Stoddard County Sports History

Games, scores, teams, and players from Stoddard County newspapers, 1887–1931 — town baseball nines, high-school football and basketball, gun-club shoots, boxing, golf, fishing, and more. Details are given as the papers printed them; apparent contradictions in scores are preserved rather than resolved.

Baseball (528)

1880s

1887-04-30

Base ball with the Dexter boys; game called about two o'clock, lasted until about five; tally Dexter 33, Bloomfield 20; the 140 pound representative of the VINDICATOR among the spectators

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1887-05-14

Mixed game of base ball Sunday between Dexter boys and Bloomfield boys; the Dexter boys agreed to disagree, hence the failure of the match game

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1887-06-11

The Bloomfield boys think of challenging the Puxico Base Ball club for a game at Dexter in a few weeks. (No persons named.)

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1910s

1910-04-29

The Dexter 'Walk-Overs' (Dexter High School) defeated Sikeston High in a game Friday, 15 to 12

Dexter Statesman, May 4, 1910 · clip DS-1910-05-04-p05-baseball

1910-05-08

Our boys were defeated here Sunday by Aid, with a score of 14 to 11. (Baseball.)

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1910-06-02

FATS VS. LEANS charity ballgame for the Dexter Public Library, Thursday June 2 at 2:30 p.m.; net proceeds to the library; business houses will close. FATS (partial): Tom Ulen Jr., Tim Ulen (pitcher), E. P. Crowe, H. C. Miller, R. E. Childs, Sam Ulen, Bill Miller, Asa Norman, C. D. Biggs, Bud White; coach Isaac…

Dexter Statesman, May 25, 1910 · clip DS-1910-05-25-p01-ballgame

1913-07-02

Hill and McMullen of Parma formed the battery for the Malden town team, which came up to Dexter last Sunday and beat the Dexter team 3 to 0, leaving them with a 'goose-egg' to hold

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1913-07-02

Five Malden lads assisted by two Campbell boys, with Hill and McMullen of Parma as battery, beat the Dexter team 3 to 0; Will McMullin said the Dexter boys treated the visitors so nicely that he told the home boys to hold up and not hurt their feelings by making any more scores

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1913-07-02

Malden defeated Dexter 3-0 last Sunday; five Malden lads went up to Dexter as their battery, per last week's Malden Merit quoted in the Sporting Gossip column

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1913-07-02

Of Parma; formed the battery with McMullen for the Malden team that beat Dexter 3 to 0 last Sunday

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1913-07-02

Of Parma; formed the battery with Hill for the Malden team that beat Dexter 3 to 0 last Sunday

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1913-07-02

McMullin said the Dexter boys treated the Malden boys so nicely in a ball game that he told the home boys to hold up and not hurt the Dexter boys' feelings by making any more scores

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1913-07-02

Malden defeated Dexter 3-0 in baseball last Sunday (per last week's Malden Merit); five Malden lads as their battery went up to Dexter

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1913-08-06

Dexter beat Hickory Ridge, Ark., Monday and Tuesday, 5 to 4 (11 innings) and 9 to 1; the Dexter team leaves to-day for Doniphan. Item cut off at bottom of image

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1913-08-06

The Stoddard ball team were matched Sunday afternoon; score 9 to 21, the boys credited with 47 singles, 23 doubles and 9 home runs (opponent name cut off)

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1913-08-06

Dexter beat Hickory Ridge, Ark., Monday and Tuesday 5 to 4 (11 innings) and 9 to 1; the Dexter team leaves to-day for Doniphan, where they play to-morrow [item cut at shot edge]

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1913-08-06

DEXTER TAKES TWO: Dexter beat Hickory Ridge, Ark., Monday and Tuesday to the tune of 5 to 4 (11 innings) and 9 to 1; the Dexter team leaves to-day for Doniphan, where they play to-morrow

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1913-08-06

The visiting Daltons baseball team, with a record of 14 wins and two losses, claimed the championship of both Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas; a return game may be arranged later

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1913-10-01

A female base ball club played a Dexter team at the Dexter park; two men were the battery and the rest women; the club held Dexter to one run, final score 1 to 0

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1913-10-08

Pitcher (with catcher Estes) of Dexter's home battery against Kennett High; it was Sitton's first game and Dexter won 3-0

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1913-10-08

Catcher (with pitcher Sitton) of Dexter's home battery against Kennett High in Dexter's 3-0 win

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1913-10-08

Dexter player who, with Leslie Hubbard and company, carried the game; Dexter beat Kennett High 3-0

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1913-10-08

Dexter won both baseball games against Kennett High, 2 to 1 and 3 to 0; the home battery of Sitton (his first game) and Estes was praised, Gregg Miller pitched a dominant game, and H. Norman made a running catch of a hot liner

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1913-10-08

The home battery of Sitton and Estes starred in Dexter's 2-to-1 defeat of Kennett on Saturday; it was Sitton's first game

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1913-10-15

Dexter High beat visiting Bloomfield High 8 to 0 last Friday

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1913-10-15

Sunday: the regular Dexter city team beat Charleston's first team 9 to 0

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1913-10-29

On Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 8, a base ball game was played between the High School and Bloomfield; the score was 8 to 0 in favor of Dexter

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1913-10-29

On Wednesday, Oct. 15, a ball game was played between the High School and the Alumni; the score was 5 to (cut off) in favor of the High School

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1914-04-15

Dexter is organizing for some base ball this summer; Chas. A. Miller is going to hold a part of the Fair grounds for a ball park

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1914-04-15

Herman Kastner is reported to be going to build a park in the Mathews addition of the Cotton Belt as Dexter organizes summer base ball

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1914-04-15

Dexter is organizing baseball for the summer; Chas. A. Miller is going to hold a part of the Fair grounds for a ball park

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1914-04-15

In the Mathews addition of the Cotton Belt, Herman Kastner is reported to be going to build a park as Dexter organizes summer baseball

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1914-04-16

Dexter baseball team opens its season next Sunday at Dexter against the Morehouse team; Dexter has organized a Base Ball Association and is preparing a league diamond with 150 more grandstand seats; Mr. Sprinkle will pitch the inaugural game

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1914-04-16

The Dexter base ball team opens its season at home next Sunday against Morehouse; the club has organized as the Dexter Base Ball Association, elected a president, manager, secretary and treasurer, and added 150 seats to the grand stand; Mr. Sprinkle will pitch the inaugural game

Dexter Statesman · clip ds-1911-1930-20260925T014118.352482138Z

1914-04-22

Beat the visiting Morehouse club last Sunday by 14 tallies to 9 goose eggs after a 'diamond controveresy'; the item notes it is hard to get a team to interest the local boys

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1914-05-06

Dexter's ball team beat the Sikeston Bush Leaguers 4 to 0 Sunday behind the pitching of Sprinkles and Anderson; the team has won six of its last seven games, all shutouts, outscoring opponents 41 to nothing

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1914-05-06

With Sprinkles and Anderson pitching, the Dexter team is assured of a pitching staff second to none in the amateur rank; the team is an organized body of city businessmen playing home boys

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1914-05-06

With Sprinkles and Anderson pitching, the Dexter team is assured of a pitching staff second to none in the amateur rank; the team is an organized body of city businessmen playing home boys

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1914-05-06

Dexter got Kennett's goat 5 to 4; the Saturday game was tied 2 to 2 in the 9th and called to let the Dexter boys catch their train; they will accept an invitation to repeat the visit at Dunklin County's capital

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1914-05-06

Pitcher Sprinkles helped the Dexter ball team beat the Sikeston Bush Leaguers 4 to 0 last Sunday

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1914-05-06

Pitcher Anderson helped the Dexter ball team beat the Sikeston Bush Leaguers 4 to 0 last Sunday

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1914-05-13

Report that Harry Crouch may sign with the Sikeston League team

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1914-05-13

Kennett will be here Friday and Saturday to discuss the relative standing of its base ball team with ours; the Dexter High school boys recently visited Kennett, winning the first game and tying the second

Dexter Statesman · clip ds-1911-1930-20260925T025321.882887358Z

1914-05-13

May sign with the Sikeston League team

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1914-05-27

The Nebraska Indian base ball team will play the Dexter team Saturday and Sunday June 13 and 14

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1914-06-03

Has signed with Sikeston's league team, where he played at shortstop

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1914-06-03

Under his businesslike management the Dexter Club is getting games with clubs worthy of its steel; last Saturday the club played a ten-inning tie and a Sunday game against the St. Louis O'Neills, with the St. Louis Friscos club next

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1914-06-03

Hit for 3 sacks and came home on an error at third in Sunday's second game against the St. Louis O'Neills; the paper calls the hit the feature of the game

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1914-06-03

Struck out nine visiting batters in Sunday's second game against the St. Louis O'Neills

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1914-06-03

The Nebraska Indian baseball team will play the Dexter team on Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14 at Dexter

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1914-06-03

Local club played two games last Saturday against the O'Neills, a strong amateur team of St. Louis: the first game a ten-inning tie; in the second the O'Neills bunched their hits in the 4th and tallied five on seven Dexter errors. The club is under the businesslike management of Chas. A. Miller; the next opponent is…

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1914-06-03

Dexter catcher McGhee hit for three sacks and came home on an error at third in the second game against the O'Neills; his hit was the feature of the game

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1914-06-03

Dexter pitcher Bachus struck out nine visiting O'Neills batters in the second game; only one local struck out against Overbeck

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1914-06-03

Manager of the Dexter baseball club; the present management under his businesslike management is getting games with clubs worthy of the Dexter Club steel

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1914-06-03

Advertised exhibition games at Dexter Saturday and Sunday, June 13th and 14th; a team of genuine Indians in its seventeenth year of travel throughout the United States and Canada

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1914-06-03

Bloomfield Business men play Dexter Business men next Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. at North side Park for the benefit of the libraries of both towns (proceeds divided 60 and 40, big end to winners); batteries Hart and Smith for Dexter, Nunnelee and Holt for Bloomfield; umpire Rev. R. P. Basler; admission 25 cts, ladies free

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1914-06-03

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1914-06-03

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1914-06-03

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1914-06-03

Will umpire the Dexter vs Bloomfield businessmen's benefit baseball game at North side Park

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1914-06-03

Dexter's baseball team played the O'Neills of St. Louis last Saturday in two hot tussles; the first game was a ten-inning tie despite Dexter's nine hits. Box score lists Dexter players Stuart, Crouch, Hammondtree, Hiller, Smith, Bachus, Kyles, Bowman, Creek, and McGhee

Dexter Statesman · clip ds-1911-1930-20260925T033618.157618307Z

1914-06-03

Dexter pitcher Spinkles allowed the visiting St. Louis O'Neills only two counted hits over ten innings

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1914-06-03

St. Louis pitcher Overbeck struck out 7 Dexter batters in the first game

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1914-06-03

McGhee tripled for Dexter in the second game, coming home on an error at third

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1914-06-03

Bachus struck out 9 visitors for Dexter in the second game against the O'Neills

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1914-06-03

McGhee hit for 3 sacks, coming home on an error at third; this hit was the feature of the game

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1914-06-03

Bachus made 9 visitors beat the breezes while pitching for Dexter

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1914-06-10

Beat the Frisco team of St. Louis 12 to 2 last Sunday at Northside Park; the Frisco team came at 10 a.m. via Sikeston and left on the 9 p.m. I. M. train

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1914-06-10

Baseball club with forty-odd straight games won comes to Dexter next Saturday and Sunday; the locals are not looking for a walkover

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1914-06-10

Ben Baker's Bloomfield Boobs beat Dunc's Dexter Dummies by a score of 18 to 14 in a 10-inning battle

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1914-06-10

A baseball team plays at Dexter on Saturday and Sunday, June 13th and 14th

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1914-06-10

Dexter's Sluggers beat the Frisco team of St. Louis 12 to 2 in a Sunday game at Northside Park, Dexter

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1914-06-10

'Frisco-Dexter Game': Dexter's Sluggers beat the Frisco team of St. Louis 12 to 2 last Sunday at Northside Park

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1914-06-10

Beat the St. Louis Frisco team 12 to 2 in a slugging match at Northside Park last Sunday

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1914-06-17

Dexter's baseball club beat Green's Nebraska Indians 4 to 2 Saturday and 1 to 0 Sunday at North Side Park, Dexter; full box scores of both games printed

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1914-06-17

Dexter's club beat Green's Nebraska Indians both games Saturday and Sunday at North Side Park, 4 to 2 and 1 to 0; pitchers Anderson and Cadatte, backstop Balaga; box scores printed

Dexter Statesman · clip ds-1911-1930-20260925T040441.438890043Z

1914-06-17

Petty and his pill pelters will be here Sunday week to face the Dexter Base Ball Club; games are noted for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 19, 20 and 21

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1914-06-17

Dexter defeated the Neb. Indians 4-2 in Saturday's game; McGhee caught for Dexter and was praised as a brick wall behind the plate, while the visitors' back-stop Mr. Balaga made a foul catch nearly off an auto roof

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1914-07-01

Dexter lost the Farmington-Dexter series finale 9 to 1 on Sunday after 3-0 losses Friday and Saturday; Dexter batteries were Sprinkles and MaGhee, Hill and MaGhee, Baccus and MaGhee, with Sprinkles pitching the latter part of the ninth after Baccus was hurt; Dexter Sunday lineup: Crouch, Stuart, Hill, McGehee, Bachus,…

Dexter Statesman · clip ds-1911-1930-20260925T044300

1914-07-01

Sprinkles pitched for Dexter against Farmington in the Farmington-Dexter series

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1914-07-01

MaGhee caught for Dexter in all three games of the Farmington-Dexter series (with Sprinkles Friday, Hill Saturday, Baccus Sunday)

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1914-07-01

Baccus pitched for Dexter in Sunday's game, which Dexter won 9 to 1; the box score gives his name as Bachus

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1914-07-01

Hill pitched for Dexter Saturday and had two base hits in the series; Farmington won Friday and Saturday 3-0

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1914-07-01

Murphy pitched for Farmington and was hit hard by Dexter in Sunday's 9-1 game

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1914-07-01

Peltv, past pennant pincher for the St. Louis Browns, headlined the Farmington nine; the Sunday box score lists him as Petty, shortstop

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1914-07-01

Bunyard, Farmington third baseman, went 4 at-bats with 0 runs and 0 hits in Sunday's game

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1914-07-01

Wooten pitched for Farmington in Sunday's game, striking out 3; Dexter won 9 to 1

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1914-07-01

Box score printed: Dexter totals 32 at-bats, 9 runs, 7 hits against Farmington (31 AB, 1 R, 4 H); Dexter players Cronch ss, Stuart 2b, Hull lf, McGehee c, Bachus p, Bowman rf, Hammondtree cf, Miller 1b, Belleville 3b, Sprinkles p

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1914-07-01

Sprinkles pitched for the Dexter base ball nine in the Farmington-Dexter series, forming the Friday battery with MaGhee and pitching the latter part of the ninth inning Sunday after Baccus got hurt; Dexter lost the series nine to one

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1914-07-01

Hill formed the Saturday battery with MaGhee for the Dexter base ball nine in the Farmington-Dexter series; the Saturday game ended 3 to 0 in Farmington's favor

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1914-07-01

Baccus formed the Sunday battery with MaGhee for the Dexter base ball nine in the Farmington-Dexter series and got hurt, Sprinkles pitching the latter part of the ninth inning

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1914-07-01

Dexter's base ball nine met the Farmingtons (headed by Peltv, past pennant pitcher for the St. Louis Browns) in a three-game series: Farmington won Friday and Saturday 3 to 0, and Dexter took Sunday's finale by a 9 to 1 score; Dexter pitcher Baccus was hurt in the ninth and Sprinkles finished

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1914-07-08

The fast young shortstop of the Dexter club, left this week to re-join Petty and his fast Farmington bunch; Petty believes he can get Crouch signed with the Nebraska state League next season

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1914-07-08

A new pitcher from Jonesboro, Ark., tried out in the afternoon of the Fourth; proved not near so good as Sprinkles or Hill

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1914-07-08

The fast young shortstop of the Dexter club left this week to re-join Petty and his fast Farmington bunch for a series of games in the bottoms section of Southeast Missouri; Petty believes he can get Crouch signed with the Nebraska state League next season

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1914-07-15

Base ball next Sunday, Dexter vs. Rector

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1914-07-15

Base ball next Sunday, Dexter vs. Rector

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1914-07-15

Baseball game scheduled next Sunday: Dexter vs. Rector

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1914-07-22

Beat Rector, Ark. 8-3 on Sunday; Rector's battery was Outen and Outen (brothers) and McGehee pitched for Rector

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1914-07-22

Defeated a visiting Rector, Arkansas town-ball nine 8-3 on Sunday; Rector's battery was the brothers Outen and Outen; Dexter's Hill pitched and McGehee caught

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1914-07-22

Former Cardinal and Milwaukee star heads the Field-Lippman's amateur team of St. Louis, playing in Dexter Friday through Sunday, July 24-26; Dexter secured two new infielders from the Southern League

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1914-07-22

Last Sunday Dexter played base ball against Rector, Ark., in a humorously described game; the Rector battery was named Onten and Outen, brothers, who with the others of the nine were always getting out and not getting anywhere

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1914-07-29

Dexter took two of three weekend games from the St. Louis Field-Lippmanns: Friday's game 17 to 8 for St. Louis; Saturday's game reported as won by Dexter though the score is printed as '1 to 0, in St. Louis' favor'; Sunday 13 to 4 in Dexter's favor, the visitors' first defeat in 14 games

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1914-07-29

The Field-Lippmanns of St. Louis played three games of baseball in Dexter, Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Friday's game 17 to 8 for St. Louis; Sunday Dexter won 13 to 4, the first defeat in 14 games for the Field-Lippmanns. (The paper prints Saturday as both 'with Dexter winning' and '1 to 0, in St. Louis' favor' —…

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1914-07-29

Wilbur T. Bowman fished at Caney Creek last week and caught 45 pounds of fish in 45 minutes

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1914-07-29

The Sikeston League Club plays Dexter tomorrow, Thursday; the club is a strong one and games are even between them and Dexter

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1914-08-05

Dexter tied Sikeston 6 to 6 last Thursday and lost to Piggott, Ark. 7 to 5 last Sunday; Doniphan was to play here Saturday and Sunday, Aug 8 and 9

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1914-08-19

Dexter-Doniphan baseball: Doniphan won 19 to 4 at Poplar Bluff and took the series at Dexter; witnesses say Dexter umpire Ed. Sprinkles gave the game away and was rotten

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1914-08-19

The Malden baseball club played on the local grounds last Sunday; the score was 5 to 2 in favor of Dexter

