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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1914
Page
6
Fragmented OCR text mentions Eglebeak and teaseriner curve in 3R6 Acre and various garbled phrases. No coherent event, person, or organization is clearly identifiable.
Atlanta outslugged Mobile 13 to 6 at home. Kirby hit a long fourth inning home run and Mobile benefited from late rallies including four ninth inning runs. Hogg started for Mobile, Kirby relieved and sparking the visitors with the decisive blows.
Miss Lillian L. Hyde of South Shore Long Island won the gold medal in the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association Championship qualifying round at Essex County Country Club with a score of 89. She led Miss Georgianna Bishop of Brooklawn Conn by one stroke and was twelve ahead of Miss Marion Hollins of Westbrook the current title holder. Sixteen qualify for the championship rounds through the rest of the week.
President Callaway announced the purchase of catcher Jack Enzenroth from the St. Louis Browns, with discussions to close the deal quickly. Tyree of the Chicago Cubs is also acquired, after a strong Illinois Missouri League season. The Crackers plan more additions and may send Pitcher Jack Bird back to Roanoke while Efird shows potential but struggles early.
Southern League games include Mobile at Atlanta Birmingham at Memphis Montgomery at New Orleans. National League matchups feature New York at Boston Philadelphia at Brooklyn St Louis at Pittsburg Chicago at Cincinnati. American League games list Detroit at Washington St Louis at Philadelphia Chicago at New York Cleveland at Boston.
Scores from Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburg St Louis Washington New York Boston Philadelphia Baltimore Brooklyn Buffalo Indianapolis Kansas City and more included. The report lists pitchers and game outcomes with runs hits and errors for each matchup across leagues.
Chattanooga hammered two New Orleans pitchers in a 8 to 4 win as Balenti broke a leg sliding into second and is likely out for the summer. Weaver Wilson Higgins and Reisig Graham worked for New Orleans. In Nashville, Montgomery used a ninth inning rally to beat Nashville 8 to 4 as Lively Black Donohue Kroh and Gibson held the Riders scoreless in the final frames.
Birmingham won 4 to 1 over Memphis as Goulait struggled. Coyle homered in four trips, driving in two runs, while Ellam starred in the field. Final line shows Birmingham 4, Memphis 1 with notable batting by Coyle and solid fielding by Ellam.
Freddie Welsh defeated Joe Mandot of New Orleans by outpointing him over ten rounds in New Orleans. Welsh won five rounds to Mandot's three with two even rounds, in a results report from the Associated Press.
St Paul defeated Columbus 12 to 11 and Cleveland beat Milwaukee 5 to 4. Indianapolis won 6 to 5 against Kansas City in 13 innings. Minneapolis edged Louisville 3 to 2.
Rochester beat Montreal 9 to 6 while Buffalo routed Toronto 9 to 0. In the second Buffalo Toronto game, rein is noted but details are incomplete.
Allen Wardle of Memphis and Irving Wright of Boston compete today in New Orleans at the Southern championship singles with the winner earning a place against Henry Bruns. Doubles draws feature multiple New Orleans pairs and Memphis teams in a tense field.
Old advertising blurb touts Dr King s New Life Pills for regular bowels and healthy digestion. It claims relief for the stomach liver and kidneys and promises a clearer complexion by flushing wastes. A Chicago reader testimonial is included and price is 25 cents at the druggist.
Cornell varsity and freshman eights, after recent wins over Princeton and Yale, arrived in Cambridge to face Harvard on the Charles River. Practice sessions indicated the Ithacan rowers are in good condition ahead of today’s race.
Sam Langford the negro heavyweight floored Bill Watkins of Nashville in the fourth round of a ten round Rochester bout on May 25. Langford secured the knockout as the crowd watched intently at the venue.
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