Players League Founding Draws Baseball Powerbrokers
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York a meeting of the Ball Players Brotherhood formed the Players' National League. Key figures included John Montgomery Ward, Fred Pfef fer, and Edward Hanlon. Notable attendees were Jay Faatz, Michael Kelly, William Ewing, Tony Mulligan, Edward Hanlon, Albert G. Johnson, Daniel Brouthers, Tim Keefe, George Gore, and others, all shaping a privately backed venture with broad insurance of secrecy and strong financial bets on future league success.
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Pfeffer
Han- Want
Jon
Keefe
Gores
Ball Players Brotherhood
Players’ National League
Fifth Avenue Hotel
New York
John Montgomery Ward
Fred Pfeffer
Chicago
Edward Hanlon
Pittsburg
Australia
Europe
al. Spalding
Spalding
Ward
Helen Dauvray
Michael Kelly
Kelly
National League
John
New York City
Jay Faata
Cleveland
Faatz
United States
Prizs
Brotherhood
West
William Ewing
Ewing
Mr. Day
Bowing
Lawrence G. Twichell
Tony
Columbus
Zanesville
Kentucky
Hanlon
Fulton Street
Albany
Albert G. Johnson
Johnson
Ilis
Players’ League
Jonson
New
Euter
Moses
New Baseball
Daniel Brouthers
Boston
Daniel
Detroit
Anak
Wappinger Falls
N. Y
Timothy J. Keefe
Cambridge
Mass
John Ward
C. A
Helm
Helen Dauvray Ward
Marlborough
Keele & Becanyon
Sre
Tedh
George F. Gore
Gore
Wittie Diunoerns
Saccarappa
Isis
The
Edward Crane
Crane
England's Retired Lightweight Joyce Elite Pugilist of London
John Joyce born November 1 1845 in London is a retired England lightweight champion with numerous medals and trophies. He owns a top Paris gym on Rue Geoffrey Mar and backs featherweight champion Fred Johnston for 2500 dollars a side, having defeated rivals including Malone King Burns Monk White and Dore in the 1870s.
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England
John Joyce
London
Joyce
Paris
Geofrey
Mar
Prince Murat
Mr. Abingdon
Fred Johnston
Joyesa
Jerry Malone
George King
Morris Burns
Tommy Monk
Jack White
Marquis of Queensberry
Pudding” Field
Jack Styles
George Dore
Captain Arthur Cummock Heads Harvard Football Team
Arthur J. Cumnock is Harvard's present football captain and regarded as the best in years. A disciplined, cool headed leader, he steers a hard working squad toward first class form and notable athletic prominence.
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Harvard
Arthur J. Cumnock
Mr. Cumnock
Arthur J. Cummock
Cummock
Horses beat world high jump record at Chicago show
Two Canadian bred horses Ontario and Roseberry cleared 6 feet 9 inches to eclipse the previous world mark of 6 feet 9? inches set by Leo and Filemaker at New York last year. Each horse owned by Canadian interests—Ontario by Howland of Mount Morris and Roseberry by Morehouse and Prosper of Toronto—shared the $1,000 prize after midnight on November 7.
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New York
Ex Governor Lounsbury Records Adirondack Bass Catch
Ex Governor Lounsbury of Connecticut owner of Echo Camp on Raquette lake caught the largest black bass ever from the Adirondacks with red and reel. The seven and a quarter pound fish measured twenty one inches long, seven inches thick, and wide at the tail. Reported by the New York Sun.
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Lounsbury
Connecticut
Echo Camp
Raquette Lake
Adirondacks
New York Sun
Omaha Gate City Athletic Club Leaders and Members
Eager to highlight Omaha's Gate City Athletic Club this feature profiles three leading officers and notable athletes. Charles McCormick hosts a strong program with boxing gear, training apparatus, and a 24 foot ring where many contests occur. Members include Jack Davis, Jack Ryan, and John wa GnyeEn, with Kilkenny as manager and Wagner as secretary, the club counting seventy six members.
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Omaha
Gate City
Jack Davis
Colora
Jack Ryan
Northwest
John Wa GnyeEn
P. Clow
CHAS
M’cormick
Charles hicCormick
W. E. Wagner
Spo
Bill
James Kilkenny
New Amateur Records At Western Championship Meetings
Sprinters Carey and Sherrill equaled top marks at Detroit and Travers Island on June 15. Carey tied the best American and English 100 yards. Sherrill matched the world record for 110 yards and set a new 125 yard cross country mark at Fleetwood Park. Pelling surpassed both English and American 200 yards records, while Tin dall and Tindall lowered multiple distances in a sequence of events at different venues. Dohm posted a leading half mile time at Travers Island, and Day set a Staten Island ten mile mark amid English and American standards.
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L. KR. Carey
Detroit
C. H. Sherrill
New York Athletic Club
Yale
Wendell Baker
Cambridge
Mass
Sherrill
Travers Island
Carey
Fleetwood Park
Baker
H. H. Pelling
London
L E. Myers
Pelling
H. C. L. Tindall
L. E B. Myers
L. E. Myers
Boston
W. C. Dohm
New York
Fr. E. Cross
Oxford University
Staten Island
W. D. Day
New Jersey
Athletic Club
E. C. Carter
W. G. George
Sidney Thomas
England
Chess and Checkers Problems and Solutions
Chess problem No 36 by Loyd shows Black eight pieces White seven with White to play and mate in two. Checker problem No 368 by A Cameron has Black seven ten eleven twenty one percent White three nineteen twenty two twenty three Black to play and win. Solutions list multiple moves and captures for chess problem No 25 and checker problem No 35 with Black to play and win sequences and final result Black wins.
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Loyd
A. Cameron
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Beatty Block
Warren, Pa
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Attorneys AT Law
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D.L Ball
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JAS. Cable
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F. W. Whitcomb
Hickory Street
E. D. Preston
High School
A. G. McAlpine
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S. W. Corner
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John Sager
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Golden Horseshoe
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