Talk:Bradley Walker

Good collaboration
Hi, MisterCake, I have enjoyed working on Bradley Walker with you. I need some help— the part about the "track meet at Vandy", "the all-around athlete medal" and the "boxing champ"(citations needed) are from an old clipping I found HERE. As you can see, there is no source or date for either article. The first one is by "Pete Ezell" and says "another of a series on past athletic greats in Nashville". Can you help me track this down and solve the mystery? No luck in scouring the Tennessean. I will delete the statements if I can't verify. Best regards,--Eagledj (talk) 14:38, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your recent work. That source is a very interesting one. I've cited clippings without titles before, but without a date or a paper it is very hard to allow it here. Perhaps it was the Nashville Banner. There are traditionally three papers of old Nashville - the Tennessean, the American, and the Banner. All were eventually subsumed under the Tennessean, and as a result newspapers.com acts like all three are the same paper, and so on dates with two or more newspapers in Nashville, it only carries one of them, whichever one it is, and it calls it the Tennessean - so it is worth checking the top of the page before you cite a Nashville paper. I looked through Corks and Curls, the UVA yearbook, which has the picture of the 1901 football team, to try and find Walker's position on the baseball team. He simply was not listed as a member of the team. I haven't yet found the 1900 edition.  Cake  (talk) 03:31, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I found more editions on UVA's website, but only one year mentioned a Walker on the baseball team, and found no mention of the batting average. Cake  (talk) 13:32, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for doing the digging to try to help. I aways check the top of the newspaper pages and look at the whole thing, and usually go back to page one and get the Vol.and No. I have some other interested parties who are helping me find where this appeared, so let's give it a couple of weeks before removing the unsourced info. Also, I hope you don't mind if I consolidate some of the "one sentence paragraphs" which my mentor always disallowed. Best--Eagledj (talk) 13:44, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I cannot find anything about his grandparents. Curious about his Confederate ties.  Cake  (talk) 17:32, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Cake-- Great work finding the 1898 Tennessean article re Bradley at Vandy track meet. I have a lead on where the clipping came from that I was asking you about: The Nashville Banner, Feb 23, 1950. I don't have the actual article to prove the connection yet because I have no access to search the Banner, but I will get it. Best --Eagledj (talk) 18:32, 30 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Cake, I have found the missing source mentioned above. It came via email from the Library of Congress. The original article is HERE. This provides a RS for: the boxing championship of Nashville; the quote re: batting average record never approached (as of 1950); and Univ. of Nashville's "All-Around Athlete" medal statements. Best regards,--Eagledj (talk) 21:16, 13 June 2018 (UTC)