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1914-08-19

Reprinted from the Doniphan Prospect-News: Doniphan beat Poplar Bluff 19 to 4; a three-game series at Dexter saw Dexter win 6 to 5 and 5 to 3 and Doniphan win 6 to 1; Ed. Sprinkles was the Dexter umpire

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1914-09-09

The Doniphan ball team boys got home Monday morning after a tour in which they played 24 games, winning 15 and losing 9

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1914-09-16

Doniphan took three straight games from St. Louis' crack ball team, the O'Neills, within the last week

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1914-09-23

Dexter beat Poplar Bluff 7 to 1 last Sunday

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1914-09-23

Dexter beat Poplar Bluff 7 to 1 last Sunday

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1914-10-14

Cairo played Dexter's first team here Sunday; ten innings, 0 to 0

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1914-10-14

Dudley defeated Pinhook in a Sunday ball game, 11 to something less (final score partially illegible)

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1915-02-24

Mr. Sheridan proposed a baseball league including Dexter, Poplar Bluff, Doniphan, Charleston, Piedmont, Campbell and Kennett; Dexter players mentioned include Smith, McGee, Roy Miller, E. Norman, the Millers, Bowman, Creek, Hammons, Crys, H. Esles and "Dough" Sitton

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1915-03-24

Representing Dexter fans, wrote the Southeast Missouri league secretary that Dexter wants in the league but will pay nothing for the Portageville franchise and wants action before the season starts

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1915-04-07

Answered the phone call from the New Madrid meeting of March 25 and formally accepted Dexter's place in the Southeast Missouri League; Dexter business men bought shares to cover the $100 forfeit and season expenses; games to be played at Northside Park; final arrangements meeting April 13

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1915-04-21

B. W. Bowman and J. Ross Holcomb of Dexter told the Southeast Missouri town baseball league meeting at the St. Charles Hotel that Dexter could field a team by May 2; the five-town league (Cape Girardeau, Sikeston, Dexter, New Madrid, Caruthersville) opens its season May 1; S. S. Thompson is association president

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1915-04-21

Poplar Bluff has joined the S. E. Mo. Base Ball League, the others being Cape Girardeau, Caruthersville, New Madrid and Sikeston; schedule opens May 1 [date from clip_id]

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1915-04-28

Dexter defeated Poplar Bluff 16-15 in Sunday's game; Sprinkles pitched for Dexter, Bacchus and Mack pitched for Poplar Bluff, 'Letty' Miller took a free pass, and Harry Crouch struck out the side after being put in to pitch

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1915-04-28

The Dexter Statesman solicited a nickname for the Dexter St. Mo. League Club, offering one year's subscription to the paper to the first person furnishing a name the club's management accepts

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1915-04-28

Jake Sharp, manager of Poplar Bluff's newly created league team, notified the league secretary Wednesday night that Poplar Bluff fans had subscribed to the $500 guarantee fund, so Poplar Bluff will field a team in the S. E. Missouri Base Ball Association this season; W. B. Hays secured business men's pledges toward…

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1915-05-07

Dexter lost the baseball opener at Sikeston, May 2, ten to nothing; Crouch of Dexter broke his thumb in practice; Umpire Wells was criticized. Other games: Cape Girardeau 5, Poplar Bluff 0; Caruthersville 7, New Madrid 2. League standing: Sikeston 1-0, Caruthersville 1-0, Dexter 0-1, Poplar Bluff 0-1, New Madrid 0-1

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1915-05-14

Beat Poplar Bluff 9-3 at Northside Park Sunday in a Dexter league game; Glore pitched with 15 strikeouts per the box score ('sixteen' per the story); Smetzer and Glore starred with the bat; umpire Grissom was replaced by Crouch

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1915-05-14

Dexter's base ball team will 'cross bats with Morehouse Sunday in that little city.'

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1915-05-14

Dexter's south-paw pitcher held Poplar Bluff to 3 runs (1 earned), striking out fifteen per the box score ('sixteen' per the story); scored 2 runs himself

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1915-05-14

Began umpiring the Dexter-Poplar Bluff game but was removed because 'his physique prevented the catcher and the audience from seeing second base and outfield'; Crouch umpired the rest

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1915-05-28

The Southeast Missouri League will henceforth consist of but four teams after Caruthersville forfeited its Sunday game to Cape Girardeau and dropped out of the league; the printed standings show Dexter at 2 wins and 2 losses

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1915-05-28

Sunday's game was played under adverse weather conditions with rain threatening to interfere throughout; Dexter scored two runs in the fourth inning and the account closes with New Madrid retired in the seventh

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1915-05-28

Dexter's ball club at Caruthersville this week to help entertain the drummers in session; two exhibition games

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1915-06-04

Won one of three games at Caruthersville, the locals winning Thursday's and Saturday's games; box scores name Dexter players Crouch, Smetzer, Miller, Norman, McGeehee, Hubbard, Sprinkles, Riggins and Venable; league meeting at Poplar Bluff dropped Dexter (and Poplar Bluff), leaving Caruthersville, Sikeston, New Madrid…

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1915-06-04

'Injustice to Dexter' item (from the Cape Republican) answers the New Madrid management's announced refusal to play at Dexter over the alleged treatment of visiting teams; the writer says the only squabble at last Sunday's game was on a decision of umpire Malone, of the Sikeston team, and contrasts it with the raw…

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1915-06-11

Dexter and Poplar Bluff ball clubs plan games on the next Sunday and on Sunday, June 20, per the Dexter vs. P. B. plan item

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1915-06-11

Wrote to the editor June 6, 1915 defending his earlier criticism of how Dexter treated visiting ball teams; New Madrid and Sikeston cited in the dispute

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1915-06-11

Played here last Sunday and Monday: Dexter won 11 to 0 Sunday; the visitor bested Dexter 1 to 3 Monday; the Jonesboro bunch are "good indians" who made friends here [date from clip_id]

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1915-06-11

Letter to the editor dated Cape Girardeau, June 6, 1915, from Harry Nater defending the Dexter baseball team and explaining the scheduling dispute with the New Madrid club

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1915-06-18

Pitched for Dexter in a 1-0 loss to Poplar Bluff last Sunday, described as the best game played on the home grounds this season and a pitcher's battle with Poplar Bluff's Shell Sprinkles

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1915-06-18

Pitched for Poplar Bluff in a 1-0 win over Dexter last Sunday in a pitcher's battle with Dexter's Cory Bachus

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1915-06-18

The Caruthersville baseball team has folded; league president S. S. Thompson hopes another team will enter to keep the league going while Dexter and New Madrid stand by their home players

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1915-06-18

Secretary of the S. E. Mo. Base-ball League (erstwhile editor of the Cape Republican), quoted in the article 'Baseball League Is On Rocks Again.'

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1915-06-25

The Dexter Federals played at Morehouse Sunday, the score being 5 to 5 in ten innings; Silton and McGee composed the battery for Dexter

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1915-06-25

It is proposed that the two 'Mother Hubbard' Baseball clubs of Dexter play a match game; Ed. Nung, manager of all kinds of ball stunts, said Bloomfield wanted to play the winners, and Geo. Munger will not be allowed to borrow Burnette Bowman's clothes for the game

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1915-07-09

Dexter took the middle game of a July 3-5 three-game home series against the St. Louis Velvets amateur club (Saturday Velvets 2, Dexter 0; Sunday Dexter 4, Velvets 2; Monday Velvets 5, Dexter 3); over 500 fans from Bloomfield, Essex and Bernie attended the Monday game

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1915-07-23

Poplar Bluff base ball management has secured Puxico and Dexter for games in this city; Manager Booker has his kid team in good condition; assistant Earl Worley booked Puxico for July 25 and Dexter for August 1

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1915-07-30

Battery for Dexter against the St. Louis Giants on Monday; the Giants won all three games (Monday 10 to 0, Wednesday 5 to 0)

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1915-07-30

Battery for Dexter against the St. Louis Giants on Monday and Tuesday; the Giants won all three games

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1915-07-30

Battery for Dexter against the St. Louis Giants on Tuesday; the Giants won all three games

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1915-07-30

Battery for Dexter against the St. Louis Giants on Wednesday; the Giants won all three games

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1915-07-30

Battery for Dexter against the St. Louis Giants on Wednesday; the Giants won all three games

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1915-08-06

Dexter beat Poplar Bluff 8 to 4 Sunday; the battery for Dexter was Venable and Smith, while Mauch and Hiter worked for Poplar Bluff; many Dexterites attended, several motor parties and many by train. (from P. B. Citizen-Democrat)

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1915-08-06

J. R. Loomis and his daughter Miss Hazel, with J. E. Pearce, J. J. Greer and Chas. Butler, motored to Dexter Tuesday in Loomis's car to witness the ball game between the Dexter team and the famous St. Louis team; the St. Louis team trimmed Dexter 8 to 0; all the party reported an enjoyable trip. (from Parma Courier)

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1915-08-20

A base ball aggregation from Dexter, not the regular Dexter nine, went to Doniphan last week, and Doniphan played up with them, the final score of 9 to 0, not a Dexter batsman reaching first base

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1915-08-27

The Paducah, Ky., ball team, which was in the K. I. T. league last year, is scheduled for three games here this week, today, tomorrow, Sunday and Monday; games start at 3 p.m.; as printed: 'miss this as you will see about the fastest ball game you'll see this season.'

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1916-03-10

S. S. Thompson, president, has called managers of the S. E. Mo. Baseball League to meet at the Cape Sunday, March 12 at 2:30 p.m. to organize for the 1916 season; B. W. Bowman got such notice Tuesday

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1916-04-21

Left-handed twirler for Dexter; pitched 17 consecutive innings as Dexter beat Poplar Bluff 3 to 0 and 4 to 2 in two consecutive games of base ball; Sisler was the other end of the battery [date from clip_id]

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1916-04-21

Pitcher for Dexter in the Poplar Bluff series; the two scores in the first game were made off of him [date from clip_id]

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1916-04-28

Left-handed twirler for the Dexter baseball team in its two-game sweep of Bluff by scores of 3-0 and 4-2; pitched 17 consecutive innings; Sisler, the other end of the battery, played a steady game

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1916-05-19

Poplar Bluff beat Dexter 10 to 5 last Friday; Pruitt started pitching and let in 8 runs in the first two innings, then Norman at short stop held Poplar Bluff to two runs the rest of the game

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1916-05-19

Dunc Steele took a bunch of baseball tryouts to Bloomfield, where Ed Nunnelee waited with players including Mayor Sloan, Sam Cobb, Bert Smith and Harry Harty; Dexter won 4 to 1

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1916-05-19

Spud MaGee is catching for Chaffee and Harold Norman is playing with Sikeston; Chaffee beat Sikeston Sunday at Chaffee

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1916-05-19

Dexter lost 10-5 to Poplar Bluff at Poplar Bluff last Friday; Norman, the Dexter short stop, relieved Pruitt in the third inning, held P. B. to two runs and hit a double, a triple and a home-run

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1916-05-19

Pruitt started for Dexter at Poplar Bluff and gave up 8 runs in the first two innings of the 10-5 loss; the coach then benched him and he took a job as manager

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1916-05-19

Spud MaGee is catching for Chaffee and Harold Norman is playing with Sikeston; Chaffee beat Sikeston Sunday at Chaffee

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1916-05-19

Harold Norman is playing with Sikeston and Spud MaGee is catching for Chaffee; Chaffee beat Sikeston Sunday at Chaffee

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1916-05-19

Dunc Steele took a bunch of base ball tryos (as printed) to Bloomfield yesterday and Dexter beat Ed Nunnelee's team 4 to 1

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1916-05-19

Ed Nunnelee's Bloomfield team, including Mayor Sloan, Sam Cobb, Bert Smith and Harry Harty, lost 4 to 1 to Dunc Steele's Dexter bunch yesterday

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1916-06-02

Umpired the Dexter 4, Bloomfield 3 baseball game; featured Lee Smyth's and Doc Sloan's batting and Ed Nunnelee's suit; Dane Steele, Carl Weber and Whiskers Pryor also named [date from clip_id]

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1916-06-23

Last Tuesday Dexter's baseball team (Southeast Missouri Sunday School League) administered a severe 17-to-9 defeat to the strong team of Campbell

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1916-07-21

The Sikeston team of the Southeast Missouri League beat the local Dexter nine 6 to 0 here; Harper of Sikeston allowed no hits for six innings

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1916-07-21

The Dexter team of the Methodist S. S. League defeated Bloomfield 6 to 0; Miller held the visitors to only a few hits and had them under control throughout

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1917-05-04

Dexter vs. Malden: last Sunday Malden's aggregation came to Dexter in triumph but left in defeat to a tune of 8 to 2. Umpire Bean; Dexter lineup Norman, Hammontree, McMullen, McGehee, Hart, Sisler, Jenkins, Pruitt, Grenzer; home runs Jenkins; 3 base hits Norman; 2 base hits Hart; singles McGehee, Sisler, Grenzer,…

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1917-05-18

'CHARLEST'N I-DEXTER I — Base Ball Club From Capital of Mississippi County Ties With Us — PRUITT PITCHES GREAT BALL': 'Sport lovers who fancy base ball had their heart's desire of a game at Northside Park last Sunday afternoon when Charleston played 9 innings 1 to 1 with Dexter. The feature of the game was Pruitt's…

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1917-06-22

Base ball Sunday: next Sunday at the new ball park west of Lee William's residence, Dexter will play their final game with Sikeston, as the Sikeston club have largely joined the military company and will be going to the army

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1917-06-29

Dexter 5, Sikeston 6 in a loosely played game at West End Park last Sunday; Sikeston team arrived by train at 1:45 p.m. and avoided Dexter's lucky eighth inning by 'murdering the moments'; only 7 innings played; the Sikeston team is breaking up as members have joined the army

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1917-06-29

Baseball series: Cape Girardeau vs Dexter July 1, 2, 3, 4 at the New West Side Park; battery for first game Pruitt pitcher, Bowman catcher; game called at 3:00 o'clock each day; manager Frank Hart

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1917-07-06

Pitched Tuesday as Dexter beat the Cape's Capahas 9 to 0 on July 3

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1917-07-06

Pitched Wednesday as Dexter beat the Capahas 4 to 0 on July 4

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1917-07-20

Named in the Business Men lineup in 'That Hot X Game' baseball game vs the Fighting Sixth; umpires Humphrey, Baxter and Moore; box score partly legible; most lineup names illegible in capture

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1920s

1920-04-30

Morris Sisler played with the Charleston baseball team Sunday against Cape Girardeau

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1920-04-30

Fleet Hammontree went to Caruthersville to play with the Charleston baseball team but no game was played

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1920-04-30

Harris Sisler played with the Charleston baseball team Sunday against Cape Girardeau

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1920-05-14

Harold Newman and Marvin Baker went to Charleston Sunday to play with Sikeston's team against Charleston; Sikeston won 6 to 5, and both Baker and Newman brought in a run

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1920-05-14

Marvin Baker went to Charleston Sunday to play with Sikeston's team against Charleston; Sikeston won 6 to 5

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1920-09-10

BASE BALL notice: Bernie vs. Sikeston at Bernie, Tuesday, September 14. "Don't miss it. It will be a great game."

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1921-02-11

Dexter teams won 3 of 4 games in past week; High school boys beat Caruthersville High 41-21 at Dexter (Weber and Doran piling up the largest totals), lost to Poplar Bluff the prior Saturday; Barton town team beat Bloomfield town team Friday; Dexter High beat Bloomfield High 25-7 Tuesday, admission 25c, door receipts…

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1921-04-08

Dexter is to have one of the best amateur baseball teams in this section of the state; the amphitheatre has been rebuilt and enlarged, the diamond put in first class shape, and the boys have had several good work-outs; no game scheduled yet but the first expected to be played next week

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1921-04-15

Pitched Sunday's game for Dexter in the 1-0 win at Malden; reported to have been signed up with a club whose name is obscured by the viewer overlay

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1921-04-15

Caught Sunday's game for Dexter in the 1-0 win at Malden; the next game is Sunday at the Dexter park against Malden

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1921-04-22

Dexter lineup for the Apr 17, 1921 game vs Malden on the Dexter diamond (Dexter won 8-4); player positions obscured by the page-viewer breadcrumb

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1921-04-22

Dexter lineup for the Apr 17, 1921 game vs Malden on the Dexter diamond (Dexter won 8-4); player positions obscured by the page-viewer breadcrumb

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1921-04-22

Dexter lineup for the Apr 17, 1921 game vs Malden on the Dexter diamond (Dexter won 8-4); player positions obscured by the page-viewer breadcrumb

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1921-04-22

Dexter lineup for the Apr 17, 1921 game vs Malden on the Dexter diamond (Dexter won 8-4); player positions obscured by the page-viewer breadcrumb

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1921-04-22

Dexter lineup for the Apr 17, 1921 game vs Malden on the Dexter diamond (Dexter won 8-4); player positions obscured by the page-viewer breadcrumb

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1921-04-22

Dexter lineup for the Apr 17, 1921 game vs Malden on the Dexter diamond (Dexter won 8-4); player positions obscured by the page-viewer breadcrumb

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1921-04-29

Dexter ball club lost its first game of the season to Poplar Bluff, 7 to 8, on Sunday, Apr 24, 1921, at Dexter; large crowd from all parts of the county attended. Poplar Bluff called it a practice game. Dudley team to visit Dexter the following Sunday.; Dexter Sunday lineup position: 3rd b (5 AB, 1 R, 3 H, 1 E)

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1921-04-29

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1921-04-29

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1921-04-29

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1921-04-29

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1921-04-29

Manager of the Dexter ball club; 'certain that Dexter will add another victory to her list' with Dudley visiting Sunday

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1921-04-29

The Essex boys came out and played baseball with the Ott boys Sunday afternoon; the game stood 12 to 3 in favor of Essex

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1921-09-16

Dexter native Elmer Miller, pitching in the Western League, relieved for Dexter in the 7th and did effective work as the Dexter ball club won two games from Poplar Bluff (10-3, 7-0)

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1921-09-16

Dexter ball club manager Bauhm brought in Elmer Miller in the 7th against Poplar Bluff; the club plays again at Dexter Sunday, Sept. 18, with Miller to pitch

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1921-10-07

The Greenwood and Pyle baseball clubs were to play Dexter here Sunday (article cut off at the page bottom; a 2-1 score fragment is unclear)

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1921-10-14

Dexter's pitcher-manager in Sunday's game against the combined Greenwood and Pyne neighborhoods, which Dexter won 13 to 11

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1921-10-14

Hurler for the combined Greenwood-Pyne team, less effective than Hammontree; Dexter scored 4 runs in the first inning

