White Sox
Then: The Sox continue their homestand tear, improving to 9-1 by handling defending AL champion Philadelphia for the second consecutive game.
Now: Sox hed
Cubs
Then: Three Finger Brown has his amputated magic working, and leads the Spuds to victory despite the attempts by Giants manager John McGraw to incite the Polo Grounds fans into a riot.
Now: Cubs hed
Other sports stories
Griffith may secure Glade: The second-place New York Highlanders are all but certain that they will acquire pitcher Fred Glade from the St. Louis Browns. Find out if they blew it.
Onwentsia cup at skiddoo pace: The home team runs away with the Onwentsia Cup golf tournament, winning 23 up to Exmoor’s and Midlothian’s 5 up. The 23, of course, leads to the lame “skiddoo” reference.
On the front page
Bank wrecked; Officers gone; Loss kills two: “With its principal executive officers mysteriously absent from the city, and with the cashier sought for embezzlement, and the president for guilty knowledge of unlawful financial practices, the [Milwaukee Avenue State] bank—holding more than $4,000,000 of the savings, chiefly of poor people—is said to be beyond all hope of saving.
Triple lynching by mob of 3,000: “Three of the six Negroes in jail here charged with the murder of the Lyerly family at Barber Junction on July 18 were lynched last night at 11 o’clock by a mob which numbered 3,000. The trial of the Negroes began yesterday.”
