DOCSLIB.ORG

Winthree of Week-End Games; Tie Series Up! Bees Go Good in Last Three ?T\Thg L {Ingside with the Cameraman at Big New York Fights

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Winthree of Week-End Games; Tie Series Up! Bees Go Good in Last Three ?T\Thg L {Ingside with the Cameraman at Big New York Fights MONDAY, JULY 6, 1925, THE SEATTLE STAR 11 Bees WinThree of Week-End Games; Tie Series Up! Bees Go Good in Last Three ?t\thg_l_{ingside With the Cameraman at Big New York Fights Contests Here Walker and Greb in Furious Mixup; Referee Collapses When Shade Knocked Out Slattery Lucas Loses Tough Game Sunday—Tony Lazarre - Winds Up Great Week PACIFIC COAST LEAGLE Won Lost Yot San Franciseo ~..... €0 " AT BRIt LARS CisoniisiniinB 3 3 Rt 140 48 Angelos ...oovivnee “° Ja33 Neattle Fsdvasssine BT o i3 Portland ........ vans B 1 a 1 5 Uakland ..., as 5 17 Sacramente . 3 M 183 .S R R 3Ly e HOW THE sERIES ENDED Won | Won l.holllo ssiananas 4 1 Salt Lake A Verash ../ ivvy 3 | Loe Angeles ss ' B San § B Francisce .. Oakland savs Pertlang |.. & 1 « |Bacraments ~... GAMES THIS WEEK o Sacramento al Seattle, Salt Lake at Portland. Vernon at Oakland San Franciseo at Los Angeles SAI.T LAKE finally got started against Seattle in the second Rame Saturday, winning handily, and %2, they kept right on winning Sunday, taking the contests, 4.2 and 61, Seattle won the first Saturday same behind the good pitching of Fred Fussell, 4.1 Walker and est by a tally, Mickey Harry Greb fought one of the fast fights on .rccord, going at top speed for 15 rounds, Greb week-end The results gave the The in winning. picture shows them a mixup in the center of the ring. The photo on the left shows Referee teams an even break in the eight Purdy collapsing from a dislocated knee. SamesLUCASplayed.WORKED WELL Fred Lucas pitched tme ball in the first Sunday game for Seattle, How Abe Attell Started in | but sume freak bounces and rather .[.———: In the biggest upset of the big New York ring card held last week Dave Shade wobbly support in the first innnig Won Lost Pet. ~ Sets Record Stopped Jimmy in three rounds. Here we have the picture of the knockout. ¢ gave the Bees a 3.0 jead. the i Slattery For Washington ........... 50 878 six ¢8 2% next innings Lucas blanked the Ring Under Assumed Name Philadalphia ........... BRII DEAN, shortstop of the CRIOEY 3 Bees without hit, The visitors « : isvrsaveiniae 4d 562 '\,ln.\‘mn-: a ~ Goorgetown Merchants, was be. Eihessvtnniss DY 0 AN broke thru for another run In the Detroit 36 " deved to have created n new record Weinert Count in Bout With Wills M. LOows i ciscianinnee AT Taking eighth, Champion’s Father Objected NOW YOIk ...coonoooee.33 ‘" o in Jlocal Semi-pro league circles, when Featherweight i In the meantime Seattle Cleveland ....cvvosnsve 39 AOO was hit. lFormer wos defeating the U. B to 50 '<;.mxn|xmn John Game; Tells of When B i R 334 ting Singleton rather hard, but Boz:mg McCarey Attell, 18, Arizora Sunday, 4 to 1, at the At Washington.. R. H." B, he tightened in the pinches and he Sr., First Saw Abe Box Grounds Dean made 11 as. IOW SOTR 31213 1 il'nl" got breaks s snawes some lucky on hard.hit { Biniy, three putouts and one error, ’ VAR s e hmin balls, The locals finally broke thru {for a total of 15 chunces. By T. J. (Uncle Tom) McCAREY Hatteries—E. Johnson, with two ¢ Jones, H. runs in the ninth, i While Dean was setting his record [ Noted Los Angeles Promoter Whe 1s Revealing “Inside” Stories of