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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1911
Page
4
Washington finally won 4 to 2 in fourteen innings against Fairfield. Lucas pitched all fourteen for Washington while Reardon started for Fairfield. Key hits included Wallenbeck three base hit and McNeally two base hits and a home run.
The game featured seven Fairfield hits and strong pitching by Reardon for Fairfield. Washington suffered injuries including Freeland and Thompson with sprained ankles, leaving both sides crippled but delivering a high class exhibition. Washington connected a two run homer in the third as McNeally blasted a ball for a homer, while Fairfield tied it in the ninth on a single by Reardon and a three base hit.
The report describes a tight game with back and forth action as Leverich preserves a Washington lead in the fourteenth inning. Woods and Howard produce promising contact, with a long fly ball that nearly changes the score, while Leverich again showcases his fielding anticipation amid a noisy crowd from Fairfield.
August Clondeaux his wife and two dozen children abandon the Pittsburg baseball club to return to Belgium. Honus Wagner is a hero of the group who hosted a banquet and wore Wagner buttons. The family plans to play baseball on a Belgium farm and take bats and balls with them.
Incomplete report shows teams tied at 0 after 6 innings with Washington and Cedar Rapids Crescenta battling for lead and context unclear due to missing details.
Secretary C W Southwell of the baseball association announces three home games next week. On Tuesday the Arizona famous cowboy team performs with broncho busting and a big band. What Cheer semi pro team comes Thursday and Friday June 29 and 30, with plans for a second Cedar Rapids Crescents gate tomorrow.
Baseball results list games across Chicago New York Boston London Brooklyn and Cincinnati. Players Pillsbury Moers Kling Moerser Marquard Adams Gibson Toney Wre kn and Moran appear in scorelines with runs and pitchers noted.
Reading lists show multiple college and team matchups with scores and players. The fragments mention Detroit games, St Louis events, and players such as Mitchel, Harper, and Clarke across various matchups with scattered numbers.
The account recalls a Chicago Cubs exhibition game in New York where Heine Zimmerman and Jimmie Slagle produced a remarkable double play and a series of plucky defensive feats. Zimmerman's fielding, a crazy bounce, and Slagle's left handed throw frame a dramatic seventh inning as observers marvelled at their feats.
Dr Charles K O Brown will give four free lectures at the Methodist church tomorrow evening on the subject Japan He has spent years in California and travels in Japan and China and will share insights from his studies The talks are free and aim to inform with enjoyable and instructive content based on his experiences in the region
Vienna's first tag day led by Archduchess Maria Josefa to aid poor and homeless children succeeded. The event borrowed from America but used an artificial flower and labeled the collection a flower festival. Six thousand five hundred girl volunteers toured districts with men to display rose hedges for sale in streets stores and theaters.
An Old Maine Dear Trap. Bates of Oakland has a bear trap made by a Lubee blacksmith in .87 to catch bears. The trap has two large springs, one on each side of the jaws, with five teeth on one side and six on the other. Jaws open 12 by 14 inches. Lewiston on road.
An advertisement claims deafness results from a catarrhal condition of the Eustachian tube and offers $100 for any deafness caused by catarrh that Hall Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It urges readers to request free circulars and promotes Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Topeka June 21 With 6000 more men en route Kansas calls for wheat harvest labor. Over 3000 harvesters in the state are college students. Gasoline powered tractors replace horses boosting daily cuts to 75 to 100 acres. The drought hastened ripening and strained farm households with meals for many workers.
Delegates attend the thirteenth triennial International Sunday school convention in San Francisco under the direction of international superintendents. Key speakers include Gov. Johnson, Mayor McCarthy, and Rolla Watt. A tercentenary King James Bible celebration is planned with notable addresses.
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