Wilmington, Delaware

3 clippings from Wilmington, Delaware.

Story headed Chicks Won First Sunday Game, Defeated the Paterson Union Leaguers by Score of 3 to 2, reporting Wilmington's first Sunday game of the season before 3000 spectators in weather far too cold for baseball, with full box scores of both teams, and below it a boxed advertisement reading Baseball, South Side Park Tuesday Afternoon, Wilmington vs Altoona, Game Called 3.30 o'clock, Admission 25c, Grand Stand 25c, Ladies Grand Stand Free except Saturdays and Holidays.

Chicks Won First Sunday Game

Wilmington Chicks
Wilmington, Delaware · 1908

Story headed Brent Gets To Top As The Chick Premier Hitter, reporting the Chicks are still at the bottom of the Tri-State League but won three of six games, with a full batting and fielding averages table by Alexander Abrahams showing Brent leading at .339 with Fritz at .325 and Weeks at .304.

Brent Gets to Top as the Chick Premier Hitter

Wilmington Chicks
Wilmington, Delaware · 1911

Seven-panel comic strip titled Reddy the Rooter, He Sure Is a Noble Fourth. Reddy the office boy schemes to get to the ball game, a coworker urges him to tell the boss he is sick, Reddy instead asks the boss straight for a holiday, and the boss, a good noble youth himself, tells him to take a holiday today and enjoy himself. The last panel shows the boss at the game shouting He bit on two live ones, now send over a cripple.

Reddy the Rooter; He Sure Is a "Noble Fourth"

The Evening Journal
Wilmington, Delaware · 1911