His Johnson and Gengough; Zachery and l PONDER PITCHES {breaking pace, Bonju, Georgetown t Career Exclusively for Star Readers Ruel, GOOD BALL | pitcher, was holding the Sailbes to Abe Attell got his start has always seemed to me hits, Ray Willis, besides scor- ~. Eimer Ponder held the Tribe to At Cleveland— R H. B im., ;HOW a run himself a Ing by getting single run and five hits in the second interesting personal story. ORI B “one : an Lsy 9T In Abe's parents .':m'l n triple, knocked another of while his mates piled up wix . were much opposed to boxing.. For CNPBIRNG LTy 0 cgame very {the runs scored Tuns on Dumovich, Miljus and Eatterfes—Thurston, and that Abe had to do his boxing with- Connally i The Bcore In H E. Hasty." reason and Garbowski, Sehalk; Smith U. 2 3 out their so he took another 8. 8. Artzona j 1 Lazerre knowledge, Tony completed a great Myntt, 5 name. I 1 what it | Georgetown y 1 s week, both In the field and at the could remember wish | . Batleries Bletka and Wallace plate, the best was, but doesn’t matter. Even the club At Bt, Louls- R: 8..E, individual perform. it Sonju and Hampol ance tosser i of In a series here BETORIE s2t any which he was did know ko baii wel 1 1 bgfore boxing not | this sedson. his real S Db s i e i FIRST GAME name. LOSES PAIR Batteries Whitehill, Halloway, Sal! Lake— AB. R, H.PO. A E off Abe, under his nom-de-plume, started Wells and Bassler, Buah, Davis, Van BAN FRANCISCO, July 6-The Frederick, If ..... 5 @& & 5 o o YL Gilder and (Thirteen Oaklund Acorns clicked the Bit b s 860 with four or five knockouts. By the time Rego. innings.) league. Connolly, ¢f .4v.s¢ 2 1 1 2 ‘& @ o ———————— topping Bedls for two games here DRDwek o e ¥ Y R six were that he had reached the papers RT ePR L SRR ATR e 2 e winning, 10 to 7 and 7 to lazerre, a 8 ...... 4 1 240800 P‘“— |yumrduy ¢ 5. In the firat Oakland mads Coumbe, 1b ../... 4 1 5 ¢ o beginning to give him some edge. When a game, Xindimore, 2B 6 the first Plcker. .... 3 ‘8 ¢ 3 71 NATIONAL ]| aix runs In Inning, T, ¢ ..divis d 87 0. @ would on make a fea- e B 0 02 show go they would [ing's home run accounting for two e | aimgieton, P t.iiid 00 ) 8 ———-——_———-——J | of the scores, oy, e ture mention of this “Knockout Kid.” Litan m— »4" v Won Lost Pot. Totals ....,..33 4 & 17 18 1 In the second game, the Oaks got N 8 osavsidd UL il is ' w 1 ; Seattieo— AB.R. H. PO, A. B McCAREY away to a fourrun lead but the Now YOrk ..votoveenses 397 XRBA 8 j Of Viiveita 2K e had knocked out a more, Abe's futher began A 3 29 © Bi after he couple 24 in iiiiscivenssos BS A tallied three the next 3 BYOORIFR 4 ' Seals BYEBY, 2B iicicaß D 8 2 @ ;FINAIJ.Y, like all the it at table and got enthusiastic about it, B DA S iit i to the 0 n A8 frame, Two more in the 8 hair 8 0Y LT read | sixth, and CIAIAnRE] 7 of Franclsco. But he knew that littie civsavnscesis S AT g-:m.dred,..cisie @ 1 6«8 !rest of the people San never in the seventh, the Oaks rf. B . 1% gave Philadelpbin .. ...ovooo.. 32 ASL ¢.ccoo ‘unn Herman, 16 4 0 0 10 o 2 ‘Abe this hero the paper was boosting. was Chicago sagssssnsnssn 38 4 A0 ia victory. DRUORIS 3B (o e Y e e Abe’s mother became so enthuslastie that ... ss The old gentleman and on Doston s 2 “ A9 First game: Rl R .Baldwin,#8... 4. 1 3.3 %.® % I wanted to break the news to them, but he totd IR e e i Abe P R several occasions shfaioenseses 40 B to At !O-l(lnnd X 6 0 Baigvin, ¢ .... 