Cubs
Then: Star shortstop Joe Tinker gets spiked by a slidin’ Illini during a victory that featured a couple of circus plays. In the morning, the regulars lose intra-squad bragging rights to the reserves, lifting the spirits of a sick Mordecai Brown.
Now: Cubs sign Lee for $65 million
White Sox
Then: The A-squad holds off Dayton with the help of several errors while the B-squad borrows a pitcher from Sioux City, then beats Sioux City.
Now: Garcia’s heater shows up
Other sports stories
Victories for the two Georges: Two guys named George (Sutton and Slosson) win their respective matches at a large billiards tournament held in Madison Square Garden. That’s right, billiards at Madison Square Garden.
Carlisle after Maroon game: Officials at the Carlisle Indian School try to schedule a football game with the University of Chicago.
On the front page
“The Jungle” hunt to produce game: President Roosevelt, not convinced by the report of the commission he sent to Chicago to investigate the stockyards, is determined to get to the bottom of the problems created by Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle.” Roosevelt appears either to want to end corruption in the stockyards or nail Sinclair for libel, and is involving two government departments and a private investigator.
Dowie promises fight to finish: Actually on page 3, but more interesting than the refurbished laws regarding primary voting or renovation of train tracks. Zion founder John Alexander Dowie arrives in Chicago looking feeble as can be, but says this about the people of Zion, who voted him out of power: “No compromise on my part. No settlement except unconditional surrender on theirs.” Not likely, as the Tribune says Dowie “is only a shadow of his old time vigorous self—weak, emaciated, and walking with difficulty. He is upheld entirely by an indomitable will.”