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1922-05-19

Dexter defeated Malden 1-0 in a 9-inning league baseball game at Dexter on Sunday; E. Riley walked in the seventh, advanced as Tompkins rolled out to Craig, and scored when Norman singled to right field

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1922-05-26

Former Dexter High School pitcher, now with the St. Louis Browns, struck out Babe Ruth (and Martin and Williams) in the ninth inning of the New York-St. Louis game Monday

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1922-06-16

Chaffee will play Dexter at Dexter Sunday afternoon; the Dexter battery will be Hodge and Riley, Chaffee's Rumme and Matthews

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1923-04-27

Wilson Hart was on the battery for Dexter with Spud McGehee in Dexter's 4-2 win over Malden at Williams' Park last Sunday

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1923-04-27

Spud McGehee was on the battery for Dexter with Wilson Hart in Dexter's 4-2 win over Malden at Williams' Park last Sunday

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1923-04-27

Martin, Malden's pitcher, struck out 20 of Dexter's batters in Malden's 4-2 loss at Williams' Park last Sunday

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1923-05-25

Dexter and Poplar Bluff battled to a 2-2 tie in eleven innings; named players include Ulen, Smetzer, McGehee, Halltermann, Kirby, Baynaham, Stewart, Meadows, Norman, Sisler, Hopkins and Wells

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1923-06-01

Dexter beat Malden 9-4 last Sunday at Williams Field; batteries: Dexter - Sprinkles and McGehee, Malden - Martin and Anders

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1923-06-08

Pitcher Sprinkles shut down Meadows on the mound in Dexter's eighth victory of the season

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1923-06-15

Dexter lost to Campbell 3 to 2 on Sunday; Gateley's tight pitching was undone by Dexter errors in a wet-ball game

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1923-06-29

Blaker pitched for the Dexter Masons in their 8-to-5 win over the Bloomfield Masons Thursday afternoon at Williams Field; proceeds for the Order of DeMolay; Lafey pitched for Bloomfield

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1923-07-06

Old Mr. Wilson, imported from Cape Girardeau, pitched for Bloomfield in the July 4th game at Dexter; Dexter beat Bloomfield 14 to 1

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1923-07-13

Dexter beat the Essex Merchants 9-5 last Monday; game called at the end of the first half of the eighth on account of rain; the visitors were the Southeast Missouri [Construction?] Company's team of players from Dudley, Dexter and elsewhere

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1924-03-07

Dexter girls lost their first game at the Morehouse tournament Friday, Sikeston winning 18 to 12 in the last five minutes of play; Miss Brentlinger and Miss Ulen were outstanding in their playing

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1924-03-21

Dexter Base Ball Association organized for the season with Jim Hunt as president and Homer West as secretary-treasurer; the club had $150 from the Auto Gift Association turned over, and Sam Ulen and Mason Day raised it to $300

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1924-03-21

Dexter pitcher 'Shucks' Pruett is in fine form, fanning three of the first four batters faced and giving up only one hit in the sixth to Joie Evans; fans recalled his sensational 1922 debut against Nashville

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1924-03-28

Cape Girardeau baseball club (Int. Shoe Co. B. B. Ass'n) wrote to Dexter B. B. Club secretary Homer West seeking home-and-home games, per letter dated Cape Girardeau, Feb. 24, 1924

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1924-04-04

Mac Finch of Doniphan was staging a movement for a Southeast Missouri League of Poplar Bluff, Doniphan, Dexter, Malden and Piedmont clubs

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1924-04-18

Named at second base in Dexter's lineup for the opening ball game against Kennett at Williams Park next Sunday

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1924-04-18

Named at center field in Dexter's lineup for the opening ball game against Kennett at Williams Park next Sunday

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1924-04-18

Named at short stop in Dexter's lineup for the opening ball game against Kennett at Williams Park next Sunday

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1924-04-18

Named at first base in Dexter's lineup for the opening ball game against Kennett at Williams Park next Sunday

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1924-04-18

Named as pitcher in Dexter's lineup for the opening ball game against Kennett at Williams Park next Sunday

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1924-04-18

Named as catcher in Dexter's lineup for the opening ball game against Kennett at Williams Park next Sunday

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1924-04-18

Named at left field in Dexter's lineup for the opening ball game against Kennett at Williams Park next Sunday

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1924-04-18

Named at right field in Dexter's lineup for the opening ball game against Kennett at Williams Park next Sunday

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1924-04-18

Named at third base in Dexter's lineup for the opening ball game against Kennett at Williams Park next Sunday; admission 25c and 40c

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1924-04-25

Dexter played her opener Sunday against the Kennett club, losing to the visitors 15 to 10 in a slugging match; eighteen blows off Sprinkles and Lefty Martin; Dexter lineup: J. Ulen 2B, Hammontree CF, Van Camp CF, H. Norman SS, Sisler 1B, Sprinkles P, Martin, P. E. Norman LF, Carney 3B, G. Ulen RF; Kennett lineup:…

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1924-05-02

The Dexter ball club in another slugging match won from Bloomfield here Sunday, seven to eleven; hits were plentiful for both clubs. Sprinkles pitched for Dexter (showing marked improvement), McGehee caught for Dexter, Hodge pitched for the visitors; C. O. Biggs contributed a taunting verse. Future games: May 4,…

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1924-05-09

First game of the season at Fair Grounds Park Sunday afternoon between Dexter and Sikeston; tied through the 11th inning, Dexter won in the 11th; box score lists Dexter players Ulen, Hammontree, H. Norman, McGhee, Sisler, Pritchett, Van Camp, E. Norman, Hodge and Sikeston players Chain, Dudley, Mow, Bowman, Kindred,…

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1924-05-16

Hodge pitched for Dexter in its 13-3 win over Malden

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1924-05-23

Dexter's ball club beat the Cape Internationals 12 to 1 at Fairground Park on Sunday, led by shortstop H. Norman, 'the star of his team,' with Ernest Hodge pitching fine ball; E. Norman made circus catches in left field

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1924-06-06

Hodge pitched for Dexter in the Sunday game at Malden; Dexter beat the Maldenites on their home grounds 8 to 5

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1924-06-06

Martin pitched the Friday (Memorial Day) game for Dexter against the Cairo Cubs at Dexter; Dexter won 6 to 0

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1924-06-13

The Cape Girardeau Internationals and the Bloomfield team played a nine-inning game at Fairground Park Sunday, the locals winning 5 to 3

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1924-06-13

Hodge pitched for Dexter against Sikeston Sunday at Williams Field, Dexter; Sikeston won 5 to 2 before a record crowd, the first-inning lead proving decisive

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1924-06-13

Martin pitched for Sikeston against Dexter Sunday at Williams Field (Sikeston won 5 to 2) and hit a home run

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1924-06-13

Morris Sisler, Dexter's regular first-sacker, was ill and missed the Sunday game with Sikeston

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1924-06-13

Wilcox and Heisler umpired the Dexter-Sikeston game Sunday at Williams Field

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1924-06-13

Wilcox and Heisler umpired the Dexter-Sikeston game Sunday at Williams Field

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1924-06-20

The Cape Girardeau Internationals and the Bloomfield team played a nine-inning game at Fairground Park Sunday, the locals winning 5 to 3

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1924-06-27

Dexter defeated Campbell here last Sunday 9 to 1 in a loosely played game; the last two innings were pitched by young Martin, a 17-year-old Dexter boy

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1924-06-27

Sol Hobbs, running for the Democratic nomination for county treasurer, was in Dexter last Saturday proposing a baseball game between a picked nine of the county and Herman Lufcy's all-republican nine

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1924-07-04

Hodge of Dexter got the victory in a pitchers' battle with Miller of Poplar Bluff, as Dexter beat Poplar Bluff 2-1 at Dexter

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1924-07-25

Good Game Ruined for the Locals in Last Inning — Last Sunday, fans saw a good game of ball played between Malden and Dexter here, and it was our misfortune to lose it in the latter part of the game... with a tied score of 1 to 1, two, three baggers and in all four hits told the story

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1924-08-01

DEXTER WINS FROM BLUFF — Loses to Malden in Mid-Week Game Here on 6 to 2 Count. (P. B. American.) In another hard fought ball game Dexter won again from Poplar Bluff... Sailor Boy Claud Gray just back home from the Cotton State League in Louisiana pitched great ball for Poplar Bluff and deserved to win. Hodge pitching…

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1924-08-08

Harry 'Humphry' Atherton relieved Hodge in Dexter's Sunday win over Bloomfield, holding them scoreless for two innings before giving up 7 runs in the 9th; he blamed a grasshopper he swallowed for taking the curve out of his delivery

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1924-08-08

Hodge pitched 6 innings for Dexter against Bloomfield last Sunday with the score 20 to 0 before Atherton relieved him

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1924-08-08

A. Q. Carter and C. B. Bowman took in the Malden-Sikeston baseball game at Malden last Sunday

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1924-08-08

C. B. Bowman and A. Q. Carter took in the Malden-Sikeston baseball game at Malden last Sunday

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1924-08-15

Bell City walloped the Chaffee second team 10 to 8 Sunday in a game at Bell City; Bell City collected 17 hits including extra-base swats; Dyer started for the locals and was relieved in the third inning, and Wright, who went to the hill, allowed Chaffee three hits in six and two-thirds innings

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1924-08-29

With the editor saw the Cardinals 'wipe up with New York' in St. Louis last Saturday; Sothoron went the route for St. Louis while the New Yorkers used four pitchers

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1924-09-05

Dexter trounced Vanduser in a semi-fast ball game Sunday to the tune of 3 to 1, all scores made in the first two innings; Dexter strengthened with Monk Powler behind the bat, Van Camp in right field, and Rush Smith on third

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1924-09-05

As printed, the Internationals ran in 10 runs in one inning off Hodge and won 14 to 8; Dexter mounted a late rally; named in the account: Bono, Koch, Tubby, Haman, Manager Hammontree, E. Norman, Lynch, Roy Young, Sisler, H. Norman, Monk Powler, Van Camp, Rush Smith

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1924-09-12

Cape beat Dexter Sunday at Fairground Park: the Cape Internationals staged a 10-run inning against Dexter, reversing the May 12 game in which Dexter scored 10 runs in one inning at Cape Girardeau; notes of the game continued on page 8

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1924-09-12

Cape beat Dexter Sunday; by innings: Dexter 1 2 0 3 4 5 6 7 8 9--11; Intern's 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0--14; sacrifice hits Fowler, Gangle; double play Young to Haman to Gangle; Paul Haman should have had five hits

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1925-02-20

Mason Day was elected a director of the Dexter B. B. Association at the baseball fans' meeting in the Township Building

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1925-02-20

Sam Ulen was elected a director of the Dexter B. B. Association at the baseball fans' meeting in the Township Building

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1925-02-20

Luther Brown was elected a director of the Dexter B. B. Association at the baseball fans' meeting in the Township Building

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1925-02-20

J. W. Campbell was elected a director of the Dexter B. B. Association and served as a Dexter delegate at the meeting

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1925-02-20

Russell A. Sisler was elected a director of the Dexter B. B. Association at the baseball fans' meeting in the Township Building

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1925-02-20

Bert Pruett was elected secretary-treasurer of the Dexter B. B. Association and served as a Dexter delegate at the S. E. Missouri League meeting

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1925-02-20

Thomas Kennedy was elected assistant secretary-treasurer of the Dexter B. B. Association

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1925-02-20

A. L. Hammontree was a Dexter delegate at the meeting organizing the S. E. Missouri League

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1925-02-20

H. E. Tucker was a Dexter delegate at the meeting organizing the S. E. Missouri League

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1925-03-27

Ross Dees of Bernie, president of the S. E. Missouri Baseball League, presided at the league meeting; schedule committee A. H. Burklow of Poplar Bluff and A. B. Jones of Kennett; opening games Sunday May 3, Dexter playing Poplar Bluff at Poplar Bluff and Malden playing Kennett at Kennett; Dexter promised a parade with…

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1925-03-27

J. W. Campbell was the Dexter club delegate at the S. E. Missouri Baseball League meeting

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1925-03-27

Bert Pruitt of Dexter acted for the Malden club at the S. E. Missouri Baseball League meeting

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1925-04-03

Manager J. W. Campbell informs that the first game of the season in the S. E. Missouri League for Dexter will be with Poplar Bluff in that city, Sunday, May 3; two or three exhibition games will be put on before then; the club will take the Dexter band and Campbell asks those with autos to help take the band boys to…

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1925-04-10

The Dexter High boys lost their first baseball game of the season Friday by a score of 3 to 0

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1925-04-24

Dexter beat Malden 11 to 5 at Malden last Sunday; each man in Dexter's nine got a run; Dexter's battery, Osborn, pitcher, and Wicher, catcher, each brought in two runs; Smetzer got 2 of the 5 Malden saved; Malden's battery was Potts in the box and Thomas catching; the first regular league game will be played May 3;…

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1925-04-24

Cape Girardeau and Sikeston were admitted to the Southeast Missouri League at a meeting of representatives of the six towns held at Kennett Sunday morning; present: Ed Lale (Malden), Bert Pruett (vice-president, Dexter), O. B. Heisler (Sikeston), B. G. Reuther (Cape Girardeau), W. C. Huffman (Kennett), and Harry…

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1925-05-15

Dexter lost to Kennett 5-4 last Sunday at Kennett, an error on a wild throw in the thirteenth inning giving the deciding run; Dexter got 16 hits off Berger; Hodge struck out 7 and Osborn 2 for Dexter, Berger struck out 4 and Roland 3

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1925-05-22

Dexter beat Malden 15-5 at Williams Field on Wednesday; Osborne pitched until the seventh, when Green, a new pitcher from Jonesboro, was tried; Malden used three pitchers including catcher Johnny Thomas; Sikeston plays at Dexter next Sunday

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1925-05-22

At a business meeting of the Dexter B. B. Club, Tuesday night, J. W. Campbell resigned and Chas. Weeks was elected to his place as manager of the team

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1925-06-05

The Dexter baseball team won the best game of the season last Sunday, beating Cairo in 14 innings; Dexter players named include Rollins, Lawler, Norman, Ploser, Gore, Palmplin, Wessinger, Sissler, Jackson, Ulen, Bedels, Kirby, Hodge, Hammontree, East and Nelson; the write-up is continued on page 6

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1925-06-12

Dexter's game at Cairo, continued from the June 5 issue, is reported inning by inning through the fourteenth; Dexter won in 14 innings

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1925-06-12

Cairo defeated Dexter 6-4 Sunday at Cairo in S. E. Missouri League play (line score: Dexter 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 - 4; Cairo 0 0 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 - 6); umpires Thacker and Roper

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1925-06-26

The S. E. Missouri Base Ball League officials met in Dexter Thursday afternoon with President Ross Dees in the chair; Malden and Dexter were awarded two contested games taken from Cairo over the unregistered pitcher 'Shug' Hart (who pitched as 'Smith'), and Doniphan's protest against Sikeston was sustained with the…

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1925-06-26

Played 2b for Dexter in Sunday's Southeast Missouri Base Ball League game at Dexter; Poplar Bluff won 6-3 (Poplar Bluff 11 hits, 4 errors; Dexter 3 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors)

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1925-06-26

Played 1b for Dexter in Sunday's Southeast Missouri Base Ball League game at Dexter; Poplar Bluff won 6-3 (Poplar Bluff 11 hits, 4 errors; Dexter 3 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors)

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1925-06-26

Played ss for Dexter in Sunday's Southeast Missouri Base Ball League game at Dexter; Poplar Bluff won 6-3 (Poplar Bluff 11 hits, 4 errors; Dexter 3 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors)

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1925-06-26

Played rf for Dexter in Sunday's Southeast Missouri Base Ball League game at Dexter; Poplar Bluff won 6-3 (Poplar Bluff 11 hits, 4 errors; Dexter 3 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors)

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1925-06-26

Played c for Dexter in Sunday's Southeast Missouri Base Ball League game at Dexter; Poplar Bluff won 6-3 (Poplar Bluff 11 hits, 4 errors; Dexter 3 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors)

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1925-06-26

Played 3b for Dexter in Sunday's Southeast Missouri Base Ball League game at Dexter; Poplar Bluff won 6-3 (Poplar Bluff 11 hits, 4 errors; Dexter 3 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors)

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1925-06-26

Played p for Dexter in Sunday's Southeast Missouri Base Ball League game at Dexter; Poplar Bluff won 6-3 (Poplar Bluff 11 hits, 4 errors; Dexter 3 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors)

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1925-06-26

Played cf for Dexter in Sunday's Southeast Missouri Base Ball League game at Dexter; Poplar Bluff won 6-3 (Poplar Bluff 11 hits, 4 errors; Dexter 3 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors)

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1925-06-26

Played lf for Dexter in Sunday's Southeast Missouri Base Ball League game at Dexter; Poplar Bluff won 6-3 (Poplar Bluff 11 hits, 4 errors; Dexter 3 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors)

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1925-06-26

Played lf for Dexter in Sunday's Southeast Missouri Base Ball League game at Dexter; Poplar Bluff won 6-3 (Poplar Bluff 11 hits, 4 errors; Dexter 3 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors)

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1925-06-26

Thacker was the plate umpire for Sunday's Poplar Bluff-Dexter game, which Poplar Bluff won 6-3

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1925-06-26

Hellen was the bases umpire for Sunday's Poplar Bluff-Dexter game, which Poplar Bluff won 6-3

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1925-07-03

Sunday's Southeast Missouri League results: at Poplar Bluff, Cairo 6, Poplar Bluff 5; at Doniphan, Dexter 6, Doniphan 4; at Malden, Malden 7, Cape Girardeau 3; at Sikeston, Kennett 4, Sikeston 1

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1925-07-03

Southeast Missouri League standings as printed (P-W-L-Pct): Doniphan 9-7-2-.777; Poplar Bluff 9-6-3-.666; Kennett 9-6-3-.666; Sikeston 9-6-3-.666; Malden 9-5-4-.555; Dexter 9-5-4-.555; Cairo 9-3-6-.333; Cape Girardeau 9-2-7-.222. July 4 games: Poplar Bluff at Kennett, Cape Girardeau at Doniphan, Malden at Dexter,…

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1925-07-03

J. Ulen played second base for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4, in the Southeast Missouri League

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1925-07-03

Sisler played first base for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4, in the Southeast Missouri League

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1925-07-03

H. Norman played third base for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4; shifted to third during the game and the paper notes 'This may be permanent.'

