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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1917
Page
7
A vintage advertisement promotes S. S. S. as an oldest blood medicine that purifies blood to cure eczema and skin eruptions. It claims fifty years of sales and invites readers to write for advice to Swift Specific Co. Atlanta Ga.
National League doubleheader notes show Philadelphia at Gate stadium and New York at Cincinnati with Boston at Pittsburgh Brooklyn at St Louis all on deck. American League includes Detroit at New York and Chicago at Philadelphia amid rain and cloudy conditions in St Louis Washington and Boston.
Little Rock plays Mobile in cloudy conditions while Nashville visits Birmingham in clear weather. Chattanooga meets Atlanta under cloudy skies. Memphis travels to New Orleans with two clear conditions noted.
In Philadelphia the Phillies beat the Indians 5 to 4. The Chicago Cubs fell to the Boston Red Sox 7 to 1 in Boston. The Detroit Tigers lost to the Washington Senators 4 to 0. The St. Louis Browns defeated the New York Yankees 8 to 0 in New York.
Brooklyn loses to Cincinnati 2 to 6 while New York defeats Pittsburgh 3 to 7. Philadelphia shuts out St. Louis 6 to 0. Chicago edges Boston 6 to 4 in a 4-4 draw referenced as noted.
American Association results show Milwaukee 3 over Minneapolis 2. Kansas City 2 over St. Paul 0. Louisville 10 defeating Toledo 2. Indianapolis 2 losing to Columbus 3.
In Birmingham Birmingham 3 Nashville 6 at Birmingham, Nashville leads 5 0. At Atlanta Atlanta 4 Chattanooga 2. Other games postponed due to rain.
In Buffalo Buffalo 1 Rochester 6 and Toronto 5 Montreal 10 results show Rochester and Montreal winning by large margins. Baltimore 3 Newark 0 and Richmond 4 Providence 1 finish with clear victors.
Boston greeted the royal Belgian mission led by Baron Méncheur on its third anniversary of Germanys invasion. The itinerary included the State House, Bunker Hill Monument, Lexington and Concord, Emersons home, Harvard, Boston College, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Public Library, a Faneuil Hall reception, and a Boston Common demonstration. Tonights fights feature Marty Cross vs Badoud, Andre Anderson vs Norfolk, and Bob Devere vs Bill Brennan in regional venues.
New York Angatah Ail notes intercollegiate rowing has faded this summer as major river derbies on the Hudson and in New London did not draw spectators. The piece marks intercollegiate rowing as the oldest American college sport born on the 1852 Yale Harvard race at Lake Winnipesaukee and lists prominent programs including Harvard Yale Cornell Princeton Penn State Annapolis Syracuse Columbia Wisconsin Stanford California and Washington.
Oslo reports Norway celebrates King Haakon's forty fifth birthday with strong public enthusiasm in Christiania and other cities. Observers note the king's peace policy aided Norway by keeping the country out of war amid European conflict and strengthening bonds with Sweden and Denmark.
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