Flood in Ohio caused loss of $2,000.-
000 5 persons drowned.
AUGUST.
Cloudburst at Erie, Pa., caused a loss
of $6,000,000 75 deaths.
Vesuvius, Etna and Stromboli, the
Italian volcanoes, became active.
Tropical hurricane flooded Galveston
with waters of the gulf other points
on the coast invaded. Loss estimated
at $30,000,000 and deaths upward of 300,
with many missing.
Frost in the middle west.
SEPTEMBER.
25.
Temperature 88 in New York hottest
Sept. 15 on record.
Gulf hurricane struck Louisiana coast:
deaths estimated about 550.
NOVEMBER.
42 persons killed and injured by wind
storm at Hot Springs, Ark.
I FIELD OF SPORTS. I
APRIL.
5. Jess Willard
defeated Jack
Johnson in 25
rounds at Ha-
vana, Cuba.
14. League baseball
season opened.
JUNE.
5. Walter J. Travis
won his fourth
Metropolitan golf
championship,
defeating J. G.
Anderson 2 up in
the final, at Rye,
N. Y..
12. Women's nation-
al tennis cham-
pionship won by
Molla Bjurstedt
at Philadelphia.
Score, 46, 62, 60,
18. Jerome D. Travers, noted amateur,
won title of open golf championship
of the United States, defeating Mc
Namara, at Baltusrol, N. J.
25. Yale defeated Harvard in the varsity
races at New Haven, winning all var
sity, freshman and second varsity
events.
28. Cornell won the varsity race at
Poughkeepsie, with Leland Stanford
second time, 20:36 3-5 also junior race,
in 10:001-5, with Pennsylvania second.
Syracuse won the freshman race in
9:29 3-5, with Cornell second.
JULY.
18. Norman S. Taber of Boston made a
new world's one mile run record at
Cambridge time 4 minutes 12 3-5 sec
onds.
SEPTEMBER.
4. Amateur golf championship of the
United States won by Robert A. Gard
ner of Chicago, who defeated John G.
Anderson of Mount Vernon, N. Y., 5
up and 4 to play, at Detroit.
