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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1914
Page
7
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The Louisville and Nashville baseball excursion to Birmingham will depart Mobile on April 13 at 7 30 am and return April 15. Round trip fare is 3 60 with a longer option at 4 50 for travel on the special train and valid on regular trains through April 16, 3 25 pm Birmingham departure.
The National Commission ruled in the George Young case that Charleston club’s Feb tender canceled its right to Young’s services and grants him liberty to sign with any club he elects. Young, a catcher, was released by Cleveland to Toledo and later expected to be leased to another league before a contract was finally issued.
Montgomery county expects a record registration this year as the registrars open Friday and Saturday. Officials estimate about a thousand people will register, driven by intensified campaigning and the desire to vote in the upcoming primary.
The Aero Club of America announced a late June to early July international race from New York City to Bermuda around the island to Atlantic City and on to Washington or Charleston. Prizes exceed 25 000 dollars, with potential doubling. Robert H. Sexton reported Bermuda committees will organize the Bermuda leg.
Chicago National League club shut out Evansville Central League team 10 to 0 in Evansville. Box shows Cubs tallied ten runs on nine hits with Evansville scoring none. Pitchers Zabel and Hargraves starred for Chicago while Framboltz Secker and Hauser appeared for Evansville.
Southern edged West Alabama Agricultural School 2 to 1 in ten innings in Greensboro. Locke struck out thirteen for Southern and allowed one hit, while Durroh fanned sixteen for Hamilton but gave up six safeties. Hamilton tied the score in the ninth on an error before McGehee provided the decisive run.
Memphis Southern league pitchers Liebhardt and Steele held Cincinnati regulars to four hits in a 4 0 win. Rowen started for Cincinnati and was hit hard in three innings, with all runs scoring during his time on the mound.
In Macon Georgia on March 41 the Boston National League team beat the Atlanta Southern Association club 1 0. The lone run came in the fourth when Deal doubled and scored on Gowdy two base hit. Gowdy Rudolph Browning Perryman Dunn contributed.
In Lebanon Tennessee on March 21 the Nashville Southern Association team defeated the University of Cumberland baseball team 5 to 0. The box score shows Nashville with strength in pitching and defense, while Cumberland struggled to score throughout the game. The report notes several players and mentions a general mood about humor in American life.
The Jockey Club announced the Futurity, America's premier two year old race, will be held at Saratoga this August. The purse reaches 5000 dollars, funded by 2500 dollars from the owners' fund and 2500 dollars guaranteed by the Saratoga Racing Association.
Chicago March 31 The committee of women tied to Mrs Potter Palmer discussed a spooning parlor to raise about 100000 from souvenir sales at the 1893 exposition. The decision aims to spend the funds for the benefit of women and children.
The Maryland House of Delegates passed a joint resolution to declare April 18 a half holiday in Baltimore to honor the opening of the Federal League baseball club. The measure is expected to face little opposition in the Senate.
A foreign attachment in a suit in assumpsit against Exposition Park Association, owners of the Pittsburg Federal League baseball club, was entered in local courts. Charles H. McSwigan claims the association owes him 8460 for salary and stock sales commissions. Garnishees include three local banks and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Sheriff ordered to attach leasehold, the Federal League franchise, and all personal property in the hands of the garnishees. Bail to dissolve the attachment fixed at 6920.
New Orleans March 31 Manager Dobbs of the New Orleans Southern Association announces the release of Pitcher Greg Hill and Outfielder Edmondson. Hill becomes a free agent while Edmondson goes to the Beaumont club of the Texas league.
Chicago reports that pitcher Clarence Smith was sold by the Chicago Americans to the Venice Club of the Pacific Coast League. Smith joined the White Sox last spring from the Birmingham Arm club in the Southern League.
Representatives of the Business Men's League of St. Louis departed for a three months tour of South America to strengthen trade relations. The delegation will visit major cities in Brazil Argentina and Chile to advance commercial interests of the city.
Gene Delmont of Memphis knocked out Frankie Manilla of Oklahoma City in the second round. Ringside announced Delmont would meet featherweight champion Johnny Kilbane in an eight round no decision bout next Monday night in Memphis.
Arthur Sinnot of New Orleans defeated Young Sinnot of Rock Island in a ten round bantamweight no decision. Simmons swept the fourth to sixth and the ninth and tenth rounds while Sinnot was groggy in the ninth. The first two rounds went to Binnet, with the third, seventh and eighth even.
Fred Blanding and George Kahler, pitchers named in Federal League injunctions, traveled from Athens to Cleveland for talks with attorneys and then moved on to Atlanta to rejoin the Cleveland Americans.
Niles, state champion, defeats H. W. Johnson in the final at Longwood Cricket Club on covered courts. The scoreline reads 6 3, 7 5, 6 2 after a field of top East players.
Three players tied at 77 in the opening qualifying round of the United North and South Amateur Championship at Pinehurst North Carolina. Travis of Garden City Beach Hills and Robeston of Pawling School joined Worthington of Delaware with 78 and Laxton of Ny recorded 79 for the top scores on day one.
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