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Scarce image of nine American baseball players posing for photo. They are wearing jersey's with '9TH INFANTRY' on the front, and a '9' on their caps. Based on the postmark, this photo was taken in the Philippines in 1911.
The US 9th Infantry (Manchu) was stationed in the Philippines at this time.
Postmarked ‘CEBU OCT 3 1911 CEBU—' with 4 centavos stamp McKinley stamp ‘Philippine Islands, United States of America’.
Player identified on front with 'X' in bottom margin. Date '1911' written in ink in bottom margin.
Text on back in Spanish. Letter sent from Doroteo Veloso in Cebu to unknown address (removed).
Paper scuffed on back where address removed. Some pencil marks on back.
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
9th Infantry Manchu
Shipped to the Philippines, February 1899, and took part in six campaigns in the Insurrection before being sent to north China for the Boxer Rebellion, July, 1900. Fought in the Boxer campaigns of Tientsin, Yang-tsun and Peking before returning to the Philippines a year later and fighting a final campaign there against insurrectionists on Samar. Departed the Philippines, May 1902, but returned in 1905 and stationed there almost continuously until 1912, with only one brief stateside tour in 1907.
https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/files/SR-1984-Regiments-of-the-US-Army.pdf
1911
In the Philippines the Moros in the Sarangani peninsula of Mindanao became so lawless that an expedition under Major Heiberg commanding some Philippine Scouts was sent against them. After arduous labor by his and other columns, peace was restored. At the same time detachments of the Regulars had their hands full in preserving order in the Lake Lanao district, Mindanao.
Actions were still going on in the Philippines, as is illustrated by the fact that the Moro outlaws were yet on the warpath. Captain E. G. Peyton with 2 troops of cavalry and 2 companies of Philippine scouts rounded up the worst of these outlaws in the island of Jolo and succeeded in reducing them.
Jan. 14 1912
Twenty Moros were killed and 2 Americans wounded, 1 officer and 1 enlisted man.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/GANUSA/10B*.html