83 0 X 1 e best way to have a real surprise for his father was Chicago-- R "B he that the San FYRDCINOO . i,mc .ivsavaso 1 2 Too the Black knocked out ST il 0 | strong for Charley Weinert, Harry Wills, Panther, the New= v enea 000 008 32110 {inyite him to go to the next contest. PRISDUPE <ivi. foinvs 1 Batteries: Kunz, Kaiser and Read; Adonis in the second round. The above picture shows Weinert draped on the floop as he AR iia sk {ark Telals L. Y Yo 18 | Now, as much averse to boxing the old gentleman was, con- i it s nes 1 1 Griffin, Willlams, Geary and Ag- B see “marvel’” the Batteries—Kremer, Morrison and tafter taking one on the chin. £ "Ran for E. Baldwin In uinth. as he was very anxious to this papers were new, Ritchie, | - Beore by innings: t»en!ed. to. Gooch; Bush, Alexander and Hart. t Becond game: R H, . B Salt Lake ......... 30000001 64 zn-ferring nett, with as he knew that he would have T 15 HItS | Abe invited a friend to go them, 4. e.,oeieee 0 ; .oviciesic 40000003 08 [Oakland Feattlo ............ 90600000 32 ito leave the father to go and dress for the contest and wanted to do » San Francisco ........ § 15 0 BHE At .civeecsiine $ 201031038 New York-- .....R. H. E ) Coast Tennilennis no from the old Boehler and \ {in o way that it would cause suspicion gentleman, é Batteries: Read; 004ast Runs responsible for—Lucas 1, Ringle. 3 10 the wonderful Philadelphia ...... ... 0 ton sald that it to be most fight that Griffing and Yelle, Agnew. 2. Struck out-—Lucas § Singleton 3. ; 80 Abe was going ;anrror, : ‘ e NOW JOPR e i Gk i 1 on down the ring Bases balls—Lucas 4, Singleton 7. Hit would ever see. He had the old gentleman right at .‘ S j - by plteher—Lane, by Singleton. ‘he Batteries—Ring, Knight and J. | | Htolen where he could see, bases—Lazerre, Coumbe, Two-base hit-—— j side Wilson; Nehf and Snyder, ~ UP A NOTCH into the Abe had o cap over hix face, 80 he couldn’t =\' O'Doul.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Ernest Hemingway and the Black Sox Scandal
    15 Ernest Hemingway and the Black Sox trial By Sharon Hamilton White Sox criminal trial was nearing its conclusion. The [email protected] Chicago Tribune announced: “Defense Pleas of ‘Black Sox’ to Start Today” and “Case Expected to Reach Jury Wednes- “Cook County what crimes are committed in thy name” day.”3 — Ernest Hemingway, letter to a friend, August 1921 Such events always seem to mark us, the watchers, more profoundly than we expect — a situation I suspect holds es- Things were looking good for aspiring author Ernest pecially true during the idealistic days of our youth. Because Hemingway in the summer of 1921. He had recently be- although we are not directly involved, we have seen these come engaged and on July 21 — his twenty-second birthday athletes run. We have seen what it means for a mere mortal — he wrote excitedly to his close friend to transform into something fluid and Grace Quinlan to gush about his future beautiful on a playing field. Perhaps wife. this is why it is especially when sports “Suppose you want to hear all about heroes are accused of doing something Hadley,” he wrote. He explained that dreadful that we instinctively register his fiancé, Hadley Richardson, was a this as something momentous, as if a great tennis player and the “best pianist Greek myth were being enacted before I ever heard.” He felt she was, all in all, our eyes. “a sort of terribly fine article.” Married What was going to happen? That to her, he believed he would no longer was the question on everybody’s lips.
