The Coolidge family went to a baseball game.
In baseball, but not at this game, Jesse Barnes of the Boston Braves opposed Virgil Barnes of the New York Giants in the first brother vs. brother pitching duel. in major league baseball history.
The Giants won.
Both brothers had been pitchers for the Giants at one time.
The United States and Bulgaria exchanged ratifications of an extradition treaty.
At the Democratic Convention, Franklin Roosevelt nominated Al Smith for the Democratic ticket.
William McAdoo had been assumed to be the shoe in nominee in 1923, but things had begun to go off the rails. It had been learned that he had accepted a $25,000 campaign contribution from oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny, who was associated with the Teapot Dome Scandal. He returned it, but at the convention he received the support of the Ku Klux Klan and refused to reveal if he was a member or not. He did not repudiate the Klan, which in turn caused Catholic support to evaporate.
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