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1925-07-03

Newman played right field for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4, in the Southeast Missouri League

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1925-07-03

Nelson caught for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4, in the Southeast Missouri League

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1925-07-03

Ploger played shortstop for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4; shifted to short during the game in an infield shuffle

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1925-07-03

Hammontree played center field for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4, in the Southeast Missouri League

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1925-07-03

G. Ulen played left field for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4, in the Southeast Missouri League

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1925-07-03

Hodge pitched eight innings for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4, before Martin relieved him

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1925-07-03

Daugherty batted for Hodge in the sixth inning for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4

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1925-07-17

Dexter beat Doniphan 2-1 in ten innings Sunday afternoon here in 'one of the best games of the season'; Martin pitched 4 innings and quit with a sore arm, Hodge finishing; Dexter scored in the tenth on two Doniphan errors — Ederer, Doniphan's catcher, overthrowing second trying to catch Ploger, and McCauley's fumble;…

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1925-07-17

The Dexter Cubs beat Bernie 7-0 Sunday, a shutout in which Harry Atherton struck out 13 Bernie batsmen and allowed only 2 hits; Bernie's pitcher McGowan struck out 7 Dexter batters and allowed 5 hits, all in a bunch; the Cubs play Malden's second team here next Sunday at Williams' Field

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1925-07-17

Dexter defeated Doniphan 2-1 in ten innings at Dexter on Sunday, July 12, 1925, the winning run scoring in the 10th when Pledger stole second and third and scored on McCauley's error; line score: Doniphan 1 run, 5 hits, 5 errors; Dexter 2 runs, 11 hits, 1 error

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1925-07-17

League standings: Doniphan 12-9 .750; Malden 12-9 .750; Kennett 12-9 .750; Poplar Bluff 12-7 .583; Sikeston 12-4 .333; Dexter 12-4 .333; Cairo 12-2 .167; Charleston 12-1 .083. Sunday's results: Poplar Bluff 4 at Cairo 1; Kennett 8, Sikeston 3; Malden 10 at Charleston 0; Dexter 2, Doniphan 1. Next Sunday: Sikeston at…

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1925-07-24

Dexter defeated Charleston 6-5 in eleven innings at Charleston last Sunday, July 19, 1925, in the Southeast Missouri League; box score: Dexter 1-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-2-0-1 (6 runs), Charleston 0-0-0-2-3-0-0-0-0-0-0 (5 runs)

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1925-07-24

Dexter lost a ten-inning practice game at Malden Wednesday, July 22, 6-5; Donnell of the Malden team tried to start a fight with Graydon Ulen of Dexter, but friends interfered

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1925-07-24

The Bernie "Secons" or "Yellow Jackets" (D. E. W., manager; Capt. Bernie Jeffress; Harry Thorp) asked the Statesman to correct last week's issue: the Dexter Cubs never played the Bernie Yellow Jackets — they played Poplin, a country team four miles southwest of Bernie, and defeated them 7-0; the Yellow Jackets (5…

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1925-07-24

Next Sunday's schedule: Sikeston at Poplar Bluff, Kennett at Cairo, Doniphan at Malden, Dexter at Charleston; standings: Kennett 10-3 .769, Malden 10-3 .769, Doniphan 9-4 .692, Sikeston 8-5 .615, Poplar Bluff 7-6 .538, Dexter 5-8 .385, Cairo 2-11 .154, Charleston 1-12 .069; Cape Girardeau was dropped from the league…

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1925-07-31

Singled to center in the 1st and singled to left field in the 6th, scoring on Norman's single, in Dexter's 11-5 home win over Charleston last Sunday (July 26, 1925)

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1925-07-31

Singled to left in the 1st (stealing second) and singled to center in the 6th, scoring twice, in Dexter's 11-5 home win over Charleston

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1925-07-31

Billed 'H. Norman' in the 1st; doubled to left field in the 5th scoring Ploger and scored on Martin's triple; also scored in the 6th via a double steal, in Dexter's 11-5 home win over Charleston

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1925-07-31

Tripled to left in the 5th, Norman scoring, then scored after the catch on Nelson's fly; also took over pitching for Dexter in the 3rd, in the 11-5 home win over Charleston

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1925-07-31

Walked in the 3rd, beat out a slow roller in the 5th, singled to center in the 6th and scored on a double steal; spiked on the left foot by Charleston's Thomas in the 3rd, stopping the game until the foot was dressed and bandaged, in Dexter's 11-5 home win over Charleston

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1925-07-31

Struck out in the 2nd and 3rd, walked in the 5th, and popped to Haman in the 6th, in Dexter's 11-5 home win over Charleston

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1925-07-31

Singled to left in the 2nd, stole second and third, and scored on Smith's low throw, in Dexter's 11-5 home win over Charleston

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1925-07-31

Hit a home run to left field in the 4th, in Dexter's 11-5 home win over Charleston

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1925-07-31

Reached safely on Smith's low throw in the 2nd, Gore scoring, in Dexter's 11-5 home win over Charleston

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1925-07-31

Batted for Dexter in the 6th, out to Burns to Gangle; a Charleston player of the same surname also appears in this game (see separate row)

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1925-07-31

Struck out in the 1st and 4th, singled to left in the 3rd (scoring on Hutson's single), and doubled to right in the 6th, in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter

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1925-07-31

Flied to Gore in the 1st, struck out in the 4th, and was retired unassisted by Sisler in the 6th; his low throw in the 2nd let Francis reach safely and Gore score, in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter

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1925-07-31

Struck out in the 1st and singled to center in the 3rd, Wooten and Smith scoring, before being forced by Haman, in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter

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1925-07-31

Tripled to deep left field in the 2nd and singled to left in the 5th, but was out at the plate twice (Rollins to Nelson in the 2nd; Ploger's throw to Nelson in the 5th), in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter

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1925-07-31

Hit to Rollins in the 2nd (Haman out at the plate), stole second, and singled twice (3rd and 5th), in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter; a Dexter player of the same surname also appears in this game (see separate row)

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1925-07-31

Singled to right in the 2nd scoring Burkhart, doubled down the left field line in the 3rd scoring Haman, and rolled out to Sisler in the 5th, in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter

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1925-07-31

Struck out in the 2nd and 3rd and hit to Ploger in the 5th, whose throw to Nelson caught Haman at the plate, in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter

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1925-07-31

Thrown out by Norman in the 2nd, popped to Norman in the 3rd, and beat out a slow roller in the 6th before being doubled off first (Ulen to Sisler), in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter

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1925-07-31

Singled to left in the 3rd, stole second in the 4th, and spiked Dexter's Nelson on the left foot at the plate, stopping the game until Nelson's foot was dressed and bandaged, in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter

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1925-07-31

Played left field for Charleston in the 3rd (defensive substitution noted during Dexter's at-bat), in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter; the paper also bills a 'Sommers' in the 5th -- recorded separately as printed

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1925-07-31

Struck out in the 4th and caught Rollins' fly in the 5th for Charleston, in the 11-5 loss at Dexter; the paper also bills a 'Summers' in the 3rd -- recorded separately as printed

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1925-07-31

Playing left field for Charleston in the 6th (defensive substitution), in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter

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1925-07-31

Took over pitching for Charleston in the 5th; lined to Ulen in the 6th and was doubled off first, in Charleston's 11-5 loss at Dexter

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1925-08-07

Dexter defeated Harviell 9 to 5 on Sunday; Ulen the Dexter Cubs' backstop got three hits out of five times up

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1926-04-23

Dexter opens the baseball season May 2 hosting Sikeston; probable players include Smetzer, H. Norman, Nicholas, Caldwell, Sisler, VanCamp, G. Ulem, Hammon, E. Norman and G. Baker

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1926-04-30

Pitched a one-hit game for Dexter against Malden, losing 9-0; Dexter opens the league season at home Sunday with Sikeston at 3 o'clock

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1926-04-30

Malden battery in the 9-0 shut-out of Dexter

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1926-04-30

Malden battery in the 9-0 shut-out of Dexter

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1926-04-30

Probable Dexter pitcher in Sunday's league opener with Sikeston

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1926-04-30

Probable Dexter catcher in Sunday's league opener

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1926-04-30

Probable Dexter first baseman in Sunday's league opener

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1926-04-30

Probable Dexter second baseman in Sunday's league opener

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1926-04-30

Probable Dexter shortstop in Sunday's league opener

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1926-04-30

Probable Dexter third baseman in Sunday's league opener

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1926-04-30

Probable Dexter right fielder in Sunday's league opener

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1926-04-30

Probable Dexter center fielder in Sunday's league opener (or John F. Ulen)

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1926-04-30

Will be on Dexter's regular lineup after Sunday's game

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1926-04-30

Named in Dexter's probable lineup for the league opener

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1926-05-07

Pitched a good game for Dexter in the 7-to-4 loss to Sikeston Sunday

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1926-05-07

Of Doniphan, held Poplar Bluff to five hits in Doniphan's 8-5 Southeast Missouri League win May 2

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1926-05-07

Gave up thirteen hits in Poplar Bluff's 8-5 loss to Doniphan in the Southeast Missouri League opener

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1926-05-07

Played center field for Sikeston in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played shortstop for Sikeston in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played left field for Sikeston in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played first base for Sikeston in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played second base for Sikeston in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played third base for Sikeston in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played catcher for Sikeston in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played right field for Sikeston in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Pitched for Sikeston in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played second base for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played center field for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played third base for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played shortstop for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played first base for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played catcher for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played left field for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Pitched for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played right field for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played right field for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

Played right field for Dexter in the Sikeston-Dexter baseball game covered play by play

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1926-05-07

The boys of Dudley have organized a baseball team and have chosen Harry Litzler as manager

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1926-05-14

John Ulen led off with a triple in the eighth and scored on Smetzer's single as Dexter beat Poplar Bluff 3 to 2

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1926-05-14

Claude Gray was found on the local diamond Tuesday; while improving, he is not in condition for mound duties but is expected to be in shape Sunday

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1926-05-21

Beat Poplar Bluff 12-5 to take second place in the S. E. Mo. League; Dexter plays at Sikeston next Sunday

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1926-05-21

With Tuley, the battery for Dudley in a 4 to 0 loss at Vinson Sunday

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1926-05-21

With Litzler, the battery for Dudley in a 4 to 0 loss at Vinson Sunday

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1926-08-27

Dexter beat the Cape Girardeau Capahas 3-1 at Fairground Park on August 23, with Urban Rieck, Hally Norman and Pete Koch among the standouts

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1926-09-10

Dexter beat Cape 1-0 in Sunday baseball in a game described as a great one; Cario plays here next Sunday

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1926-09-17

Dexter beat Cairo 6-5 at Williams' Field last Sunday; Thomas was hit by a pitched ball and was still in the hospital at Cairo

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1926-09-17

Champion Commercial League team of Paducah, Ky., to play Dexter Sunday at Williams' Field; Palegrove on the mound for Dexter with Van Camp catching

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1926-09-24

Dexter beat Paducah 5-3 Sunday at Williams' Field; box score printed with H. Norman, Hammontree, Caldwell, Slater, E. Norman, Palgrove, C. Nichols, L. Nichols, Two-bits and Willis for Dexter

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1926-09-24

Dexter to host Puxico for a baseball game Sunday, September 26th; batteries for Puxico Hodge and Van Camp, for Dexter Palgrove and Thomas

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1926-11-19

Dexter defeated Bloomfield 21-13 in the Armistice Day pitched battle; Dexter line-up included Nichols, Wolf, Swinger, Annison, Thrower, Hubbard, Smith, Evans, McClard, Hagy, Vaughn; referee Haman, Cape Girardeau

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1927-02-11

Twin bill split at the Dexter gym Tuesday: Poplar Bluff Mules beat Dexter Bearcats 37-25 (Case 24 pts; Hagy 12 for Dexter); Dexter Cubs swamped Poplar Bluff Zippers 44-17 in a double-header (Hart 26, Anderson 18, Kate Maze 12). Dexter to meet Sikeston Friday; Charles Clowe to referee

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1927-04-01

A. L. Biffle of Bloomfield was selected president of the Southeast Missouri Baseball League for 1927 at the first meeting of the year, held Sunday afternoon at Dexter

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1927-04-01

Ross Dees, retiring vice president, was given a vote of thanks for two years of successful baseball during his reign and asked to be replaced this year

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1927-04-01

Morris Sisler of Dexter represented his club at the Southeast Missouri Baseball League organization meeting at Dexter

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1927-04-08

A four-team baseball circuit for this year's baseball season, made up of Poplar Bluff, Chaffee, Sikeston and Dexter, was organized at a meeting of representatives held in Dexter Sunday; the league schedule, beginning May 1, is in the hands of Secretary A. J. Baumann of this city

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1927-04-15

The Southeast Missouri Baseball League will play their opening game Sunday, May 1, with six teams in the League; Cairo and Chaffee came into the League at a meeting held at Sikeston Sunday; the teams are now Poplar Bluff, Sikeston, Dexter, Cairo, Chaffee and Cape Girardeau; the schedule will be announced later as will…

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1927-04-22

As the opening of the Southeast Missouri League season approaches, the Dexter baseball team lineup is announced: Morris Sisler 1b; Leon Nichols 2b; Jno. F. Ulen ss; Harold Norman 3b; outfield to be chosen from Chas. Nichols, Ned M. Jones, Gervis Baker, A. L. Hammontree, Graydon Ulen and Everard Norman; Nicholson of…

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1927-04-29

In a practice game here last Sunday, Malden defeated Dexter by a score of 5 to 1; three of Dexter's regulars were out of the lineup; Dexter is showing up a good lively bunch of young recruits at the practices

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1927-04-29

The Poplar Bluff ball club will hold its work-out at Dexter next Sunday, playing a practice game with Dexter, a carnival occupying the Poplar Bluff ball park; pitcher C. Greene will work the first four or five innings for the locals with Lefty Harwell working the latter part; Johnny Thomas will be on hand, with…

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1928-04-06

A. L. Biffle of Bloomfield was unanimously elected president of the reorganized Southeast Missouri baseball league at Malden; Earl Jones of Kennett vice president, C. W. Limbaugh of Sikeston secretary-treasurer; circuit Cape Girardeau, Sikeston, Malden, Kennett; home-talent rule adopted

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1928-04-13

Jones' Tigers won last Sunday's game 21-11 after the Parma aggregation failed to arrive; pitchers Trotter, Wheeler and Howell, and Jones is the team's only catcher

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1928-04-13

Jones' ball team plans to play a game at Parma as soon as an invitation is received

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1928-04-13

Trotter pitched Sunday and won the game with his baffling curves

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1928-05-04

The Dexter Travellers beat Vinson 37 to a few in Sunday's practice game; Poplar Bluff's nine comes to Dexter next Sunday, with Harwell to pitch (Howell was named erroneously on the bills)

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1928-05-11

Claimed pitching honors for the locals as Dexter beat Poplar Bluff 4-3 on Sunday; the paper calls him 'coming big league material.'

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1928-05-18

Dexter defeated Poplar Bluff 17 to 3 last Sunday; Doniphan is scheduled here next Sunday at Williams Field

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1928-05-18

Ray Thompson of Trotter smashed two home runs against the Tigers and made a catch that saved what would have been a homer; the Tigers again beat Trotter on Sunday; Frisco vs. Vinson is scheduled Sunday, May 20th at 2:00 p.m

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1928-05-25

Dexter beat the Doniphan 'Doodle-Bugs' 8 to 6; box score names Dexter players L. Nichols, Richmond, Cavens, Jones, Sisler, Myers, Lemmons and Wright, and Doniphan players Pagan, Henderson, Edered and Traw; game report by Moses G. Boyer

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1928-06-01

Charleston defeated Dexter 12 to a few ("Dexter Few(er)") in a nine-inning game at Dexter; an inning-by-inning account names Dexter players C. Nichols, Sisler, Hegquemberg, Munger, Hearnes, Zillafro, Jones, Henderson, Coates, Ulen, Oldham, Lemmons, Jackson, Owens and Brown

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1928-07-27

Virgil Crouch of Gray Ridge pitched a no-hit, no-run seven-inning game against Trotter on July 22, shortened by agreement for a double-header; Foster and M. Crouch were the hitting stars and fielding honors went to Davis and M. Crouch; Gray Ridge later lost to Blodgett 12 to 6

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1928-08-03

The Dexter Bed Bugs dropped a close game to Frisco Sunday by 6 to 3, then lost 6 to 5 to the Tigers; lineup included Thrower, W. Gaines, Mayberry, Mayhew, Turlington, Sprinkles, Taylor, C. Martin, Bland and K. Gaines; the next game is Frisco vs. Dexter Sunday, August 5th

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1928-08-10

The Frisco Tigers beat the Dexter Bedbugs Sunday in 10 innings, the score printed as 9 to 9; Bill Tippen was star pitcher for the Tigers; the Tigers will play Dimmittville Sunday, Aug. 12th

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1928-08-10

The Bed Bugs dropped another close game to the Frisco Tigers Sunday, the Tigers winning 9 to 8 in an eleven-inning game; the Bed Bugs have won 6 games and lost 3; partial line-up printed (Thrower, W. Garner, Nichols, Myers, R. Martin, Turling, C. Martin, Bland, G. Turling...)