    [Show full text]
  • Hemingway Gambles and Loses on 1919 World Series
    BLACK SOX SCANDAL Vol. 12, No. 1, June 2020 Research Committee Newsletter Leading off ... What’s in this issue ◆ Pandemic baseball in 1919: Flu mask baseball game... PAGE 1 ◆ New podcast from Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum ........ PAGE 2 ◆ Alias Chick Arnold: Gandil’s wild west early days ..... PAGE 3 ◆ New ESPN documentary shines light on committee work .. PAGE 11 ◆ Hemingway gambles, loses on 1919 World Series ...... PAGE 12 ◆ Photos surface of Abe Attell’s World Series roommate . PAGE 14 ◆ Shano Collins’ long-lost interview with the Boston Post ..... PAGE 15 ◆ George Gorman, lead prosecutor in the Black Sox trial . PAGE 20 ◆ What would it take to fix the 2019 World Series? ..... PAGE 25 John “Beans” Reardon, left, wearing a flu mask underneath his umpire’s mask, ◆ John Heydler takes a trip prepares to call a pitch in a California Winter League game on January 26, 1919, in to Cooperstown ........ PAGE 28 Pasadena, California. During a global influenza pandemic, all players and fans were required by city ordinance to wear facial coverings at all times while outdoors. Chick Gandil and Fred McMullin of the Chicago White Sox were two of the participants; Chairman’s Corner Gandil had the game-winning hit in the 11th inning. (Photo: Author’s collection) By Jacob Pomrenke [email protected] Pandemic baseball in 1919: At its best, the study of histo- ry is not just a recitation of past events. Our shared history can California flu mask game provide important context to help By Jacob Pomrenke of the human desire to carry us better understand ourselves, [email protected] on in the face of horrific trag- by explaining why things hap- edy and of baseball’s place in pened the way they did and how A batter, catcher, and American culture.
    [Show full text]
  • BOXING the BOUNDARIES: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United State, 1882-1913
    BOXING THE BOUNDARIES: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United State, 1882-1913 BY C2010 Jeonguk Kim Submitted to the graduate degree program in American Studies and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy __________________________ Chairperson __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ Date defended: ___July 8__2010_________ The Dissertation Committee for Jeonguk Kim certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: BOXING THE BOUNDARIES: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United States, 1882-1913 Committee: ________________________________ Chairperson ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Date defended: _______________________ ii Abstract Leisure and sports are recently developed research topics. My dissertation illuminates the social meaning of prize fighting between 1882 and 1913 considering interactions between culture and power relations. My dissertation understands prize fighting as a cultural text, structured in conjunction with social relations and power struggles. In so doing, the dissertation details how agents used a sport to construct, reinforce, blur, multiply, and shift social and cultural boundaries for the construction of group identities and how their signifying
    [Show full text]
  • Name: Abe Attell Alias: the Little Hebrew Birth Name: Abraham
    Name: Abe Attell Alias: The Little Hebrew Birth Name: Abraham Washington Attell Born: 1883-02-22 Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA Died: 1970-02-06 (Age:86) Nationality: US American Hometown: San Francisco, California, USA Boxing Record: click Abraham Washington Attell (born February 22, 1884 in San Francisco, California – died February 6, 1970 in New Paltz, New York), better known in the boxingworld as Abe "The Little Hebrew" Attell, was a boxer who became known for his record-setting period as world Featherweight champion, as well as for his involvement in the Black Sox scandal and other scandals. Attell was Jewish, but he grew up in an Irish neighborhood. Because of that, he often found himself involved in fights, and according to him, he would get involved in as many as 10 bouts each day as a kid. Attell's father abandoned his family when Attell was 13, and Attell had to sell newspapers to support his family. He used to sell them on the streets and corners, and while selling newspapers, he got a chance to witness the fight between Solly Smith and George Dixon for the world's Featherweight championship. With that, Attell and two of his brothers were convinced that maybe they had a future in boxing. Attell's first fight was on August 19, 1900, when he knocked out Kid Lennett in two rounds. His mother, who strongly opposed Attell's idea of being a boxer, later became one of Attell's staunchest supporters, even betting on her son to win. He gained the nickname "The Little Hebrew" in these early fights.
