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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1913
Page
6
Mobile wins 5 to 1 over Chattanooga as Stock and Starr pace the attack with key hits and timely plays. Robertson stars for Mobile with three hits and two steals while Sommers holds Chattanooga to one run.
The White Sox push to boost the outfield lands Chappelle at a record price, following prior high payments such as $22,500 for O tools and a reported $15,000 cash, with Beall and an unnamed catcher also traded. Chappelle, 21, batted .356 in 81 games this season and hails from McCloskey Iowa.
It is reported that Chicago Nationals president Char Webb Murphy will seek to buy pitcher Pug Cavet from Mobile and Elmer Brown from Montgomery. Detroit may claim Harry Coveski under an option, while Wallop Smith of Atlanta passes due to slow baserunning.
Grand Circuit races in Pittsburg were postponed due to heavy track conditions and showers. An attempt will be made to start the program today with a changed card including the 2:12 trot and 2:24 events, the 2:05 Iron City stakes pace, and the 2:12 pace from Monday plus the 2:09 pace from Tuesday.
Mathewson again proves the same as the past by going 16 wins in 21 starts. Against Cincinnati yesterday he defeated the Reds by pitching seventy balls, tying his own record for fewest pitches in a game.
Ty Cobb star outfielder and champion batsman is suspended by the American League head after a dispute with umpire Hildebrand in the Monday Detroit game. Manager Jennings received a telegram from B. B. Johnson stating Cobb’s suspension for language used during the incident. The controversy arose in the ninth inning when Cobb disputed a ruling on a liner hit by Baker.
Chicago Americans and New York Nationals will undertake a world tour after Charles Comiskey posted a necessary forfeit to secure transport. The squads depart Vancouver November 19 after a coast trip by special train. Six Giants and six White Sox players have committed to the tour. John McGraw guarantees twenty five men for the Giants. Comiskey funds for fifty.
Leon ard King Cole former Chicago National star now with the Columbus Association pitched a no hit game here yesterday defeating Milwaukee 8 to 1. The Columbus club had 11 hits off the opposing pitcher and scored on a pass an error and a sacrifice with Cole striking out four.
Chattanooga manager lists Covaleski Street against Cavet Schmidt for final game of series with Mobile this afternoon. Birmingham aims for third straight win over New Orleans as rain clouds clear. Montgomery and Atlanta duel in rubber three game set with Dobbs picking C Brown versus Thompson. Nashville hosts Memphis in a home finale with Kissinger Seabaugh batteries.
Summary of games across Southern, Cotton States, National, American, South Atlantic, International, Texas, American Association and Appalachian leagues. Notable results include New York over Cincinnati 4-2, Philadelphia 8-2 over St. Louis, Chicago 9-6 over Brooklyn in 11 innings, and rain affecting additional schedules.
A compilation of nineteenth inning box scores and results across multiple parks including Atlanta Birmingham Nashville Detroit St Louis Chicago New York Philadelphia Boston Pittsburgh Cincinnati Brooklyn and more. Key figures include Brown Gribbens Dunn Bagby Angermier Plank Lapp Zamloch Keating Meyers Cheney Bresnahan and Ragan with varied run outputs and game times.
Clarence Griffin and John Strachan, Pacific coast doubles champions, left San Francisco for Omaha to compete in both doubles and singles national clay court tournaments. They will then go to Lake Forest Illinois for the western tournament before national elimination contests to determine challengers to McLoughlin and Bundy. Strachan is seventeen.
G M Cameron owner of the New Haven Eastern Association team and James M Clarkin owner of the Hartford club together with twenty players paid fines and costs totaling nearly $600 for playing in a professional game last Sunday in violation of the law.
Matchups list cities from Chattanooga to Boston with games in Atlanta Memphis New Orleans Birmingham Pittsburg Chicago Cincinnati New York Philadelphia St Louis Detroit Cleveland and more, highlighting a broad regional schedule.
Two games scheduled to feature Pensacola visiting Meridian and Columbus meeting Jackson in a pair of contests. The doubleheaders will determine standings and potential wins for each city and program.
Bob Shawkey, a pitcher in the International league with Baltimore, left New York to join Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics in Chicago. The move comes under an optional agreement made by the Athletics’ manager with Baltimore earlier this season.
Ed Maier president of the Venice Coast League baseball club refused a $200000 sale offer from a syndicate that included John McGraw of the New York National League Club yesterday.
A Mobile fan blasts Mike Finn for criticizing Mobile's finances and lack of pitcher purchases. The letter asserts 1913 attendance surpassed 1912, praises Mobile’s drawing power, notes no postponed games, and accuses Finn of bias and poor judgment in the line of Gulf coverage.
In Vernon Arena, Kid Williams of Baltimore won the decision over Charles Ledoux of Paris in the sixteenth round. Ledoux claimed a foul and knee injury, but the referee raised Williams’s hand as the bout ended amid fierce milling and mixed form from both fighters.
Johnny Dundee a lightweight who moved up to lightweight was matched to fight Freddie Welsh British champion twenty rounds at Vernon either August 15 or September 9. Welsh wired from Edmonton accepting terms.
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