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...third win in four starts during the past two weeks, Curtiss held the opposing batters to four scratch hits for a single run in the first eight frames. Tiring in the ninth, the sopohomore right-hander gave way to Ed Ingalls, after allowing four base knocks and three tallies. Ingalls forced the Tufts batter to ground out to the pitcher's box retiring the side...
...Scratch Sheets Scooped...
...TIME, May 10, scoops the bookies, tipsters, touts and scratch-sheets by picking the Derby one, two, three, and cinching it with pictures on the front page! Of course there might have been some question about what time of day to start that "clockwise" business, but I figure a guy could stay in coffee and cakes with nothing but piker bets to "show" as long as TIME was picking them...
Meanwhile, were Italian and German troops in Morocco on the point of mutiny in some places, and at others, were Spanish troops so incensed by the "superior airs" of these foreigners that affrays were of frequent occurrence, Rightist discipline not up to scratch? Iron censorship hid the facts, but advices reaching Denmark from Morocco supported Leftist rumors to this effect. Rightists countered with rumors of mutiny among the dinamiteros or dynamite-throwing Leftist miners who ever since the start of the war have been trying to capture Rightists whom they continued last week to besiege in Oviedo...
Clyde Beatty was thankful that he had got through the trying first day of a new season without a scratch for himself or a catfight among his 40 surly charges. To show business, however, the first day's two performances of the Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus marked a more important accomplishment, one which old John Ringling, last of the seven brothers, vowed he would never see but which he did not see only because he died last December. John Ringling was accustomed to open his season every year in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden with no rival...