    [Show full text]
  • Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 1919 World Series Paul Orzechowski
    The Histories Volume 9 | Issue 2 Article 3 Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 1919 World Series Paul Orzechowski Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/the_histories Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Orzechowski, Paul () "Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 1919 World Series," The Histories: Vol. 9 : Iss. 2 , Article 3. Available at: https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/the_histories/vol9/iss2/3 This Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Scholarship at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The iH stories by an authorized editor of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Histories, Volume 9, Number 1 3 I Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 1919 World Series By Paul Orzechowski ‘10 The greatest legend in baseball history is considered by most to be Babe Ruth. It is fitting that Ruth modeled his swing off the only player who is as much a legend as himself. Much like “The Babe,” this man is known to history by a nickname: “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. Ironically, the pure swing of this baseball outlaw helped create the savior of baseball, Babe Ruth. In recent years, Jackson has become one of the most interesting and written about players in baseball history. His story is characterized by myths and undisclosed truths, ranging from the origin of his nickname, “Shoeless Joe” to the oft quoted child’s request“Say it ain’t so Joe!” (regarding Jackson’s involvement in the Black Sox Scandal). These myths serve as testimony to his legendary status in the history of the game of baseball.
    [Show full text]
  • Fighting Heart
    JOHNNY KILBANE: FIGHTING HEART A SCULPTURE BY ROWAN GILLESPIE This booklet is dedicated to the memory of Dr Martin T Hart The publishers would like to thank Kevin O’Toole, Marianne Mangan and Des Kilbane JOHNNY KILBANE – A FIGHTING HEART A sculpture by Rowan Gillespie First published by The Irish American Archives Society in 2015 Text © Roger Kohn 2015 Copyright for typesetting, editing, layout, design © Roger Kohn 2015 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by Badger Press Limited, Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3AS, United Kingdom Design, typesetting and production Roger Kohn Photography Rowan Gillespie, Marianne Mangan, Des Kilbane, Roger Kohn, Liam Blake Printed on Revive 50:50 Silk, a 50% recycled paper. The composition of the paper is 25% de-inked post-consumer waste, 25% unprinted pre-consumer waste and 50% virgin fiber. All pulps used are Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) and the manufacturing mill is accredited with the ISO 14001 standard for environmental management. www.irisharchives.org www.rowangillespie.com www.johnnykilbane.com www.rogerkohn.biz JOHNNY KILBANE: FIGHTING HEART A SCULPTURE BY ROWAN GILLESPIE t r a THE JOHNNY KILBANE STORY e h g n ohn (Johnny) Patrick Kilbane held boxing’s World Featherweight Championship title i Jfor eleven years from February 1912 to June 1923; an extraordinary record never t h g since matched – the longest uninterrupted tenure of any boxing title in the history of i f the sport.
    [Show full text]
  • Sporting Briefs
    LOS ANGELES HERALD; THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1906. PART U 3 FRANKIE NEIL AND Craniate ROYCROFT WINS BEGIN SERIES Repairs, Storage and Supplies ABE ATTELLMATCHED Lee Motor Car Co. SPORTINGBig Seat Demand "dead"BRIEFSone. Ryan says that Burns 1218-20 South Main Street there nny doubt as whipped Hart to a standstill and can SAINTS If ever existed they WITH do Iteasier next time meet. EOTHEN Manager McCarey HANDICAP to propriety the of M'CABEY GETS ANOTHER BIG BATTLE in offering a $20,000 purse for the Nel- son-Herrera bout, it is being dispelled Rose at Emeryville ANGELS GETTING DOWN TO by the continual flow of seat appli- George Rose, who %|||te^ Ramblersl3so EMERYVILLE FEATURE TAKEN by mall, "Chesterfleldian" cations, oral and which are lost between $40,000 and $50,000 making a Sons Agree to Box Twenty Rounds inLos being received at the office In advance season, cut K^gJ ' HvrryEquipment Native REAL PRACTICE book at Ascot last has in wBO» ******TS^O/ Carrie* S people. BY ASCOT HORSE of the opening of the Beat sale. These at Emeryville expects to get even April 20 for the Featherweight orders are for one, two, five and ten and Angeles McCarey is turn- before going east. Rose is one of the Cowan seats at a time, but popular who ever W.K. gj-sag"* ing down orders for more than ten most bookmakers Jockey Brussell Slips Long Shot Championship ofWorld—Negotiations Pennant Winners and College Team the purchaser is stood on a block, and if he should re- seats at a time unless the known to him is not ticket cover his losses at 'Frisco news Through on Rail and Beats Out Principals Yesterday Arrange Three Games for This and a be good to of Closed With scalper.