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1928-08-17

Frisco 4, Dimmittville 5, with William Tippins pitching and Paul Stroup catching (score order as printed)

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1928-10-05

The Sophomores were victorious in the Girls' Interclass Baseball Tournament; the Junior girls defeated the Senior girls 12-10

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1928-11-02

"Lefty" Nichols, 18, son of Tom Nichols, contractor of Dexter, was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals through scout Ryan at Sikeston last week and will go south with them for a spring tryout; the second south-paw Dexter has furnished to the big leagues

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1929-02-08

Dexter shortstop signed by the St. Louis Cardinals; Mr. Bertrand Pruitt, acting for the Cardinals, got his parents' consent for him to go to the Danville, Ill., team, a farm for the Cardinals

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1929-03-22

The Dexter Aces will open the season Sunday with a game with the Frisco Tigers; they have been taking spring training; 'Smoky' Garner pitching this year and 'Hot Shot' Gaines catching; lineup: W. Garner c; R. Martin ss; G. Turlington 1f; J. Turlington ss; Thrower 1b; C. Martin 2b; Dennison cf; Nicholas rf; K. Gaines p

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1929-03-22

Max Byrd manages the newly organized 1929 Frisco baseball club (the Tigers), made up largely of the same boys as last year; the opening game of the season is Sunday, March 24, Frisco vs. Dexter at Dexter; Everett Swinger and Earl Howell were added as new players

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1929-03-29

Struck out 15 as the Dexter Aces trimmed the Frisco Tigers 22 to 11; two homers by J. Turlington and G. Turlington

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1929-04-05

The Frisco Tigers beat Trotter by the overwhelming score of 13 to 5 in a very interesting game; Frisco plays Dimmittville Sunday, April 7th, at the Frisco ball ground

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1929-04-12

Lefty Nichols has secured a berth in class C after his tryout by the Cardinals, who sent him as pitcher for the Shawnee, Oklahoma club of the Western League; his brother Leon writes he goes to the Andersonville, Indiana club

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1929-04-26

Defeated Dudley 14 to 5 Sunday; Aces made 14 runs, 17 hits, 2 errors; Dudley made 5 runs, 7 hits, 3 errors; lineup: Thrower 1b, R. Martin 3b, G. Turlington lf, J. Turlington ss, W. Gaines c, C. Martin cf, Anderson rf, 'Smokey' Gaines p, Nichols 2b; 'Smokey' Gaines struck out 13

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1929-05-03

Dexter Aces defeated the Fisk Yankees 6 to 3 last Sunday; Aces started the game off with a bang; Aces 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -- 6 10 3; Fisk 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 -- 3 8 4; batteries Aces--Gaines and Gaines, Fisk--Snider and Uley; umpires--Culley and Clark

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1929-05-10

Dexter Aces defeated the Frisco Tigers here last Sunday, 18 to 4 in favor of the Aces

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1929-05-10

The Dexter Rinkidinks beat the Shirt Factory Yankees 41-5; batteries for Rinkidinks, Hays pitcher, Hart catcher; for Yankees, Young pitcher, Brown catcher; Gene Darrell got a mashed toe

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1929-05-17

Pitcher for the Dexter Aces in their 22-12 win over Dudley last Sunday; his 6th victory with no defeats; the Aces 6-0

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1929-05-24

Trotter defeated the Frisco Tigers 11-5 at Frisco grounds Sunday, May 19; batteries: Tigers, Swinger, Tippets, Jones; Trotter, Phillips and Payne

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1929-05-24

Vinson defeated Trotter 9-5 Sunday (item arrived too late for last week); batteries: Vinson, Owens and Owens; Trotter, Phillips and Foster

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1929-05-31

The Trotter Bulldogs defeated the Frisco Tigers Sunday, May 26, 4-3, an old-fashion pitching duel between Phillips and Chalon; batteries: Tigers, Chalon & Jones; Bulldogs, Phillips & Payne

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1929-05-31

The Trotter Bulldogs scored a 6-5 victory over the Essex Pirates Sunday, May 26, after beating the Tigers in the first game; two home runs were hit; batteries: Pirates, Groves & Lankford; Bulldogs, Mayberry & Lane

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1929-05-31

Only 17 years of age; Dexter farm boy pitching for a minor league farm of the St. Louis Cardinals; blanked Meridian, a Cotton States League team, 2 to 0, with four hits, scoring both his team's runs; a southpaw

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1929-06-21

The Dexter Aces won their twelfth straight victory of the season Sunday, beating Dimmitville 8 to 4; they play the Frisco Tigers next Sunday, June 23

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1929-06-21

Sonnyboy Phillips, young northpaw, pitched the Canalou Aces to a 6-to-5 victory Sunday over the Bragg City Independent team; Canalou has lost only two games this season

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1929-06-28

Hubert "Shucks" Pruett, who recently joined Newark of the International League after being delayed at school, started off the season with two victories: 9 to 4 over Montreal and 9 to 1 over Buffalo

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1929-09-27

Dexter, 22; Pop. Bluff, 11 — Sport News: result of last Friday's baseball battle held here. It was a two-to-one result, as was the previous game when Dexter lost by a score of 44 to 22, but we were on the big end this trip. Vosloh kept up the stunt of grabbing balls from the front of the bat until a Dexter batsman…

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1929-09-27

Sport News by Billy Miller — Dexter makes uphill fight to beat Malden Lions: last Friday night the Malden Lions ball club, and a team composed of Fats and Leans of Dexter, put on a thriller at the Junior Hi diamond, Dexter winning in the tenth inning by a score of 17 to 16. C. C. Miller, Dexter veteran, performed like…

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1930s

1930-01-17

Tuesday night the Dexter Vikings lost to Bloomfield 39 to 22; the Vikings play the Sikeston Business College bunch at home Friday night

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1930-01-17

Archie Parker of Essex reports the Essex Independents have won one and lost one so far, winning one from East Prairie without their full first string, and are asking East Prairie for another game

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1930-03-28

Bunching their hits and aided by errors, the Swinger aggregation defeated the Frisco Colonels here Sunday, the first ball game of the season; score 7-4; batteries: Frisco, C. Phillips and Ridge; Swinger, Hubert M., Swinger and Everett

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1930-03-28

The Dexter Aces defeated Dudley 20 to 2 last Sunday; the second game won this year out of two starts; they play Frisco next Sunday, March 30, at Frisco

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1930-04-18

After leading for seven innings by a 3-1 margin, the Parker Bucs of Essex were defeated at Essex Sunday in a Southeast Missouri League game, New Madrid winning in the ninth on a center-field hit for a home run, Essex's only costly error. Batteries: Essex, Phillips and Bake; New Madrid, Rusty and Beard

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1930-05-09

Defeated the Vinson Nine Sunday 14 to 2; G. Ulen led hitting with three singles; a new park is being made in the McFarland Addition

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1930-05-16

Defeated Bloomfield 12 to 9 Sunday at the field; play Parma next Sunday in the McFarland addition park

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1930-06-27

Raymond Webber's double acts debut in a thrilling ball game: Vinson 14-Dexter 9, one of the most beautifully played games; batteries: for Webber, J. Ulen and Webber; for Jenkins, Dazzy Proffer and Jenkins; Dazzy Proffer struck out 7 of Webber's hardest hitters; J. Ulen struck out 17 of Jenkins' batters

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1930-07-11

Will pitch for Sikeston against the Memphis Frisco all-star team Sunday, July 13, at Fairgrounds Park, Sikeston; won the crucial 1929 season game against Osceola

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1930-07-25

The Eder Aces defeated Canalou 16 to 9 last Sunday; Gaines and Cox did the hurling for Dexter; 'Butch' Hall was the leading hitter with three triples and a double out of five trips to the plate; the Aces changed their infield, putting hard-hitting Martin on first base and shifting Poinsett to third; the Elder Aces…

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1930-08-01

Dexter lost to Malden 21-18 Tuesday night (box score printed; Glascock, scorekeeper); Monday night the Pats and Leans played six innings, the Leans winning 9-3; Essex played Dexter, Dexter winning 14-11

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1930-09-05

Mr. Clark managed the Tatum Braves, who defeated the Liberty Wildcats 12-8 on Sunday in one of the best games witnessed by the community this season

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1930-09-05

Meyer and Jones were the battery for Tatum in the 12-8 win over the Liberty Wildcats; Meyer struck out 17 and allowed only six safe hits

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1930-09-05

Pitcher Ward allowed four hits for the Parker Bucs of Essex in a 4-0 Labor Day win over the Crowder nine before a large crowd

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1930-09-05

Pitcher Butler allowed four hits for the Parker Bucs of Essex in a 4-0 Labor Day win over the Crowder nine

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1930-09-05

Pitcher Sherry gave out five hits for the Crowder nine in a 4-0 Labor Day loss to the Parker Bucs of Essex

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1930-09-05

Pitcher Hoxey gave out five hits for the Crowder nine in a 4-0 Labor Day loss to the Parker Bucs of Essex

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1930-09-05

John F. Ulen in action on the diamond; fans urged to come out and see him and Graydon Ulen, Sunday, against Bloomfield

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1930-09-05

Graydon Ulen in action on the diamond; fans urged to come out and see him and John F. Ulen, Sunday, against Bloomfield

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1930-09-12

F. Meyer pitched for the Tatum Braves against the Liberty Wildcats Sunday, striking out 16 (33 in the last two games); full Tatum lineup printed

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1930-10-24

Lyman Sprinkle describes the game from the sidelines: the Dexter Bearcats defeated Puxico 12-0 on a wet field Wednesday, Dexter's second win of the season

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1931-01-07

Beat the Sikeston Independent 49 to 35 Wednesday night, their seventh straight win; McAdam the star; lineup: McAdam, Weeks, Proffer, Miller, Sisler

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1931-01-09

Girls: Bell City 18, Dexter 23; Boys: Bell City 8, Dexter 20; at Poplar Bluff tonight; exams next week; Jan. 16 Gideon here; Jan. 23 Morehouse here; Jan. 28 orchestra program, 3 p.m., 25c; debate on pruning the orchard (Vocational Agriculture): affirmative Neal Dennison and Ranzy Hubbard won 3-2 over Joe Dennison and…

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1931-01-17

Essex, with 12 games and only one loss under Coach Milton Gehrs, leads the Stoddard county league and Saturday defeated Lutesville 36-13; the squad named. (Sikeston Standard.)

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1931-01-23

Last Friday night the Fisk teams went down before the Essex teams, the Essex girls winning 24-17 and the Essex boys 34-4; the Essex boys are now playing as well as any team in the county. (American Republic.)

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1931-02-20

The Parker Bucs beat a strong Poplar Bluff team Feb. 9 for the third time, 31 to 26; the Bucs and the Vikings have lost three games and won 10 this season; coach Milton Oehm is confident he will win two out of three of the coming tournaments: the County Tournament at Bloomfield, the Sub-District Tournament at Dexter…

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1931-03-27

The Tatum baseball team has been organized for the coming season with most of the regulars back in the line-up; ready to go the first or second Sunday in April; for games write Felix Meyer or phone 3150

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1931-04-17

The Sherry base ball club held a meeting on their diamond and re-organized for the coming season

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1931-06-14

Dexter beat the visiting Kennett team here Sunday 16-1 ("submerged ... under a barrage of base hits"); box score printed but partly illegible (Dexter batteries include Ford, Wade, Marshall, Jarrett, Lloyd, Abernathy, Kirk, Husband); Dexter journeys to Bloomfield Friday (June 19) for second meeting of the season,…

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1931-06-14

Dexter Midgets played at Dimmitville Sunday afternoon. CONFLICT: headline says "DEXTER MIDGETS LOSE TO DIMMITVILLE, 4-3" but text says the game "resulted in a victory for the 'Wild Hart' by a score of 2 to 1"; Wild Hart caught for the Midgets (first game in fourteen years); Jim Carney at third, Charles Blankenship…

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1931-06-14

Several from around Vinson attended the base ball game at Cotton Hill, south of Bernie, Sunday afternoon; the Vinson all team boys met the Alton Hill team

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1931-06-21

The Jerusalem church team, Temple's Sluggers, beat the Walnut Lane Aces 24 to 22 Sunday at Walnut Lane; batteries L. Medlin and V. Brown for Temple, Doerr and Litzler for Walnut Lane

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1931-09-11

Behind his seven-hit pitching, Charleston's revamped baseball nine beat the Poplar Bluff Red Birds 7 to 4 at Poplar Bluff on Labor Day

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1931-09-11

Red Bird short stop; the only Bluffian able to glean more than a single safety off Ault's slants

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1931-09-11

Charleston second sacker; hit the game's only extra-base hit, a double

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1931-09-11

Sikeston pitcher; lost 6-5 to Bloomfield on Sept. 8

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1931-09-11

Doniphan's ace; Neelyville fell on him in the first inning for two runs in the 10-3 Neelyville win

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1931-09-11

Dexter twirler; the most effective pitcher to operate against the Campbell team this year in Dexter's 6-0 win

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1931-09-11

Neelyville second sacker; smashed a fast curve ball over the fence for four bases in the 10-3 win over Doniphan

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1931-09-11

Steady hurling for the Fisk baseball nine, which won both its week-end and Labor Day contests

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1931-09-11

With Davis formed the All-Star battery against Snider's Fisk nine

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1931-09-11

With Robinson formed the All-Star battery against Snider's Fisk nine

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1931-09-11

Pitching for Greenville, gave the Greyhounds a total of 19 hits in the loss to the Wayne County team

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1931-09-18

Dexter beat Poplar Bluff 9 to 7 Sunday, with Nichols the winning pitcher

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1931-09-18

Led the S. E. Missouri League standings at 8 wins and 3 losses

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1931-09-18

Beat Sikeston 13-0 at Sikeston on Sept. 13; Harkins pitched a shutout for the winners. (Headline says Ripley Boys; body describes Doniphan sluggers.)

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1931-09-18

Beat the Oak Grove Giants 1-0 Sunday; Joe Sting allowed the Giants only one hit

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1931-09-18

Beat Neelyville 12 to 4 at Charleston on Sept. 14, pounding Epps and Suder for 13 safe blows

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1931-09-18

Beat the Essex bunch 16 to 5 last Saturday; Gene Nichols and Hart were the Dexter battery

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1931-09-18

Beat Campbell 17 to 5 at Bloomfield on Sept. 14 in a game with 14 errors; Knodell hit a home run

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1931-09-25

Beat the Acorn Ridge ball team 9 to 8 in the 10th inning Sunday

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1931-09-25

Dexter beat Neelyville 9 to 7 at Neelyville, Mo., Sept. 21; Dexter and Doniphan continue to hold the lead for the Southeast Missouri pennant

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1931-09-25

Southeast Missouri League club standings: Dexter 12-9-3 .750, Doniphan 12-9-3 .750, Charleston 12-8-4 .667, Neelyville 12-7-5 .632, Poplar Bluff 12-5-7 .417, Bloomfield 12-5-7 .417, Sikeston 12-4-8 .333, Campbell 12-1-11 .084

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1931-09-25

Rueall Colyer, who graduated from the local high school last spring, has been asked to report to the scouting department of the St. Louis Cardinals for a four-day tryout; the opportunity came through C. C. Kinder of the motor company

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1931-09-25

Doniphan and Dexter baseball teams are tied for the Southeast Missouri League pennant; Doniphan manager Mack Finch suggested that a playoff, if necessary, be held in Poplar Bluff

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1931-09-25

Doniphan swamped Campbell 15-1 at Doniphan, Mo., Sept. 21; Kimberlin, the local (Doniphan) pitcher, would have chalked up a no-hit, no-run game had it not been for Stephens' home run for Campbell

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1931-09-25

Bloomfield beat the Poplar Bluff Red Birds 15-13 in a wild Sunday game at Bloomfield, Sept. 21; Crouch, Bloomfield left fielder, had five hits; Altho Love took the loss for Poplar Bluff

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1931-09-25

Charleston beat Sikeston 3-1 at Charleston, Mo., Sept. 21

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1931-09-25

Fisk defeated Greenville 4-2 at Fisk, Sept. 21; Snider was the local pitcher for Fisk

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1931-10-02

Dexter lost to Sikeston 6 to 4 Sunday in the S. E. Missouri League, dropping from a tie with Charleston for the league lead; Sikeston won in the eleventh inning after Dexter tied the score in the eighth

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1931-10-02

Doniphan won from Poplar Bluff 3 to 0, Sept. 28, behind Kimberlin's pitching; Doniphan's victory places that team one game ahead of the nearest contenders for the Southeast Missouri flag

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1931-10-02

Charleston defeated Bloomfield in a hotly contested Sunday ball game, maintaining its grip on second place in the Southeast Missouri League; Knodell, Bloomfield 2nd baseman, got three-baggers to cop the hitting honors

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1931-10-02

Campbell won at Neelyville 7 to 4, Sept. 28 — Campbell's second victory of the season; the Neelyville manager said his team was crippled by some of his top-notchers going away to witness other games

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1931-10-09

Charleston defeated Dexter 9 to 3 on Sunday in Southeast Missouri League play; Dexter's league record stood at 9 wins and 5 losses

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1931-10-09

Doniphan won the Southeast Missouri League championship, defeating Bloomfield 13 to 2 in the final game of the season, and received a trophy awarded by the Leacock Sporting Goods Co

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1931-10-09

Poplar Bluff defeated Sikeston 6 to 2 on Sunday to take leadership of the second division in the league standings

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1931-10-09

Mauch and Frey of Poplar Bluff divided home run honors on Sunday's game, each getting a circuit drive

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1931-10-09

Dizzy Deane, the Cardinal farm hand pitcher, was scheduled to pitch for Dexter against Charleston on Sunday and again the following Thursday

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1931-10-09

Paul Deane, pitching for the Columbus team, was to be on the mound for Charleston against his brother Dizzy Deane on Thursday

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1931-10-09

John Epps, pitcher for the local delegation, held Sikeston to eight well scattered hits in the previous week's play

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1931-10-09

Dexter High School's Bearcats won their second consecutive victory Friday, defeating the Puxico aggregation 6 to 0; Chet Hubbard carried the ball over for the only counter in the first quarter

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1931-10-09

Maxwell Swinger was named at end for Dexter's starting lineup against Cape Girardeau, announced for the following Friday

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1931-10-16

Dexter rallied in the 9th inning to beat Bloomfield 4 to 3 in the deciding tussle, the last home game of the season for the Dexter team

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1931-10-16

Charles Snider played well for Dexter in the 40-0 loss to Cape Girardeau and was named at tackle in the starting lineup

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1931-12-25

Published standings and schedule of the S. E. Missouri Basket-Ball League: West Circuit -- Poplar Bluff 2-1, Doniphan 2-1, Bloomfield 2-1, Essex 2-1, Dexter 1-1, Malden 1-1, Parma 1-2, Fisk 0-3; East Circuit -- East Prairie 3-0, Whitewater 1-0, Vanduser 2-1, Fruitland 1-2, Fornfelt 1-2, Cape Cardinals 0-1, Advance…

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is manager of the newly organized Dexter base ball team

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as manager of the newly organized Dexter base ball team

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The Essex Pirates beat Diestadt 78-18 Tuesday night and Bridges 49-25 Friday night; Mr. and Mrs. Anderson entertained young folks after the first game, and captain Reginald Caldwell entertained the team at his parents Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Caldwell's home after the second

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Former St. Louis Browns pitcher of 1922, described as a Dexter youth whose banner year was ended by arm trouble, has been sent to the minors, with hope his 'wizard delivery will bring him back.'

