100 years ago: Baseball fans receiving timely World Series bulletins

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 10, 1914:

  • “Lawrence baseball enthusiasts depended yesterday upon the Journal-World for its bulletin service on the first game of the World’s Series. And not alone Lawrence, although practically 200 people stood in front of the Journal-World office, while the game, play by play, was read to them. As quickly as the bulletins came over the special leased wire, the reports of the plays were telephoned to Baldwin, where they were posted on a Journal-World bulletin board for the citizens of Baldwin. From Baldwin they were again relayed to Wellsville, 12 miles farther south, so that the Journal-World gave its readers in three municipalities, a play by play report of the most important event in the baseball season within five minutes of the time the last ball was pitched at Shibe Park, Philadelphia.”
  • “If Lawrence is to have many more rainstorms like those of the past two days, there is an immediate necessity for the city commissioners to take some action to protect the sidewalks on the east side of Mississippi street. An escarpment should be built along the front of the hill to prevent the torrential rains washing the heavy clay down over the streets. Already great furrows have been cut in the sloping lawns, and several hundred feet of earth, all told, is spread out over the sidewalks. Following the municipal talk, here is an opportunity for municipal action.”
  • “Coach ‘Twisty’ Granger [of Emporia] and his bunch of fighting bloods arrived in town this morning with lots of ‘pep’ and what they called ‘a fighting chance.’ ‘I don’t see but what we have a reasonable chance against the Kansas team,’ said Granger in speaking of his outlook for the afternoon. ‘Our line up is in good shape and the boys will put up a good scrap.’
  • “At the suggestion of Dr. E. E. Stauffer, Bell Brothers have donated an organ to the county home. This is the first advancement toward getting a musical instrument for the entertainment of the people at the home.”
  • “J. W. Bailey presented this office with some of the finest apples that have been brought in this season. They were grown at Springdale, Arkansas. They are called the Collins Reds.”
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