    [Show full text]
  • Buck Weaver's Family Pushes to Get 'Black Sox' Player Reinstated
    Buck Weaver's family pushes to get 'Black Sox' player reinstated Chicago White Sox player Buck Weaver was banned from baseball 94 years ago, after being accused of throwing the 1919 World Series. Now his 88-year-old niece, Pat Anderson, is appealing for his reinstate- ment as soon as possible. Weaver raised Anderson on Chicago's South Side. (John Owens, Chicago Trib- une) By John Owens, Chicago Tribune Posted Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 For almost 30 years, Patricia Anderson has lived in this scenic, rural Missouri town about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis. But in her living room, she is surrounded by images of her youth on the South Side of Chicago, where she was raised by her uncle — former White Sox third baseman George "Buck" Weaver. Weaver is in almost all of the photos, often appearing with celebrities. One picture fea- tures Weaver with Babe Ruth and silent-film swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks. Another www.ChicagoBaseballMuseum.org [email protected] is of Weaver with film star Buck Jones. And there are photos of Buck with his family, including one of an older Weaver with his wife, Helen, and others at Anderson's wed- ding in Chicago in 1948. "Living with Buck, it was a wonderful way to grow up," Anderson said. "He was my idol." Patricia Anderson, the niece of Chicago White Sox third baseman Buck Weaver, holds up a photo of her uncle as she sits in her home in Kimberling City, Mo. on May 17, 2015. Anderson is asking for Major League Baseball to reinstate Weaver, one of the eight White Sox players who was banned from the ma- jors in the "Black Sox" scandal, where eight Sox players were accused of fixing the 1919 World Series.
    [Show full text]
  • WELLS PUT IT OVER ABE ATTELL STARLAND Where ELECTION
    Page'A TJIE LETIIRKIDCE WEEKLY HERALD Thursday, .Si>|rtciiiber 21, 1011. Record of all Live Events of Interest MAJESTIC THEATRE W. B. SHERMAN; Manigtr. PHONE M4 to Western Can- ada Readers Walters Stock Company FIVE NIGHTS coinmuidng Mon., Sept. 25 Opening play DOES THIS GET YOUR GOAT? HOW TO TURN OUT BORN B1RDMAN Games in Ihe Or Does It Appeal to You at the CHAMPION MIT "CORIANTON" WELLS PUT IT Bob Fowler's Mother Has 3t«fl«d by LUKE CO8GRAVC "Fient Dope?" WiELDERS Big Leagues PUce, South America. jlmt, 75 Vtiri i.C. Faith in Young t Iyer To jun oiio's Koni is the most THE KING OF PLAYS AN AZTEC ROMANCE, by ORESTES U. KAN. wi.Icly iiS'.'il c?:proasion of the pres- Five or Six Men Alive Who Ought to OVER ABE Winning' $50,000 cur day. perhaps. A yreat many NATIONAL "Corlanton IB no proselyting schema; K is a Christian play. teacJtfu j Evolve a Wonder ... 0110 000 001—1 f> 0 a lesson in Christianity which the whole world might do wjll to |n'i-suiui who make .use oC it have 1 j ; Prize Philadelphia ... OOO 000 000—0 I 2 learn." —Kansas City Star. not tho stiglitost; idea of its deri- ! If I had n young fellow on my'stafl Cole and Archer; Moore and Mad- "After witnessing Cor Inn ton one IB almost led to «xclaim IB did I Los Angelfj. (\\\.. Sept. 21. — "My vailon, aiiiio.n^h they. pL'i'fectly -who had tho builil, the ambition ""li 1 den, Snobs at Solomon's magnificence: 'The half ban not been told me.'" ATTELL | bo.v's fcro'n;; 10 win, I iiilmirc his iHKifi^iami its mottuins .