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Manager J. W. Campbell, A. L. Hammontree and Mason Day were in Northeastern Arkansas Tuesday, scouting for baseball players

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Dexter beat Cairo in 14 innings in a game continued from page 1, with extra-inning scoring by Ulen, Lawler and Osborne

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Asa Pritchett has gone to the Dexter club and will play third base for the Dexter boys; the position was played last season by Homer Smetzer, who is back playing with Malden this season along with Johnny Thomas

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Company L, the local company of the 140th Infantry Missouri National Guard, defeated Company G from Bernie 20 to 8 last Sunday at Williams Park

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Ernest Hodge pitched Dexter to a 2-0 win over Poplar Bluff, allowing only two hits in a pitchers' battle with Ray Miller; Dexter plays here on June 29

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Basketball (33)

1910s

1913-12-03

Dexter and Bloomfield high school basketball teams played on the Bloomfield grounds Thanksgiving day, Bloomfield winning 21 to 9; the next night at Malden Dexter lost 56 to 3

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1915-01-07

Last Wednesday Dexter played Malden a game of basket ball, the score 19 to 13 in favor of Malden; the nearest any Dexter team has ever come to beating Malden

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1920s

1921-02-11

Twenty-four girls from the seventh and eighth grades signed up for basketball and began to practice, with Mrs. Hubbard as coach

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1921-03-04

Dexter High School girls basketball; singled out for her guarding in the 14-to-2 defeat of the Poplar Bluff High School girls, played Saturday night on the Dexter court

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1921-03-04

Dexter High School girls basketball; singled out for her guarding in the 14-to-2 defeat of the Poplar Bluff High School girls, played Saturday night on the Dexter court

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1921-03-11

Dexter forward; scored all of the Dexter girls' field goals in the loss at Poplar Bluff; one of the 'two Hill girls playing the Dexter forward positions'

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1921-03-11

Appears as small-caps header of the Baptist boys' basketball item (Baptist boys beat Poplar Bluff Christian 29-26)

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1922-01-06

Dexter defeated the Bernie five 32-26 at the Coleman Building Wednesday night; Riley, Dexter forward, scored 2 field goals and 4 free throws

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1922-01-06

Dexter defeated Bernie 32-26; Weber, Dexter forward, scored 4 field goals

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1922-01-06

Dexter defeated Bernie 32-26; Van Camp, Dexter center, scored 1 field goal

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1922-01-06

Bernie forward Thompkins scored 2 field goals and 2 free throws in the 32-26 loss to Dexter at the Coleman Building

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1922-01-06

Bernie forward McDougal scored 6 field goals and 2 free throws in the 32-26 loss to Dexter

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1922-01-06

Bernie center Jeffers scored 2 field goals in the 32-26 loss to Dexter

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1922-01-06

Bernie guard Smith scored 1 field goal in the 32-26 loss to Dexter

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1922-01-13

Hale vs. Yavard basketball at the Community Building Monday night, Yavard winning; second game 24 to 15; write-up is playful with comic player names (Dr. Mazo, Little Willie, Happy Holligan, Rip Van Winkle)

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1924-12-05

The Dexter football team beat Bloomfield 70 to 0 in the Thanksgiving game, closing a season in which Dexter outscored opponents 276 to 90; basketball season will soon open

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1926-02-26

Last Monday, some thirty boys came down from Bloomfield to battle the Dexter athletes; wrestling demonstrations and a basketball game; Concrete Hoffman pinned Jack Hardy of Bloomfield in sixty seconds; John Miller and Lester Williams proved in the heavyweight division; Wicked Dave Wicker and Speedy Letty Nichols were…

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1927-11-18

The Prater Bros. basketball team defeated Gray Ridge 24 to 11 at Gray Ridge Wednesday night, Nov. 9; Miss Edna played the fourth quarter for Gray Ridge and her floor work was a big factor despite not taking a shot; teams hope to schedule high school teams this winter

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1928-03-09

Attended the basketball tournament at the Cape Thursday

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1929-01-18

Basketball teams' trip to Bernie postponed owing to flu conditions at Bernie; instead played Alumni girls and boys at home: High School Girls 18, Alumni 10; High School Boys 24, Alumni 18; described as two of the best games played here this year with good sportsmanship shown

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1930s

1930-01-03

The Vikings, the Dexter town basketball team, lost to Bloomfield at the Dexter High Gym last Tuesday night by a score of 24 to 14

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1930-04-04

Independent basket ball team playing for Essex; this year played 21 games and lost only 1; beat town teams as Cairo, Ill., Blytheville, Ark., and most of the teams in S. E. Missouri

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1930-11-14

Mr. McAdam and Mason Poinsett are two additions to the Vikings, Dexter's independent basketball team, now practicing weekly for real games

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1930-11-28

Played Bell City at Bell City last Thursday night; the score was 18 to 20 in favor of Dexter

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1930-11-28

With Nile Hagy and Charles Bland attended a double-header basketball game between Bloomfield and Bell City Friday night at Bell City; Mr. Poinsett refereed the games

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1930-11-28

With Mason Poinsett and Charles Bland attended a double-header basketball game between Bloomfield and Bell City Friday night at Bell City; Poinsett refereed

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1930-11-28

With Mason Poinsett and Nile Hagy attended a double-header basketball game between Bloomfield and Bell City Friday night at Bell City; Poinsett refereed

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1930-11-28

Dexter's Independent basketball club played Parma Tuesday night at Parma, winning 32 to 16; plays Bloomfield next Wednesday

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1931-01-19

After eight straight wins the Dexter Vikings dropped a hectic battle to the Campbell Wasps, 37 to 32, before the largest basketball attendance ever at Campbell's new gymnasium; Vikings players named (Vaughn, Bazzell, Foreman, Wantland, Anderson, Hux); Prof. W. A. Shy of Lilbourn referee. (Campbell, Mo., Jan. 19 —…

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1931-03-05

Sub-district basketball tournament for Wayne, Ripley, Butler, and Stoddard Counties to be held at Dexter, Mo., March 5, 6, 7, 1931; ten teams shown in the bracket: Advance, Bernie, Essex, Doniphan, Bell City, Fisk, Poplar Bluff, Dexter, Bloomfield, Piedmont

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The DeMolays played Morehouse in basket ball on Wednesday

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The Fisk Cranes basketball team visited Dudley Sunday evening and were defeated by the Dudley Bulldogs by a score of 28 to 6

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The Essex Ghosts, an independent basketball team, defeated the Fornfelt Moguls last night in one of the fastest and cleanest games ever played on their floor; not a foul was called during the tilt; the Ghosts seek matches with other independent teams or any High School team in Southeast Missouri; the Sikeston Cotton…

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Football (53)

1920s

1920-10-01

Dexter boys are organizing football squads, of which Marvin Smith is trainer, assisted by Earl Grejean and Ermard Norman. Smith was athletic director and coach at Sikeston High last year, and has a fine reputation as a trainer. [Remainder obscured by Newspapers.com breadcrumb bar.]

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1926-11-05

JUNIOR HIGH WINS — the 7th and 8th grade boys of Dexter played the Essex grade boys at Essex, the first football game ever played in Essex; final score Dexter 93, Essex 0; touchdowns: Loren Cox 6, Jesse Britton 6, Charles Bland 2, James Coats 1; return game here Nov. 19th

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1926-11-05

DEXTER WINS VICTORY OVER HORNERSVILLE — lineup: H. Wolf (R. Guard), M. Anderson (Center), L. Hubbard (L. Guard), E. Thrower (L. Tackle), H. Smith (L. End), T. Evans (L. Halfback), B. Vaughn (Fullback), I. McClard (R. Halfback), N. Hagy (Quarterback); Subs: I. Williams, L. Nichols, J. I. Moore, Jr

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1926-12-03

Dexter Bearcats lost to Poplar Bluff Mules 14-0 on Thanksgiving Day before the largest crowd ever known at a Dexter football game (about 1,000 fans); the loss ended the season at seven victories and one defeat; five first-team seniors graduate

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1926-12-03

The Dexter high school football team (Bearcats) lost to the Poplar Bluff Mulef, 7-0; Superintendent Ben J. Foster's season review elsewhere: 7 games, 6 won, 1 lost

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1927-10-14

Jackson High, described as champions of all Southeast Missouri, travels to Dexter for a gridiron game against Dexter this Friday afternoon

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1928-10-05

The Dexter football team was defeated by Gideon 26-0 last Friday; Dexter plays at Morehead Friday, October 5

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1929-02-08

Of Dexter, was presented with a football sweater as a member of the Cape Indians squad at the team's annual banquet

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1930s

1930-01-17

Dexter football schedule for 1930: Sept. 26 Puxico here; Oct. 3 Matthews there; Oct. 10 Bloomfield here; Oct. 17 Malden there; Oct. 24 no game; Oct. 31 Cape Girardeau there; Nov. 7 game pending; Nov. 14 Jackson here; Nov. 21 Kennett here; Nov. 28 Poplar Bluff here

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1930-09-05

Football coach at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College; bright prospects for the Indians this year, per Director of Physical Education Conlon; arranging an early start rounding his men into shape. (Surname printed as both Flamank and Flannak.)

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1930-10-17

Dexter beat Doniphan 13-0 on the Dexter Hi grid; Lyman Springs, Doniphan halfback, left the field with a lame leg; mentioned Glenn McClard and Smith; thirteen touchdowns were not needed, the touchdowns were by a real brand of football playing

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1930-10-24

McClard picked up the ball on the Dexter 55-yard line and ran 55 yards for another touchdown; final score, Dexter 12, Puxico 0

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1930-10-24

Paul Francis, of Puxico, attended the football game here Wednesday afternoon between Dexter and Puxico

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1930-11-14

Dunklin County News (Kennett) sports writer Allan M. Hoschar's Nov. 11 comparison of Kennett and Dexter football; Dexter beat Jackson Friday; Kennett player Lloyd is out with a leg injury

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1930-11-28

Dexter football lost 40-0 to Kennett on the Kennett field; Dexter captain and quarterback Henry Glenn received an injured ankle, losing his services for the Turkey Day game with Poplar Bluff

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season; captain Neal Dennison

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

Captain of the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-09-18

On the Dexter High School football squad for the 1931 season

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1931-10-02

Dexter High School football team opened the season Friday beating Doniphan 13-0; Mush McQuary, Neal Dennison and Sixty Dodge figured in the scoring

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1931-10-09

Chet Hubbard, substitute junior fullback, carried the ball over for Dexter's only touchdown against Puxico in the first quarter; the try for the extra point failed on a bad pass

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1931-10-09

Everett Swinger of Dexter made a bad pass to Maxwell Swinger on an attempted drop kick after Dexter's touchdown against Puxico

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1931-10-16

The Dexter Bearcat football team was to play at Sikeston on Friday, with school dismissed at eight o'clock so a large delegation could watch the team in action

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1931-10-16

The Dexter High School football team lost to the Cape Girardeau eleven 40 to 0 on Friday afternoon at Dexter before a crowd estimated at five hundred

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1931-10-16

Walter Metje, backfield ace of the Cape Girardeau team, scored four of the visitors' touchdowns in the 40-0 win over Dexter

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Shooting & trap (135)

1910s

1911-08-23

High gun at the gun club shoot at Grisson's Park; only four attended; scored 46 out of 50

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1911-08-23

Scored 37 out of 50 at the gun club shoot at Grisson's Park

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1911-08-23

Scored 27 out of 50 at the gun club shoot at Grisson's Park

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1911-08-23

Scored 26 out of 50 at the gun club shoot at Grisson's Park

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1911-08-23

Scored 5 out of 15 at the gun club shoot at Grisson's Park

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1913-10-29

Won top money at the shooting match, breaking 101 birds out of 120

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1913-10-29

Won third money at the shooting match, breaking 87 birds out of 120; many shooters present from all points in this section of the state

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1913-10-29

Boss Walley of Malden took first at the gun shoot Wednesday afternoon, breaking 100 birds out of 120

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1913-10-29

Fred Lance of Kennett won second money at the gun shoot, breaking 101 birds out of 120

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1913-10-29

M. H. Osborn of Malden took third money at the gun shoot, breaking 87 birds out of 120

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1913-10-29

Won first money at the Malden gun shoot, breaking 100 birds out of 120; shooters present from all points in this section of the state

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1913-10-29

Won second money at the Malden gun shoot, breaking 101 birds out of 120 (as printed)

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1913-10-29

Won third money at the Malden gun shoot, breaking 87 birds out of 120

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1913-10-29

Won second money in the bird-shooting contest, breaking 101 birds out of 120; shooters present from all points in this section of the state

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1913-10-29

Won third money in the bird-shooting contest, breaking 87 birds out of 120

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1913-10-29

Fred Lance of Essex won second money, breaking 101 birds out of 120. (Malden Merit exchange item.)

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1913-10-29

M. H. Osborn of Malden won third money, breaking 87 birds out of 120. (Malden Merit exchange item.)

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1913-10-29

Bob Wately of Malden won first money at the Wednesday afternoon gun shoot, breaking 100 birds out of 120; twenty-one entered for ten events, but only eight were shot on account of darkness

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1913-10-29

Fred Lance of Essex won second money at the Wednesday afternoon gun shoot, breaking 101 birds out of 120

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1913-10-29

M. H. Osborn of Malden won third money at the Wednesday afternoon gun shoot, breaking 87 birds out of 120

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1920s

1920-04-30

The Bloomfield Gun Club will hold its first registered shoot on Tuesday, May 4, 1920, starting promptly at 10 o'clock a.m., consisting of nine events, one double

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1920-05-14

Of Dexter; representative of the Bloomfield Gun Club at the Southeast Missouri grand prize trap shoot at Bloomfield Tuesday; scored 101 of 135; he and the other team members go to Clarksville, Miss., Sunday for a shoot; the state shoot is to be held at Poplar Bluff

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1920-05-14

High man for Bloomfield at the Southeast Missouri grand prize trap shoot at Bloomfield Tuesday, scoring 108 of 125; Charlestown won the shoot

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1920-05-14

Representatives of the four gun clubs of Southeast Missouri (Leeper, Bloomfield, Poplar Bluff, Charleston) held a trap-shoot tournament Tuesday at the Bloomfield Club grounds; Charleston won the grand prize, a large silver cup; W. A. Steele of Charleston was high man (129 of 135), Fred Lance high for Bloomfield (108…

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1920-05-14

W. A. Steele of Charleston was high man at the Southeast Missouri trap shoot with 129 of 135 targets

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1920-05-14

Fred Lance was high for Bloomfield at the Southeast Missouri trap shoot with 108 of 125

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1920-05-14

High for Bloomfield at the Southeast Missouri trap shoot tournament, with 105 out of 125 targets

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1920-05-14

Represented Dexter at the Southeast Missouri trap shoot tournament at Bloomfield; scored 101 out of 125

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1920-05-21

Club organized; first shoot held Tuesday at the Ryan field near the old light plant. M. F. Lanoo, Bert Smith and Harry Harty: 193 shots, 113 birds. E. S. Leevings, Bob Bradford and Geo. A. Evans: 113 birds of 150. Ned M. Jones, youngest shootist, shot a 28-gauge. A. H. Thaeghof, professional representing the Peter's…

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1920-05-21

The Dexter Gun Club held its first shoot last Tuesday at the Ryan field near the old light plant; Bloomfield's three high guns (M. F. Lance, Bert Smith, Harry Harty) killed 113 birds of 159 shots; Dexter's three high guns (E. S. Leeding, Bob Bradham, Geo. A. Evans) killed 115 of 150; professional A. H. Thogtlof of…

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1920-05-21

M. F. Lance was one of Bloomfield's three high guns at the Dexter Gun Club shoot

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1920-05-21

Bert Smith was one of Bloomfield's three high guns at the Dexter Gun Club shoot

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1920-05-21

Harry Harty was one of Bloomfield's three high guns at the Dexter Gun Club shoot

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1920-05-21

E. S. Leeding was one of Dexter's three high guns at the Dexter Gun Club shoot

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1920-05-21

Bob Bradham was one of Dexter's three high guns at the Dexter Gun Club shoot

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1920-05-21

Geo. A. Evans was one of Dexter's three high guns at the Dexter Gun Club shoot

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1920-05-21

A. H. Thogtlof, a professional representing Peter's Cartridge Co., shot at the Dexter Gun Club meet

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1920-05-21

Mr. Doble shot 50 targets, 38 dead, at the Dexter Gun Club meet

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1920-05-21

Newton Boyd shot 50 targets, 30 dead, at the Dexter Gun Club meet

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1920-05-21

John Miller shot 50 targets, 16 dead, at the Dexter Gun Club meet

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1920-05-21

C. A. Miller shot 100 targets, 61 dead, at the Dexter Gun Club meet

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1920-05-21

E. H. Edwards shot 25 targets, 31 dead as printed, at the Dexter Gun Club meet

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1920-05-21

A. C. Buchanan shot 25 targets, 21 dead, at the Dexter Gun Club meet — the best percentage with Thogtlof

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1920-05-21

M. T. Minton shot 25 targets, 19 dead, at the Dexter Gun Club meet

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1920-06-04

Tuesday shoot at their field. Scores (dead birds/out of): Bex Carter 40/75, John Miller 32/50, Ned M. Jones 22/25, E. A. Edwards 22/24, Ernest Leving 43/50, Jim Howell 19/32, Marion Denson 16/25, Walter Bailey 18/25, Bassell Siner 14/25, C. A. Miller 12/25. Ernest Leving high gun; Jim Howell lead man in percentage…

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1920-06-11

Russell Day, nicknamed 'Daylite,' shot in Dexter's Gun Club shoot, killing one bird out of the first 25 shots and 9 of the second 25; the paper warned he is 'too dangerous an individual to allow to run loose around the burg.'

