Most Sensational Baseball Feat Ever Attempted in Virginia -- August 25, 2024

Lynchburg News and Advance, 24-August-1924

Miss Mabel Cody, pioneering barnstorming aviator and wing walker, appeared at a baseball game between the Louisville club and Pepsi-Cola of Richmond. Miss Cody stood on the wing of her biplane and dropped a dozen baseballs. Any player who caught a ball received a ten dollar gold piece. 

The Pepsi-Cola team was unable to appear, but a team from Danville filled in. Lynchburg won 15-0. 

The Greatest Clown Rider on Earth -- August 11, 2022

Ogden Standard-Examiner, 27-August-1922

100 years ago this month, the Sells-Floto Circus and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show came to Ogden, Utah. Poodles Hanneford, "The Greatest Clown Rider on Earth." In 1923, he began appearing in short comedies. He played bit parts and cameos in sound films and television programs until the early 1960s.