Thursday, July 25, 2024

Friday, July 25, 1924. Speeding the game up.

Greece announced it was expelling 50,000 Armenians.

The British communist journal Workers Weekley urged British troops to turn the weapons on their "oppressors" in the event of a war.

American League president Ban Johnson ordered umpires to speed baseball games up by cutting trivial arguments about balls and strikes down and by limiting the time that players inspected balls.

Azem Galica, Albanian nationalist, died of wounds causing the collapse of the the ethnic Albanian rebellion that sought to unite Kosovo with Albania.

Frontier Days for 1924 was wrapping up.



Last edition:

Saturday, July 19, 1924. Birth of Stan Hathaway.

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