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1920-06-11

E. R. Loving shot 20 birds in the first 25 and 21 in the second 25 in the Dexter Gun Club shoot

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1920-06-11

Newt Boyd shot 17 birds in the first 25 and 19 in the second 25 in the Dexter Gun Club shoot

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1920-06-11

R. Bradham shot 22 birds in the first 25 and 13 in the second 25 in the Dexter Gun Club shoot

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1920-06-11

Neil Jones missed the Dexter Gun Club shoot, reported as picking blackberries or cockle-burrs instead of attending

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1920-06-11

Jehuie Miller beat Dad Charles in the Dexter Gun Club shoot, making 9 out of 20 to Dad's 7 out of 18, and got 17 birds in his own 25 shots

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1920-06-11

Dad Charles lost to Jehuie Miller in the Dexter Gun Club shoot, scoring 7 out of 18 to Miller's 9 out of 20

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1920-06-11

Uncle Marion Deason was left out of the published Dexter Gun Club score because there were none in his class and he does not shoot with infants

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1920-06-25

Scored 36 hits of 50 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 15, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 44 hits of 50 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 15, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 29 hits of 35 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 28 hits of 50 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 15, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 16 hits of 40 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 50 hits of 75 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 15, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 20 hits of 40 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 26 hits of 50 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 15, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 19 hits of 25 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 38 hits of 50 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 15, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 28 hits of 40 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 14 hits of 25 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 15, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 18 hits of 25 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 15, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 18 hits of 25 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 15, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 14 hits of 25 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 15, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 10 hits of 25 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 6 hits of 10 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 13 hits of 40 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 2 hits of 10 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 4 hits of 15 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 12 hits of 25 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 1 hits of 10 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-06-25

Scored 6 hits of 10 shots at the Dexter Gun Club shoot, Tuesday, June 22, 1920

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1920-08-13

Gun club trap shoot Tuesday (Aug. 10): twenty-five took part in two events; Bennett Rader high gun of the main event; Tuesday's Score table (Russell Sider, O. C. Burroughs and Fred Lance 49 of 51) and 25-Bird Event table (L. Fields 24 of 25; Ned M. Jones 23); Quiet Carter high gun in the 25-bird event with one miss;…

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1920-09-03

THIS WEEK'S SHOUT: trap-shooting results. Barrette Bowman is high gun of the event ('they say Bo rattled the birds like he does his personal conversation when he's talking politics'), but only high gun in the 100-bird class, as Charlie Wade and Bert Smith both made higher percentages of hits. Score table begins: C. B.…

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1920-09-10

Results of the Dexter Gun Club shoot last Tuesday (gunman / shot at / broke): Chas. Weeks 200/91; D. C. Steele 200/88; C. B. Bowman 200/86; A. Q. Carter 100/66; Dr. C. L. Craig 100/61; Bert Smith 75/67; E. R. Lenning 75/66; Fred Loar 50/43; Russell Slider 50/43; Newton Boyd 50/42; Ned M. Jones 50/28. C. R. Bowman…

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1920-09-10

Russell Sisler hit 163 birds out of 175 at Doniphan. He will be in the shoot here next Tuesday and we look for even a better score

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1920-09-24

Shot 200 birds with 87 hits at the regular weekly shoot of the Dexter Gun Club

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1920-09-24

Shot 200 birds with 86 hits at the regular weekly shoot of the Dexter Gun Club

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1920-09-24

Shot 200 birds with 84 hits at the regular weekly shoot of the Dexter Gun Club

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1920-09-24

Shot 200 birds with 80 hits at the regular weekly shoot of the Dexter Gun Club

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1920-09-24

Shot 125 birds with 70 hits at the regular weekly shoot of the Dexter Gun Club

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1920-09-24

Shot 125 birds with 68 hits at the regular weekly shoot of the Dexter Gun Club

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1920-09-24

Shot 75 birds with 54 hits at the regular weekly shoot of the Dexter Gun Club

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1920-09-24

Shot 50 birds with 47 hits at the regular weekly shoot of the Dexter Gun Club; high gun of the shoot by proportion of hits

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1920-09-24

Shot 50 birds with 11 hits at the regular weekly shoot of the Dexter Gun Club

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1920-10-01

Dexter Gun Club held two shoots the past week, one last Friday afternoon and the other at the regular hour Tuesday. In the first shoot, Friday, Mr. C. B. Bowman wants attention called to the score of Mr. Harry Harty of Bloomfield. Scores table (partially obscured): Friday's Shoot -- C. B. Bowman 44 hits out of [total…

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1920-10-01

Of Bloomfield; shot a bad record in the Dexter Gun Club's Friday shoot; Mr. Bowman said this bad record was caused by Mr. Harty having something in his eye, whether specks or smoke deposit sayeth not; Mr. Harty says his gun was off and as proof offers the fact that he left it with Mr. Leming for review and overhauling

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1920-10-15

First prize in the Gun Club's series of eight weekly shoots: 192 out of 200 (printed as '102 out of 200' with the '1' likely a typo given the 196/193 of 2nd/3rd). Friday Oct. 1 shoot: 69 hits of 75 shots. Tuesday Oct. 5 shoot: 47 of 50

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1920-10-15

Second prize: 196 out of 200. Friday Oct. 1: 74 hits of 75 shots. Holds club record for longest run without a miss: 63 birds

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1920-10-15

Third prize: 193 out of 200; tied with John Miller for third prize, Miller losing the shoot-off by two targets. Friday Oct. 1: 47 of 50. Tuesday Oct. 5: 32 of 35

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1920-10-15

Tied with Newt Bayt for third prize in the Gun Club series, losing the shoot-off by two targets. Tuesday Oct. 5 shoot: 20 of 25

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1920-10-15

Tuesday Oct. 5 shoot: 20 hits of 25 shots; noted as the dad of John Miller ('tied it up with his dad')

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1920-10-15

Friday Oct. 1 shoot: 65 hits of 75 shots

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1920-10-15

Friday Oct. 1 shoot: 58 hits of 75 shots

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1920-10-15

Tuesday Oct. 5 shoot: 65 hits of 75 shots

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1920-10-15

Friday Oct. 1 shoot: 32 hits of 50 shots

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1920-10-15

Friday Oct. 1 shoot: 22 hits of 50 shots

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1920-10-15

Friday Oct. 1 shoot: 19 hits of 50 shots

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1920-10-15

Tuesday Oct. 5 shoot: 40 hits of 50 shots

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1920-10-15

Tuesday Oct. 5 shoot: 16 hits of 25 shots

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1920-10-22

160 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

149 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

168 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

162 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

157 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

155 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

164 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

151 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

151 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

166 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

166 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

145 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

146 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

162 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

136 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1920-10-22

136 out of 175 targets at the Charleston shoot last week

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1921-02-25

Dexter Gun Club local shoot Thursday (before the Poplar Bluff meeting): 25-shot scores - Lance, F. 20 (high mark); Howell, Jas. 17; Bailey, W. 17; Day, M. 16

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1921-02-25

Dexter Gun Club local shoot Thursday: 50-shot scores - Bowman, C. R. 43 (ranked second); Sisler, R. 47; Weeks, C. H. 45; Craig, J. L. 32; Holeomb, R. 35; Weatz, V. 29

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1921-02-25

Dexter Gun Club members at the Poplar Bluff shoot, out of 150 shots: Bowman, C. R. 129; Craig, J. L. 119; Weeks, C. H. 123; Lance, F. 130; Day, J. R. (100 shots) 79; Boyden, A. E. 114; Sisler, R. 138 (high man); Graham, R. C. 129; Leming, E. 117; Enhardt, E. 112. The object of the Poplar Bluff meeting was to…

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1921-03-25

Dexter Gun Club outing on Tuesday of last week; Bowman scored 72 of 75 shots, the top score reported

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1921-03-25

Dexter Gun Club outing on Tuesday of last week; Dr. Craig scored 70 of 75 shots

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1921-03-25

Dexter Gun Club outing on Tuesday of last week; Sisler scored 47 of 50 shots

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1929-05-31

Sergeant, Co. L of Dexter; ranked as the third high individual in the 140th Infantry .22 rifle competition at Sikeston on Sunday; Co. L placed fourth

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1929-05-31

Corporal (printed Corpal), Co. B of Caruthersville; made high score in the 140th Infantry rifle competition at Sikeston; brother of J. Dinnell

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1929-05-31

Private, Co. B of Caruthersville; made high score in the 140th Infantry rifle competition at Sikeston; brother of H. Dinnell

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1929-05-31

Private, Co. B of Caruthersville; made high score in the 140th Infantry rifle competition at Sikeston

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1929-05-31

Sergeant, Co. G of Bernie; made high score in the 140th Infantry rifle competition at Sikeston

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1929-05-31

Sergeant, team captain of Co. L of Dexter in the 140th Infantry rifle competition at Sikeston; Co. L placed fourth

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1929-05-31

Sergeant, member of Co. L of Dexter in the 140th Infantry rifle competition at Sikeston

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1929-05-31

Corporal, member of Co. L of Dexter in the 140th Infantry rifle competition at Sikeston

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1929-05-31

Private, member of Co. L of Dexter in the 140th Infantry rifle competition at Sikeston

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Boxing (22)

1910s

1914-02-25

Named in the paper's boxing column among Southeast Missouri pugs who might furnish a "White Hope"; no other event stated

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1914-02-25

Named in the paper's boxing column among Southeast Missouri pugs who might furnish a "White Hope"; no other event stated

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1914-02-25

Named in the paper's boxing column among Southeast Missouri pugs who might furnish a "White Hope"; no other event stated

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1914-02-25

Named in the paper's boxing column among Southeast Missouri pugs who might furnish a "White Hope"; no other event stated

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1914-02-25

Named in the paper's boxing column among Southeast Missouri pugs who might furnish a "White Hope"; no other event stated

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1914-02-25

Named in the paper's boxing column among Southeast Missouri pugs who might furnish a "White Hope"; no other event stated

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1914-02-25

Named in a Southeast Missouri boxing note as one of the 'pugs': Bill York of Hayti, Bill Lacey and Harve Averill of Caruthersville, and new entries Frank McGuire and Fred Kies of Jackson join Charlie Walker — 'no reason why the pugs may not look with results to Southeast Missouri for their White Hope'

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1914-02-25

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1914-02-25

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1914-02-25

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1914-02-25

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1914-02-25

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1914-02-25

Named among Southeast Missouri pugilists with a chance at the 'White Hope' title; editorial says there is no reason the pugs may not look to Southeast Missouri for their 'White Hope'

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1914-02-25

Of Hayti; named among Southeast Missouri pugilists with a chance at the 'White Hope' title

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1914-02-25

Named among Southeast Missouri pugilists with a chance at the 'White Hope' title

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1914-02-25

Of Caruthersville; named among Southeast Missouri pugilists with a chance at the 'White Hope' title

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1914-02-25

Of Jackson; a new entry among Southeast Missouri pugilists with a chance at the 'White Hope' title

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1914-02-25

Of Jackson; a new entry among Southeast Missouri pugilists with a chance at the 'White Hope' title

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1917-05-04

Frank Hoe, the local ex-middleweight boxer, will meet 'Kid' Atwood for an eight round bout at the carnival here Saturday; Atwood claims to be welter-weight champion of any traveling carnival in existence, 110 fights in 1916

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1920s

1920-02-27

Ervin "Kid" Atwood, son of O. B. Atwood of Dexter, building a boxing record: Aug. 22, 1919 4-round exhibition with Frankie Burns at Great Bend, Kan., bouts with Sailor Morris, Braxton, Wolfe, Young Harris, and a Nov. 27 knockout

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1929-02-01

At their Castle Hall last Wednesday evening the Kenady-Hanks Post American Legion put on several boxing matches; Commander Max Clodfelter was the only participant who wore signs of the battle on his mug; the others fought to a draw; the Legion has 73 members and seeks 300

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1929-02-01

Named in the Legion boxing-bout write-up: the Legion was challenged but refused to fight John Bingham on account of his wife

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Golf (8)

1930s

1930-07-25

Red Barham and Ross Luton tied for low Wednesday afternoon at the Miniature Golf Course with 53 points each

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1930-07-25

Ross Luton and Red Barham tied for low Wednesday afternoon at the Miniature Golf Course with 53 points each

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1930-07-25

Mrs. Florence Dowdy was low for the women at the Miniature Golf Course with 60

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1930-07-25

Mr. and Mrs. Mac Borth and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Clowe, Jr., went to Blytheville, Ark., last Sunday where the hubbies engaged in the golf tournament with Poplar Bluff club vs. Blytheville

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1931-06-14

Poplar Bluff golfers beat Stoddard County 58-15 here Sunday at the Stoddard County course (par 74 for 18 holes), course in good condition for the round-robin match; H. Garner and E. Edleson of the Poplar Bluff club tied low at 81 each; 50 score lines printed though article says 52 players (26 per club): J. Phillips…

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1931-06-21

George Kirk of Charleston was the sensation of the opening of the Southeast Missouri golf tournament at the Poplar Bluff Country Club, shooting the course in 32, the lowest score since its construction; 143 for 36 holes with 14 birdies; he holds the 1930 district championship

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1931-09-25

Oatman of Poplar Bluff shot a record 72 for the local golf course Sunday afternoon (34 on the first nine, 38 on the second); Fred Borth of Poplar Bluff pared in the first nine holes; Morris Sisler's low score was 80

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1931-10-02

The Poplar Bluff Country Club golf sharks defeated the Dexter Country Club players 43 to 24 in the second inter-club match of the season, played Sunday afternoon on the local club course; top Dexter scorers: M. Sisler 40-41-81, A. W. Robertson 47-42-89

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Fishing (7)

1880s

1887-05-21

Base ball and fishing the amusements of town; G. W. McDavid took in a nice cat the other morning, but George Coats is the boss fisherman of town

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1910s

1910-05-19

BIGGEST BASS YET. Last Thursday night, Thomas Bryant, keeper of the Club house at Buffington, caught a bass weighing over 10 pounds. Rev. M. Grase [printed] weighed the fish himself at ten pounds, and it was re-weighed on another scales at ten pounds. It was shipped and exhibited. [Destination garbled.]

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1914-07-01

MaGhee caught all three games for the Dexter base ball nine in the Farmington-Dexter series (with Sprinkles Friday, Hill Saturday, and Baccus Sunday); Farmington won the series nine to one

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1914-07-29

Chas. A. Miller and Sam Williams brought back from a fishing trip to the club house last week a catfish which weighed 45 pounds and dressed out 38 lbs; Mrs. Williams, Miss Davidson and Rev. T. E. Smith of Bloomfield, who were of the party, testified that Sam and Charlie caught it

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1920s

1928-06-01

The Dexter Hunting & Fishing Club closed its second hawk, owl and crow-killing contest with the Odds leading at 4 p.m. yesterday by 869 to the Evens' 714; General A. Burkhart said the winners will feast at the Evens' expense

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1928-06-01

J. M. Woodard was one of the leading guns of the Evens side in the Dexter Hunting & Fishing Club contest with 333 points

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1928-06-01

J. M. Wooldard was a leading gun of the Evens side in the Dexter Hunting & Fishing Club contest with 286 points

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Bowling (5)

1910s

1917-03-16

Bob Simpson, the world's greatest hurdler and a senior at the University of Missouri, added another world's record, running the 50-yard high hurdles in 6 3-5 seconds at the Kansas City Athletic Club indoor meet; he also ran the 50-yard low hurdles in 5 3-5 seconds, holds the outdoor world's high hurdle record, tied…

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1930s

1930-03-28

The Dexter Bowling Club went to Poplar Bluff Wednesday night and lost to the locals 381 points in the end after 25 games; club: R. D. Boyer, Charles Clowe, Morris Sisler, Bruce Hart and Luther Brown; return game here next Tuesday night

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1930-04-04

Dexter bowlers avenged a drubbing at Poplar Bluff by winning at Cochran's Bowling Alley Tuesday evening; Dexter total 5655 to 4443 for the Bluff, as printed; Dexter: Boyer, L. Brown, B. Hart, C. Clowe, M. Sisler; Bluff: Bean, R. Walker, C. d'Andres, Garner, Sanner

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1931-09-18

The Gales Team took the fifth game of the series from John Mahony's speed-ball rollers on the Mahony alley Monday night

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1931-12-11

The Malden and Dexter bowling teams have been clashing on the alleys at both towns. So far the Dexter team has the edge on the Maldenites with three straight victories; on Dec. 1st the Malden team came to Dexter and met the Dexter team at the Mahoney alley (Dexter 4010, Malden 3661); at the Mahoney alley Tuesday night…

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Tennis (5)

1910s

1915-09-17

Poplar Bluff Tennis Association players Harry Barnhill and Lincoln Hendricks defeated Dexter's Hobson and Hubbard in four sets; the Dexter men hope for a return match at Dexter next Saturday

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1915-09-17

Dexter Tennis Association players Hobson and Hubbard lost in four sets to Poplar Bluff's Barnhill and Hendricks; a return match at Dexter next Saturday is hoped for

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1915-09-17

A tennis match is to be held here Saturday between Poplar Bluff and Dexter; Hobson and Miller are playing for Dexter

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1915-09-24

Stanley Hobson and Gregg Miller returned Sunday from Poplar Bluff where they played match sets of tennis Saturday and Sunday; Poplar Bluff won Saturday 3 to 0, Dexter won Sunday 3 to 1

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1930s

1930-04-18

Max West, son of Everette B. West and nephew of Postmaster Homer West of Dexter, is a tennis champion among the players of Central High School, Alhambra, California; his team won first singles, making 32 out of a possible 35 points

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Horseshoes (2)

1920s

1924-08-08

Walter Moore of Dexter tossed horseshoes with L. E. Rambo of the Poplar Bluff Horseshoe Club in Dexter last Thursday; the Dexter players gave the Bluff men a trimming

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1930s

1930-06-13

Secretary of the Southeast Missouri Horseshoe Association (of Dexter); the association's second tournament was held in Essex Wednesday, with 45 members from as far north as Farmington and south to Caruthersville, and east to Cairo; full tournament results reported elsewhere in the paper by Thomasson

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Swimming (2)

1930s

1930-09-12

H. L. Harty of this city, brother of swimmer Jack Harty of Cape Girardeau

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1930-09-12

Concern expressed among friends of Harry Harty that he will soon attempt to outdistance his brother (Jack Harty's swim)

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Track (2)

1920s

1926-04-23

Dexter is among the 25+ Southeast Missouri high schools entered in the twenty-first annual High School Athletic and Oratorical Association meet at State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau, April 23 and 24

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Undated

date unknown

His black horse Huse Hopkins won a half-mile dash at Dexter after the two-year-old Minnie shied, jumped the fence and threw her rider; neither horse nor rider seriously hurt

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Horse racing (2)

1890s

1899-08-18

Drove Crucible to win the free-for-all trot mile heats at the August 12 races (1 1)

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1899-08-18

Drove Fannie K to win the free-for-all pace mile heats at the August 12 races (1 1) in 2:36

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Hunting (1)

1930s

1930-11-14

Duncan Steele and Russell Hunt went hunting Monday and got, dint of hard hunting, 14 birds; the tale recounts how their bird dog stayed 'wet' all day, they never got but five birds for sure, and ends 'had a dog lie to us in all our young life.'

