Across
- 5. What professional baseball player for the Pittsburgh team, joined the YMCA in 1887?
- 9. What sport became fashionable among the middle-class urbanities in the 1890's?
- 10. What did the most notorious gang in chicago change their name to in 1908?
- 11. What boxer was known as the "Michigan Assassin" and won the middleweight championship in 1908?
- 12. What company helped organize the American Bowling Congress in 1895, standardizing rules and equipment?
- 14. What kind of courts did some saloons include in bowling alleys or adjacent poolhalls?
Down
- 1. What was the third league introduced in baseball aspired to share the profits of the national game?
- 2. What sport attracted boys and young men engaged in tough urban street life?
- 3. Ban johnson, President of the Western League, renamed it to the ____ League in 1901?
- 4. What weight class did Abe Attell conquer from 1901 to 1912?
- 6. Who was a cofounder of the American League and was granted the Philadelphia Athletics franchise which he owned and managed until 1950?
- 7. What league in Baseball expanded from 13 leagues in 1901 to 46 in 1912?
- 8. Pete Herman suffered only one knockout during his boxing career, but the accumulation of blows to his head caused what?
- 13. By 1909, half of the taverns in what city featured in billiard tables?