    [Show full text]
  • Eliot Asinof - Eight Men Out
    Eliot Asinof - Eight Men Out Eight Men Out The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series Eliot Asinof 1963 To Gahan and Marty "As Jackson departed from the Grand Jury room, a small boy clutched at his sleeve and tagged along, after him. "'Say it ain't so, Joe,' he pleaded. 'Say it ain't so.'" —Chicago Herald and Examiner, September 30, 1920 "The most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!" These headlines proclaiming the 1919 fix of the World Series startled millions of readers and focused the attention of the entire country on one of the most incredible episodes ever to be enacted in the public eye. Now, after painstaking research, Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of this fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the series to Cincinnati. Mr. Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the conniving, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. Moving behind the scenes, he perceptively examines the motives and backgrounds of the players and the conditions that made the improbable fix all too possible. Here are the anguished, guilty pitchers, Eddie Cicotte and "Lefty" Williams; the bewildered, fixed left fielder, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson; and the victimized third baseman, "Buck" Weaver. There are also deft portrayals of Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson, as well as of deeply shocked newspapermen like Ring Lardner. The graphic picture of the American underworld which managed the fix lends eerie fascination to the book.
    [Show full text]
  • BA MSS 16 Black Sox Papers
    Collection Number BA MSS 16 BL-3049.96 Title Black Sox Scandal (American League Records) Inclusive Dates 1914-1969; bulk 1919-1921 Abstract Records and photographs from American League President Ban Johnson’s office relating to the Black Sox World Series Scandal in 1919, when eight players from Charles Comiskey’s White Sox were indicted for throwing games for financial gain. Other baseball gambling incidents discussed in the collection include the relationship between New York pitcher Carl Mays and Boston gambler “Pete the Greek,” and a 1917 incident in which the White Sox players took up a collection to pay pitchers from the Detroit club, who beat Boston at a crucial point in the pennant race, $200 each. The records consist primarily of Johnson’s correspondence but also include trial documents and exhibits, player interviews and depositions, the reports of private investigators hired by the League, and photocopies of period newspaper accounts of the scandal. Provenance The collection was donated to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1995 by the Office of the Commissioner. Papers arranged and described by Anne McFarland in December 2001, with additional processing by Jonathan Nelson in January 2002 and Claudette Scrafford in June 2013. Restrictions The material contained in this collection may not be photocopied, otherwise duplicated or published by request of the donor. A researcher may take notes and refer to this material in a publication if so desired. Written permission is required to copy, please contact [email protected] for further information. Access By appointment during regular business hours, email [email protected].
    [Show full text]
  • JBC Book Clubs Discussion Guide Created in Partnership with Mandel Vilar Press Jewishbookcouncil.Org
    JBC Book Clubs Discussion Guide Created in partnership with Mandel Vilar Press Jewishbookcouncil.org Jewish Book Council Contents: History of Boxing 3 JBC Book Clubs Discussion Questions 4 Recipes Inspired by Max Baer and the Star of David 5 Jay Neugeboren’s JBC Visiting Scribe Blog Posts 8 Littlejohn and Baer Family Trees 11 Related Reads 12 About Jewish Book Council 13 History of Boxing Boxing—also called pugilism, the sweet science, or War, as young men were mostly enlisted with the war the “manly art of self-defense”—is one of the world’s effort in some capacity. The evidence of corruption oldest sports. Evidence exists of some form of boxing that had started to become evident in the 1930s in- taking place as early as 3000 B.C.E in Mesopotamia, creased, and the mob’s involvement was in full force Asia Minor and North Africa, and it became recog- in the 1940s. Boxing continued to develop, with more nized as an Olympic game by the Ancient Greeks in racial and cultural diversity evident. The 1950s were 688 B.C.E. considered a golden age for boxing, with television screens increasing the audience to millions.However, The first official records of a boxing match dates to boxing’s audience was beginning to decrease around 1681 in Great Britain, when the Duke of Albemarle the late 1970s, with public broadcasts turning into arranged a fight between his butcher and his butler pay-per-view and the focus becoming more about the for entertainment. This early form of boxing was casino world.
    [Show full text]