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Wrestling (1)

1920s

1926-04-09

Greek Champion wrestler to appear at the Armory Tuesday April 13 with the Dexter Athletic Club; ten bouts on the card

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Other & miscellaneous (135)

1890s

1899-08-18

Drove Dickey Dare to win the first quarter of the 3/4-mile novelty at the August 12 races; Mattie L (A. A. Jorndt) second and third

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1899-08-18

Won the running race for two-year-olds (Stoddard County horses) at the August 12 races with Hattie J (1st) in 54 3/4 seconds; also drove Mattie L to second and third in the novelty

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1910s

1913-07-02

Quoted in the 'Sporting Gossip' column addressing old man White of the Malden Merit

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1913-07-02

Editor of the Malden Merit, addressed as 'old man White' in the Sporting Gossip column

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1913-07-02

Said the Dexter boys treated the Malden boys so nicely that he told the home boys to hold up and not hurt the Dexter boys' feelings by making any more scores

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1913-07-16

The Dexter Club walloped Chaffee Sunday last 5 to 2; next Sunday they take on the strong Senath team

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1913-07-16

The Dexter Club walloped Chaffee Sunday last to the tune of 5 to 2, and next Sunday they take on the strong Senath team

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1913-08-06

The Daltons, visitors, can now lay claim to the championship of both Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas with a record of 14 wins and two losses, the acknowledged Arkansas champions; a return game may be arranged later

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1913-08-06

The Daltons claim the championship of both Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas with a record of 14 wins and two losses, upsetting Poplar Bluff's claimed ascendancy over Dexter as S. E. Mo. champions; a return game may be arranged later

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1913-08-06

The Statesman's editor writes that his desk is closed for the day and he is off to Bloomfield to play ball with John Richardson; humorous editorial item

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1913-09-10

The Pie-Eaters of Bloomfield will play a tie playoff game at the North Side park in Dexter on Wednesday, September 17 at 3:30 p.m.; admission 25 cents, ladies and school girls free, school boys 15 cents, the winner taking 60 percent and the loser 40 percent of gate receipts for their home towns' high school libraries

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1913-10-08

Dexter player in the 3-0 win over Kennett High

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1913-10-08

Dexter player whose running catch of a hot liner marked him a finer player than his dad, in the 3-0 win over Kennett High

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1913-10-08

Dexter player; speed on the basepaths in the 3-0 win over Kennett High

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1913-10-08

Dexter player; speed on the basepaths in the 3-0 win over Kennett High

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1913-10-29

On Friday and Saturday, Oct. 17 and 18, two games were played at Kennett; Dexter lost the first but won the second game

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1914-05-13

The Daltons play the Dexter team here next Sunday

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1914-05-13

Kennett plays the Dexter High school team here Friday and Saturday

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1914-05-27

The Paragould-Dexter game last Sunday ended 9 to 7 in favor of Dexter

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1914-06-03

Connected for two stations in the first game against the St. Louis O'Neills, but 'had to write home, he couldn't come' — could not return for the next game

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1914-06-03

Dexter right fielder Bowman connected for two stations (two-base hits) in the first game against the O'Neills, but Dexter could not bunch its nine hits to score

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1914-06-03

Bowman had two hits for Dexter ("connected for two stations") against the O'Neills

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1914-06-03

Chas. A. Miller's businesslike management of the Dexter club is securing games with clubs worthy of the Dexter Club steel

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1914-06-17

Dexter's club took both games from the Nebraska Indians here, scores 4 to 2 and 1 to 0

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1914-07-01

Bragg, Farmington first baseman, had two base hits in Sunday's game against Dexter

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1914-07-01

Curran, Farmington center fielder, went 4 at-bats with 0 runs and 2 hits in Sunday's game

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1914-07-01

Hoelsher, Farmington second baseman, went 4 at-bats with 0 runs and 0 hits in Sunday's game

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1914-07-01

Taylor, Farmington left fielder, went 3 at-bats with 0 runs and 0 hits in Sunday's game

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1914-07-01

Croake, Farmington right fielder, went 3 at-bats with 0 runs and 0 hits in Sunday's game

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1914-07-22

Former Cardinal and Milwaukee star heads the Field-Lippman team of St. Louis, which plays in Dexter Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 24th-26th

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1914-07-29

Of Dexter; high man out of 34 contestants from all over the South at the shooting contest at Paragould July 14, scoring 306 out of 320 birds and taking the gold medal, now dangling from his watch chain; official score table of all contestants printed

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1914-07-29

Came over Friday evening and shot a few clay pigeons

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1914-07-29

Ernest Leming of Dexter was high gun out of 34 contestants from all over the South in the shooting contest at Paragould, July 14, scoring 306 out of 320 birds and taking the gold medal

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1914-10-14

Dudley beat Pinhook on Sunday 11 to something less (score partly illegible)

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1914-10-14

Dexter took two games from the Highs at New Madrid: Friday Miller pulverized them 5 to 4, and Saturday Sitton sat on them in a hitless game, 7 to 2

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1915-04-28

Published a twenty-week schedule of games (May 2 to Sept. 12); Dexter opens the season at Sikeston May 2 and closes at home against Sikeston; member clubs include Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff, Sikeston, Caruthersville, New Madrid and Dexter

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1915-05-14

Says the Dexter club should be called the 'Holcombsmiths,' in honor of the men at the head

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1915-05-28

Sikeston to play Dexter at the Northside Park Sunday afternoon; Polly expected at short again

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1915-06-11

Poplar Bluff to play Dexter at Northside park Sunday; Petty to play at short for Dexter [date from clip_id]

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1915-09-24

Dexter played Puxico a game of ball last Sunday, 8 to 2 in favor of Dexter; Sitton and Hubbard did the mound work and MaGee on first

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1916-04-21

Ray E. Sitton, spit ball artist of the Dexter team, returned from Arkansas, Saturday [date from clip_id]

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1916-06-16

Jake and Geo. Fritz matched their horse Post Boy against Chas. Bishop in a race to be run at Campbell the 24th of this month; Chas. Bishop was once owned by John Owens [date from clip_id]

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1916-06-23

Kennett played Bloomfield at Kennett, the score being 3 to 2 in favor of Kennett; next Tuesday Dexter plays Bloomfield at Bloomfield

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1917-05-11

The Dexter team will cross bats with the strong team from Charleston at North Side Park next Sunday afternoon. 'Be sure you will see a fast game.'

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1917-06-29

The Cape Capahas are billed here for games July 1, 2, 3, and 4th; Manager Hart has gone to no small expense to get these fine games

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1920s

1920-04-09

Dexter and Bloomfield trap-shooters opened the season; newcomer Bob Bradham, a barber, joined the old band. Saturday's scores at Bloomfield were printed as Hoyt 24, Lanning 35, Bradham 25 and Fields 31 out of 30 as printed; Monday's scores and the Dexter-Bloomfield team score were cut off in the view

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1920-04-16

Fleet Hannebrink went over to Sikeston Sunday and played center field with Sikeston against Charleston; 'the score, owing to Fleet being present, was 6 to 4 in favor of Sikeston.'

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1920-04-30

Fleet Hammontree went to Caruthersville to play with them but no game

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1920-05-14

E. S. Leming of Dexter is one of the Bloomfield Club's representatives and will be with the teams at Clarkton, Mo., Sunday

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1920-05-21

Harry Harty, Fred Lance and Bert Smith of Bloomfield were here Tuesday en route to Charleston to attend the shoot there; Dexter representatives Lenzing, Beakharn, et al, went over Wednesday

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1920-05-21

Ned M. Jones, Dexter's youngest shootist, with his 20-gauge shows a bright future in the sport

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1920-05-21

Harry Harty, Fred Lance and Bert Smith of Bloomfield were here Tuesday en route to Charleston to attend the shoot there

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1920-05-21

Fred Lance of Bloomfield went to Charleston Tuesday for the shoot with Harry Harty and Bert Smith

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1920-05-21

Bert Smith of Bloomfield went to Charleston Tuesday for the shoot with Harry Harty and Fred Lance

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1920-05-21

Dexter representatives Leeding and Bradham went over to Charleston Wednesday for the shoot

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1920-05-21

Bob Bradham went to Charleston Wednesday for the shoot with Leeding

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1920-07-16

Played ball with the Campbell club last week; participated in six games during the week

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1920-09-10

Don't fail to see the game between Sikeston and Bernie at Bernie next Tuesday, September 14

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1920-10-15

Friday Oct. 1 shoot: 60 of 75. Tuesday Oct. 5 shoot: 56 of 75

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1920-10-15

Friday Oct. 1 shoot: 46 of 75. Tuesday Oct. 5 shoot: 49 of 75

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1920-10-15

Friday Oct. 1 shoot: 48 of 50. Tuesday Oct. 5 shoot: 21 of 25

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1920-10-15

Paper jokes that 'Really Quiet Carter has run longer with not a miss, that is, sometimes years, but the record is for BIRDS, not CHICKENS.'

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1920-10-22

Led the locals in the Charleston shoot last week; no score printed for him in the list

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1920-10-22

Printed 'Russell and Morris Sider tied' - corresponds to H. Sider 151 and M. Sider 151 in the score list

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1920-10-22

Tied with Russell in the narrative; M. Sider scored 151 in the list

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1920-10-22

'Weeks and Steele following in order'; Weeks scored 160 in the list

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1920-10-22

Steele scored 149 in the list

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1920-10-22

Doc Craig bested Ernie Leising in the scores

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1920-10-22

Bested by Doc Craig in the scores

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1921-03-11

Played 'a fast last half'; mentioned alongside Poplar Bluff guards Mary Rance and Camilla Graham

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1921-04-15

Scored Dexter's only run in the 1-0 season-opening win at Malden on Sunday (Apr 10, 1921); described as 'the twirler for the local bunch'; named with Wilson Hart as the club's main hurlers for the coming season

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1921-04-15

Dexter outfielder; threw a Malden runner out at home plate to preserve the 1-0 win at Malden

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1921-04-15

Named with Guy as the Dexter club's main hurlers for the coming season

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1921-10-14

Did extra ordinary work in Dexter's 13-11 win over the combined Greenwood-Pyne Sunday team

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1922-01-06

Two players named Wedel played guard for Dexter in the 32-26 win over Bernie at the Coleman Building (individual stats partially legible)

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1922-01-06

Bernie guard Hopkins was scoreless in the 32-26 loss to Dexter

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1923-06-08

Ulen got a clean hit through second base and scored in Dexter's game against Meadows

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1923-07-13

The Dexter team beat the S. E. Mo. A. A. team at Williams Field last Sunday by the decisive score of 9 to [final digit illegible]

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1924-06-13

Pritchett, who had been holding down third for Dexter, left to play with the Malden team before the Sunday game with Sikeston

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1924-08-08

Dale Blankenship and party took in the Sikeston-Malden game at Malden Sunday

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1925-04-10

Malden's crack team will play Dexter here on the home grounds next Sunday afternoon; look for a hot game

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1925-07-03

Martin relieved Hodge and finished the game for Dexter in the Sunday, June 28 win at Doniphan, 6-4; the paper says he 'made a lovely finish of the slaughter.'

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1925-07-17

The Dexter-New Madrid game here Wednesday ended 22 to 9 in favor of New Madrid

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1925-07-24

To keep the first team in fighting trim, Manager Campbell wants to schedule week-day games against New Madrid, Newport, and other nearby teams, but each game costs about $160 net and must be covered at the gate, which the club's exchequer cannot stand; fans are urged to attend week-day games when announced

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1926-04-09

Dexter Athletic Club boy who appeared in the successful athletic show at the local Armory, with Kermit Smith, Johnny Burke, Ruddy Hill, Dutch Vaughn, Lefty Nichols, Fireman Burke and Concrete Hoffman

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1926-08-27

Next Sunday, Dexter closes the season with a game in which Cape Girardeau will be the enemy

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1926-09-17

Down from St. Louis Sunday to play with Dexter against Cairo

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1927-10-14

Dexter High School and its alumni played to a scoreless 0-0 tie on neutral grounds last Friday; quartered on neutral grounds, neither team scored

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1929-02-08

Dexter's southpaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Nichols, was drafted by a Cardinal scout a few weeks before his brother Leon was signed

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1929-03-22

Everett Swinger and Earl Howell were added as new players to the Frisco Tigers' line-up for the 1929 season and are expected to be good material for the team

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1929-03-29

Teams desiring games with the Aces should see Andy Thrower at the White Way Barber Shop

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1929-05-17

Hard-hitting right fielder for the Dexter Aces, starred at bat with 3 singles and 2 doubles in 5 at-bats in the 22-12 win over Dudley

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1929-06-28

The Dexter Aces humbled the Frisco Tigers 26 to 4 with 34 hits; "Smoke" Gaines kept the Tigers scattered; the Aces go to Dimmittville Sunday, June 30

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1929-11-15

partial-page screenshot; 'Corning-Dexter Naughty-Naughty. By Billy (Himself) Miller': Last Friday the Dexter Bearcats met the Corning, Ark., eleven; hard fight by both teams, final score 6 to 0 in favor of Dexter. 'Slick' Cox was Dexter's outstanding player. Mr. Miller bought the entire squad their supper

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1930s

1930-07-25

The Poplar Bluff night-ball players have asked Dexter for a game and the challenge is accepted: 'Don't let their challenge go unanswered. Take 'em on.'

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1930-09-05

Twirler Butler is expected to start for the Parker Bucs against Bloomfield here Sunday, Sept. 7th; the game starts at 2:30 sharp

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1930-09-12

Manager Clark's Tatum nine goes to Trotter Sunday, Sept. 14 (Tatum Braves item)

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1930-09-12

Nettis Tramell played ball at Sugar Tree, Sunday

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1930-09-12

Jack Harty, Cape Girardeau resident and brother of H. L. Harty of this city, Monday swam the Mississippi river at Cape Girardeau, about 40 minutes for nearly three miles

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1931-01-02

Junior High boys vs 'Freshies' tie 15-15 Friday afternoon

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1931-01-23

The Parker Bucs of Essex have played 8 games and lost 1, have played Whitewater at Essex and East Prairie at Essex, play Holcomb next Monday, the Dexter Vikings Feb. 11 and return to Essex Feb. 25

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1931-09-11

Dexter twirler in Sunday's 9-5 loss to Doniphan; the visitors obtained 8 hits off his deliveries

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1931-09-11

Went the entire distance for the Red Birds and accounted for 8 strikeouts in the 7-4 loss to Charleston

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1931-09-11

Chalked up two 3-baggers for Bloomfield in the 6-5 win over Sikeston, one bringing in a loaded base circuit

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1931-09-11

Retired in favor of Tom Niel, who had previously been playing at second, in the Doniphan-Neelyville game

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1931-09-11

Finished the game at second in Niel's place for Doniphan

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1931-09-11

One of only two Campbell batsmen able to connect with safeties against Nichols

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1931-09-11

One of only two Campbell batsmen able to connect with safeties against Nichols

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1931-09-11

Neelyville first bagger; three singles out of 4 trials in the 10-3 win over Doniphan

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1931-10-02

Dexter Bearcats coach Norman expects four players will miss Friday's game at Puxico with injuries: Sixty Dodge, Joe Dennison, Neal Dennison, and Mush McQuary

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1931-10-02

Sunday's results: Sikeston 6, Dexter 4; Doniphan 3, Poplar Bluff 0; Campbell 7, Neelyville 4; Charleston 4, Bloomfield 3. Club standings: Doniphan 13-10-3, Dexter 13-9-4, Charleston 13-9-4, Neelyville 13-7-6, Poplar Bluff 13-5-8, Bloomfield 13-5-8, Sikeston 13-5-8, Campbell 13-2-11. Next Sunday: Sikeston at Poplar…

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1931-10-09

Mack Finch, manager of the Doniphan championship squad, noted that in the last three games Doniphan had scored 44 runs on 41 hits

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1931-10-09

Doniphan's new twirler Harry Kimberlin had 49 strikeouts to his credit and an excellent batting average

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1931-10-09

Damron, star backfield ace of the Puxico team, ripped the Dexter line into shreds time after time in the second half of the 6-0 loss to Dexter

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1931-10-09

Dodge, half-back for the Dexter warriors, was removed by the officials in the third quarter of the Puxico game for unnecessary rough play

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1931-10-09

Joe Dennison was among the Dexter players suffering from injuries the previous week but the team was to enter the Cape Girardeau contest free from all injuries

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1931-10-09

Neal Dennison was among the Dexter players suffering from injuries the previous week

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1931-10-09

Oscar Dodge was among the Dexter players suffering from injuries the previous week

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1931-10-09

William McCarty was among the Dexter players suffering from injuries the previous week

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1931-10-09

Neelyville called off the final game of the Southeast Missouri Loop at Campbell on Oct. 5 after its athletes failed to arrive, forfeiting the contest to Campbell

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1931-10-16

E. Hope played well for Dexter at center in the 40-0 loss to Cape Girardeau

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1931-10-16

Nanson played well for Dexter in the 40-0 loss to Cape Girardeau

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1931-10-16

McQuary, Dexter fullback, played an excellent defensive game in the 40-0 loss to Cape Girardeau

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1931-12-11

The Dexter Vikings, displaying a fast passing attack and a stonewall defense, crushed the visiting Parma Independents Tuesday night, to the tune of 39-11

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1931-12-11

Nile Hagy, guard and co-captain of the Dexter Vikings, suffered a bad sprain of his left ankle that will doubtlessly keep him out of the game for a month or more

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1931-12-18

The Dexter High School hoopsters open the season tonight against the Bell City Bearcats; probable starting line-up: Grundy Turlington and Buford Cox at guards, Dallas Daniel and Harold Swinger at forwards, Hardiman Nanson at center; the Dexter girls' team has scrimmaged the Alumni with Elsa Shearon and Ruth Barton…

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1931-12-25

The Dexter Bowlers lost two close contests this week to the Malden aggregation: Monday night the Malden boys came to Dexter and won by only 60 points in the 5-game match; Tuesday night the Dexter boys went to Malden and lost by 189 points; Dexter scores: VanCamp 718, Boyer 822, Day 612, Mahoney 742, Burkhart 863,…

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Undated

date unknown

Attraction Extraordinary — Manager Frank Hart has just completed arrangements with the agent of the American Athletic Girls to play an exhibition game here on Tuesday July 17 against the local boys. At William's Westside Park. Game called at 3 p.m. Admission 15 and 25 cents

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The boys of Company H, Sixth Mo. Regiment, crossed bats with Dexter's Business men, yesterday, defeating them 13 to 7

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In the Dexter-Malden game account (continued from page 1), Malden scored 2 runs in the 7th and 4 in the 9th while Dexter went scoreless; Dexter names include J. Ulen, Pritchett, Sisler, Newman, H. Norman, Hammontree, Ploger, G. Ulen, E. Norman and Hodge; Malden names include Taylor, Rebecca, Mow, Tinkoff, Donnell,…

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Dexter Troop No. 1 beat the Bloomfield Scouts under Scoutmaster Porter; Patrol Leader Moore plays a regular Red Grange game

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Bloomfield Scoutmaster whose troop lost to Dexter Troop No. 1, returning to the northern headquarters with only three scalps

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Ray Wood Dove of Champaign, Ill., is attending college this year and has won state-wide fame as the champion of Illinois in the one-mile relay races, his record at present being 4.32 per mile; he was a Sunday visitor at the home of T. C. Dove

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His bay trotter Crucible won a $10-a-side match race (best two in three) against Mike Toole's black mare at the Dexter fair grounds Saturday, in two straight heats

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His black mare lost a $10-a-side match race to John A. Bay's Crucible at Dexter

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