July 26 in Detroit Tigers History: Tigers favorite Harry Heilmann gets an appreciative hand from the crowd for having dived into the Detroit River last night to save (1916)

On July 26, 1916 — Tigers favorite Harry Heilmann gets an appreciative hand from the crowd for having dived into the Detroit River last night to save a woman from drowning. Late in the evening on July 25, 1916, Heilmann was driving when he witnessed an automobile back off a dock at Water Works Park

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