon. The matchup follows an earlier contest in the series as teams vie for advantage.
At a New York Canoe Club meeting Leo Friede of the Manhattan Canoe Club was chosen to defend the International Cup against Canadian challenger Ralph B. Britton. The race starts and finishes off the Marine and Field Club at Bath Beach with the first heat at 2 30 this afternoon if weather allows.
In Birmingham on July 11 the team hopes for a second consecutive win over visitors. Probable battery choices include Birmingham with Prough and Clifton while Memphis may match Parsons or Merritt with Snell.
Nashville and New Orleans meet for the second game of the series this afternoon. Redding or Brackenridge will pitch for Nashville while Brenton and Adams are expected as New Orleans' battery. Local showers are predicted.
John J Farrell of the Nasional Association of Professional Baseball Contacts announced decisions on claims. Edens versus Durant awarded five days salary. Neely versus Nashville awarded. Coyle versus Hinton awarded and paid. Anderson versus Knoxville, Tennessee, disallowed.
Brooklyn's drive for a pennant faltered as the club lost seven straight games, slipping from first place in the National League to the second division by a razor thin margin. Pittsburgh stood level in percentage but Brooklyn edged behind by .0003 in the standings.
Mobile drops game as five of six runs come on errors with Hogg scheduled to pitch in Friday’s matchup against the Crackers. Paulet and Campbell go hitless, Robertson struggles at the plate, and Gibson adds a triple for the Sox in a weather interrupted contest.
The article notes a Giants pitcher delivering a Mathewson style game against Brooklyn with few walks and one misstep harming a batter. It also mentions Rube Foster dominating the St. Louis Browns, Willie Pierre’s batting for Valdosta, Hub Perdue’s mound duel with Harmon, and a Federal League doubleheader in Indianapolis with similar scores 2-5 and 5-2.
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