LOG OF NEWS FROM SANTA MONICA NEWSPAPERS

1906

10/19

	"LOCALS WILL PLAY OLIVES

	"Baseball Club Will Lose
	Several Members but May
	Still Play 'Record'

  "One of the biggest baseball games for the local club is scheduled for next
Sunday afternoon.  This is the match with the Olives.
  "The Olives are the 1906 champion team of Orange county, and are said to be
top-notch players.  The local team has put up good ball, has defeated the
Alhambras, the Los Angeles county pennant-winners, and other first-class teams,
and is ready and willing to give a good account of itself next Sunday against
the Orange champions.
  "The game will be played as usual on the Nevada avenue polo grounds..."
[Nevada Ave can't be located on a current map of Santa Monica, or even of West
Los Angeles, so has either ceased to exist or has been renamed.  The article
continued, discussing a game scheduled the following Sunday for Santa Monica
vs. the "Record Newsies", apparently sponsored by the L.A. Record.]

10/22

	"COULDN'T MAKE A MEAL
	OF OLIVES

  "The Santa Monica baseball team went out on the polo grounds yesterday to
make a meal of the Olives, the champions of Orange county, but the 'champs'
were too much for them, and it was the other way around.
  "After the smoke of battle cleared away, and the fatalities were counted, it
was found that the visitors had nine, with only a round goose-egg for the home
team."

[The L.A. Record gave the score of this game as 7-0 in its 10/22 edition, but
had no article or details whatsoever.]
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1924

10/31, a front page article:

	"Relatives Gather to
	    Meet Johnson

  "Showing that the interest in the great old American game of baseball is
attractive to persons of all ages, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Perry of Twenty-Fourth
street, Santa Monica, today are at Brea bowl watching their grandson, Walter
Johnson, idol of the Washington team, entertain friends of the same district in
which as a boy-comer he taught opposing teams the finer points of the game.
  "Mr. Perry is 82 years of age and Mrs. Perry is 72.  [According to family
history information, they were 81 and 74 at the time.]  They entertained Walter
Johnson and his wife at their Santa Monica home yesterday.  Grandfather Perry
and his wife were taken to today's game by a son, George Perry, and his wife.
Mr. and Mrs.  Clint Perry of Venice are also watching the favored nephew fling
the horsehide."  [Did Sam Carey take the day off from Armacost Nursery to go to
the game?  Did Dave Carey cut classes at Santa Monica HS to go?]

There was no news of the game itself, most of the sports coverage being given
to the big football game played on 10/31 between Santa Monica and Venice High
Schools before 7,000 spectators.

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	THE NEWS SOURCE:

	The Santa Monica newspaper was known as the Daily Outlook in
	1906; by 1924 it was the Evening Outlook.  It was published
	daily except Sunday.