Redook Take First Game of Crucial Series
Boston defeats Cleveland 2 to 0 to seize a two game lead with 11 to play as Coveleskie yields two hits. Strunk and Melnnis drive in runs in the third inning, followed by Ruth scoring on a throwout.
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Cubs 2 Braves 0 as Martin holds and Merkle’s triple leads
Chicago wins 2-0 at home, Martin strong on the mound. Merkle hits a triple and Deal scores to plate both runs. Crandall homers? Crandall and Wilson behind Martin as Chicago shuts out the Braves. Giants, Pirates split doubleheader. New York wins second game 2-1. Philadelphia tops St Louis 2-0. Cincinnati overwhelms Brooklyn 9-4 in the third game of the series.
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St. Louis
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Tuere
Brack
Iawa City High School Life Team Grant National Title
The Iawa City high school life team earned a national championship for 1918 but may lose the honors of tournament No 2 after competitors protested alleged rule violations for using too many targets. The event drew 150 entrants in the women’s western golf tournament near Chicago. Directum J won the Belmont 2 05 pace at Poughkeepsie in straight heats with 2 04 ¾ and 2 05 ½ in the heats. Norwegian all round champion John Hellum arrived and won the pentathlon at the Metropolitan AAU meet in New York with 11 points and beat 1 rivals.
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Associated Press
Chicago
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Indian Hill
Directum J
Poughkeepsie
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Jonn Hellum
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New York
Great Lakes Navy Sets Eyes On National Track Title
Coach Frank Marceau of the Great Lakes naval training station heads a strong track team aiming to lift the National A A U title from Chicago Athletic Association. The 1918 games unfold at the new Great Lakes field with a quarter mile straight and an oval. Senior events on Sept 21, juniors Sept 20, allrounds Sept 23. Star sailors include Andy Ward and Ed Knourek, with Loren Murchinson, Daan Leffler, Earl Gilfillan among others. Marceau to run middle distances. calls for hundreds of volunteers forthcoming.
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Chicago Athletic Association
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Andy Ward
Ed Knourek
Loren Murchinson
St. Louis
Daan Leffler
Western A. A. U. Hurdie
Baseball World Series plans loom in Cincinnati meeting
With R B Johnson and John Heydler arriving, a National Baseball Commission session is expected to fix World Series conduct. Officials anticipate a September 4 start, and reports say draft boards will not interfere with Chicago and Boston players during the series.
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Gincinnati
R. B.johnson
American League
John Heydler
National League
National Baseball Commission
U Herrmiann
Chicago
Boston
The Great War Era Football Hope Amid Wartime Doubts
Chicago sports leaders debate continuing college football during wartime. A. A. Stagg asserts Big Ten schedules proceed, citing draft camps and limited disruption, with top teams like Illinois Michigan Ohio State WisconsinIndiana Purdue Northwestern and Iowa set to clash. The piece notes reduced play quality due to many players leaving for service and mentions campus training camps and altered schedules.
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Lane Biper Lee
They Do Things See Different in Brandon Card
A humorous Bran don letter from a wary admirer titled A Silly Friend Who Is Afraid of Being an Old Maid is found at the office. It urges Honey to call and claim the missive amid late summer fashion chatter and a joke on Pechana’s post as Brazil’s foreign affairs minister.
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Baseball players may stay in city under war work order
Chicago August 20. Local National League players affected by the work or fight order need not leave the city after September 1. A stockyards fire offers that any or all can shoo livestock from cars and runways and perform other war work. Players will also have Saturdays and Sundays off to play on the company's baseball team.
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Toe Stecher in Navy May Meet Strangler Lewis
Joe Stecher of Dodge Neb former world wrestling champion arrived at Great Lakes naval training station and is rated seaman second class. Authorities seek a match with Ed Strangler Lewis at Camp Grant after their five hour first encounter without a fall.
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Joe Stecher
Dodge
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Stecher
Ed “Strangler
Lewis
Camp Grant
A Trifle Shy at the Coal Yard Foreman Harassed by Labor Shortage
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune item depicts a foreman at a coal yard shouting for a worker. A loafer at the gate asks about the work and responds that he can do anything with a es and would take a slice of bacon for it.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
THINGS THEATRICAL HERE AT HOME AT PLAZA AND CRYSTAL
The Plaza screens The Reason Why directed by Robert Vignola starring Clara Young and features social intrigue through a widow and a noted Elinor Glyn hero. At Crystal Louise Glaum stars in An Alien Enemy with a strong supporting cast. The Palace presents The Man Without a Country starring Florence La Badie as a Red Cross nurse who inspires patriotism.
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Robert G. Vignola
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Elinor Glyn
Miss Young
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Louise Glaum
Crystal Theatre
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Thanhouser
Jewell Productions, Inc
Palace Theatre
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Red Cross
Columbia
Liberty
The Palace Presents Ill Fated Philip Nolan Cast
A brief note on the stage portrayal of Philip Nolan with Miss La Badie and Mr. Herbert in an excellent ensemble at The Palace.
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the Palace
Mathewson to Return to Mound in Cincinnati Rally
Cincinnati reports Christy Mathewson, the Old Master, will return to the mound for the September 1 and 2 NL park closing events. Doubleheaders with St. Louis are planned, with patriotic speeches and music, as August Herrmann pushes a grand farewell.
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Christy Mathewson
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La Porte City News Highlights Social and Personal Notices
Aug 20 report notes Mrs. Mar Mier of Tacoma dies at home Friday. Oliver Miller, two children, and extended family mourn, with several relatives traveling to Tacoma for funeral. Local movements include Linsey Mahood at Camp Cody and overseas duty, presbyterian group knitting, and residents John Goon purchasing Showers residence. Several clergy and visitors, including Reverend Hammond, Gammons party, and Miss Catharine Mears, are mentioned along with travels to Independence, Winnepeg, Real Heights, and Waterloo.
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la Porte
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L. S. Hammond
Independence
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Alice Jervis
Vinton
Bicket
Das Moines
Dan Hummel
Geo. I. Kennedy
Waterloo
Margaret Atine
iGrundy County Boy Burned by Mustard Gas
Grundy Center Iowa Aug 20 message from France reports Ben Allgoud on the firing line gassed by mustard gas with lungs severely burned. Also notes attorney C F Togers attended a lawyer convention in Cape and visited son Lieut Robert Rogers at Fort Sheridan. Other items include oats yields on H W Henning farm, hog sales by Sharp & Lister, Henry Cassebarth to Jefferson Ind for government repair work at £89 monthly, a cattle loss near the tracks, and local real estate transfers and business notices.
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Henry Cassebarth
Jefferson
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Fulton to Thresh Wheat Across Midwest for 10 Weeks
Milwaukee reports Fred Fulton 18, the second victim of Jack Dempsey, joins manager Mike Collins to purchase a threshing outfit. They will lead a five man crew to thresh wheat in Minnesota and Dakota for ten weeks with Fulton handling straw pile work.
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Fred Fulton
Jack Dempsey
Mike Collins
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