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A SENSATIONAL QUARREL
Amsterdam, July 28. The Ninth Olympic Games have opened..
MONDAY, JULY 30, 1928.
AMERICAN BASEBALL. CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.
RESULTS IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES.
New York, July 28. The full wock's results in the American and National Baseball Leagues are were as follows:
NATIONAL EAGUE, Saturday, July 21.
Brooklyn Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati
2. New York
7 Brooklyn
10 Brooklyn
5 Basion
à Philadelphia
Sunday, July 22.
The stadium was thronged with a crowd of forty thousand when the Prince Consort made the off- cial opening declaration. There had been considérable doubt as to whether a commencement would be possible to-day. Rain fell all Chicago
Pittsburg night. The clouds broke this
Pittsburg morning, however, and sunshine Cincinnati lit up the gaily beflagged streets. g Louis
At the stadium the Prince Con- sort was tumultuously cheered as he took the salute, to the straina | Brooklyn of the Dutch National Anthem:
The opening was marked with A sensation when the parade of competitors was forming. As the cream of the world's manhood marched past the, Royal Box, it was found that the French com- Brooklyn petitors ware not participating in the march. It was learned that their absence was due to a misun- New York
A gatekeeper, Brooklyn derstanding with who yesterday refused the team Philadelphia permission to take a view of the grounds, though this had been nu- thorised. A heated argument fol-New York lowed, during which the gate- Brooklyn keeper struck M. Mirekamp, Secre. Bostan
Philadelphia tary of the French team, and the Philadelphia Frenchmen Immediately with- drew.
The Netherlands Olympic Com- mittee on hearing of the incident apologised, and the matter was-be- lieved closed, but when the French team arrived to participate in the March past they found the same gatekeeper on duty. One, story was that, the gatekeeper again obstinately refused to admit the French athletes who again with- drew to consider whether they would participate in the games at all. It transpired later, however, that no second incident occurred. After the first incident the French team was promised that the offend- ing gatekeeper would be dismiss ed. When the team arrived and found him still on duty.they spon- taneously decided not to par- ticipate in the march past and lodged an official protest describ ing the incident as a gross insult. Meanwhile the French authorities consulted with the French Minis- ter to the Netherlands before de- elding whether they would parti- cipate in the games.
Was
Subsequently the matter settled. The French team decided to take part and took the Olymple oath along with the other teams in the stadium in the afternoon..-- Reuter.
A GREAT FIRE.
SIX-STOREY WHARF AND CONTENTS DESTROYED.
London, July 28, Overheated peanuts are. belleved to have been the cause of the grealest river fire for years, at the century-old, six-storey wharf occupied by Messrs. Chambers on the waterway of the Thames. It is in the danger-zone of the Tooley-street Dosk area, and was stocked with grain, peanuts, and dessiented coconut.
The fire started yesterday even- ing, the flames leaping 100 feet. Two hundred fremen from var ous parts of London battled all night long and thousands of sightseers thronged the London Bridge and Tower Bridge on both sides of the river..
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Friday, July 27.
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1 Chiengo
1 Cincinnati
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
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Cleveland
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7 St. Louis
4 Detroit
Sunday, July 22.
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