From a quick check of Gary Sarnoff's "Team of Destiny", which does not mention that Coolidge vetoed the Bonus bill, but which does tell us that May 10th was "Ty Cobb Day" at Griffith Stadium (!). A Congressman from Michigan sponsored it and organized a delegation of fifty members of the House and Senate to go to the game. Congress adjourned early so they could get to the game on time. Before Cobb led off the game, they presented him with twenty-one books about great men, one for each year he had been in the majors. Cobb said that he had only played MLB for twenty years, so they too one back, promising to give it to him in the 2025 season. There was a banquet after the game, at which Walter Johnson praised Cobb as the best player in the game. Cobb said that Johnson was the greatest pitcher ever, and that no finer sportsman existed. (So much for the myth that everyone hated Ty Cobb)
Why were there no results for May 11 and 12th? Were they rained out?
Much more than rained out. A tremendous downpour "gave" Washington its worst flood since 1889. Gary tells us that rain poured across the area from Cumberland, MD and Harpers Ferry, WV, swamping the Potomac down past Washington. Houses were washed away. The river reached fourteen feet at Chain Bridge, just a few feet below the roadway, and sprayed across the walkway. After the rain stopped in DC, people took their furniture out to yards, where it was hit by another cloudburst on May 16th.
