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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1908
Page
9
Harvard track and field shows progress amid rain and winds. Captain Burr and sprinters Blumer and Dodge gain notice while shot putters Bangs and Pope show potential. Hurdles, distance, and high jump athletes train hard as spring weather nears.
The league reports weekly leaders across Greater Boston. Rexford tops team totals at 1494 while Chelsea Square leads with 552 in a single game. Worcester and Chelsea Square share the high individual single score at 122.
In M alester Oklahoma on April 5 sheriff warrants were served on all players from the New York National League team and Muskogee Western league squad for violating the Sunday law. Players were allowed to continue their journey after the warrants.
The Eastern League will hold its annual meeting at the Victoria Hotel in New York tomorrow. President Powers announced a 140 game schedule with no change in league makeup. Montreal keeps its franchise as investors buy out Farrel and partners and James Casey takes manager duties with new players signed.
The Boston Athletic Association Marathon on April 20 at Ashland will feature a record field. Manager George W. Brown reported many entrants including Fred L. Brenson Charles Andrews E W Minden Charles B Greenwood J F Burnett John J Walsh George Heath Joseph Donovan Harry Madden Ely Delong Gerald Martindale Jimmy Lee first unicorn BA A start Dowling South Boston trio Norris Wiseman train nightly from Columbia road to Chestnut Hills and back promising a strong showing in the London Olympic qualifying race.
A veteran note outlines renewed interest in Boston schoolboy rowing on the Charles River under Coaches Grainey and O’Leary as clubs struggle for support. It also highlights Arthur Mather’s uncertain nationals bid, Martin Sheridan and John Garrell’s discus duel in Pittsburg, and historic but unsettled records.
Racing notes list horses in Readville stables training for a major campaign. Edwin Bither houses Mack Mack and Border Knight among others with times from 2:06 to 2:17. James Carpen and James O’Donnell fields include Our Proteen Catalan and several mares and fillies with lineage to Bingen, Nelson’s Wilkes, and Directum Boy.
Aman canvasses Cambridge households offering bulk groceries at unreal low prices. Many women pay $1 deposits and never receive goods. Complainants include Mrs. William Mercer 15 Worcester Street Mrs. Edward Mercer 22 Worcester Street and Mrs. Johnson Worcester Street.
The Taft factional fight centers on resolutions of instruction versus preference at the State convention. Congressman Gardner expects both types, while Powers backers push for agreeable preference wording. Lodge and Crane plan Boston presence as Ninth District delegates selection heats up.
Wihlimar Stefansson, Harvard graduate and Arctic student, plans a two year expedition starting April 15 to Coronation Bay settlements. He will trek 1850 miles by frozen waste with a gun and fishnet, living with natives who have little contact with whites. An American about 28, he speaks the Esquimaux tongue.
In Watertown and Newton crowds of 23 youths gathered for a late night crap game. A panic caused by gunfire not present sparked a rapid stampede, smashing windows and injuring several as participants fled within nine seconds.
The north and south sides show six weak concrete spots each with visibile faults near entrances. Despite timber supports under seating and interlaced steel girders, the danger of structural issues concerns caretakers, though collapse is not imminent. The stadium cost 175000 with 100000 from the class of 1875 and designers Hollis Johnson Worcester and McKim, Meade & White.
The photo shows cracks at the points of greatest strain in Harvard's stadium concrete. Large timbers reinforce transverse beams and pillars near seat uprights bear heavy weight as engineers note potential progressive failure. Entrances flank the stadium with reinforced pillars bolted to timbers to correct faults.
Mayo Club at 12 Kneeland Street heard P. J. Flannery of the International Union of Freight Handlers of America discuss Chicago clubs. Delegates from Clare and other groups attended as resolutions protested the arbitration treaty with England. Various Irish language and cultural events were announced for April and May across clubs and schools with plans for entertainments and balls in Paul Revere Hall and St Rose Hall.
Chicago report details George Hackenschmidt accusing Frank Gotch of oiling his body to gain advantage in a match. The exchange includes Gotch denying the claim and explaining his training to create perspiration for a slippery effect while noting eye injuries in the bout.
Finals for the Wells cup quarter mile at Harvard will match Captain Dodge against the fast sophomore De Selding in what shapes as a close race. In prelims Dodge ran 63 3-5 seconds from scratch while De Selding clocked 62 1-5 with a two yard handicap. Watson, the current holder, shows best chance besides the two leaders but is handicapped three yards. Other finalists include Day 30 yards, Guild 15 yards, Keays six yards, Piper 15 yards, Stein hart 15 yards, and Whitcher nine yards.
News from Mobile Alabama reports Walter Clayton a negro convict at Hand Lumber Company stockade was lynched by a mob outside Ray Minette after alleged assault on a 20 year old white woman. In Wesson Mississippi John Burr a young negro was lynched by about 500 men for the murder of a 12 year old white boy.
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