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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1917
Page
6
Indianapolis April 6 DePauw University athletes will take no part in intercollegiate competition this year. An athletic board meeting cited the United States likely involvement in the world war and the seriousness of the situation as reasons for canceling intercollegiate sports.
Philadelphia April 6 Pennsyl vania and Yale prepare to row in the first likely last regatta between Eastern colleges of 1917. Nickalls shifts to a youthful Yale varsity while veterans race in the junior contest. The Penn varsity and junior eights tied in a quarter mile workout and started 10 stroke bursts. Coach Wright praised the display and predicted a hard fought race. Most Quaker oarsmen plan to join the military unit at Penn.
The Boston College baseball team will depart South Station tomorrow afternoon to play Stevens in Hoboken on Monday. The schedule shows no war related cancellations but guarantees with two game series complicate travel and matchups, with Catholic University and Georgetown unlikely to visit the North this season.
Concord High School faces Middlesex School in the traditional season opener on the latter's home diamond in North Concord. The annualite contest kicks off the 1917 schedule for both squads.
Hannes Kolehmainen and Villir Kyronen enter the BA A Marathon race, aiming to push Mike Ryan’s 1912 record from the lead. The piece notes potential cancellations and the persistence of baseball amid wartime prep, with Ty Cobb and boxing figures also featured.
In Boston on March 25 Machina MWe Zbhyssko won two straight falls over Linow. The report also mentions Jack Flynn of the Lawrence area and questions about player regional leagues and 1915 season moves, including Jack Barry and the Red Sox midseason transfer.
West Point May 6. Despite the war declaration the army baseball and other teams will fulfil schedules unless unable to find opponents. Harvard cancelled its April 14 game and Williams cancelled next Wednesday. Hamilton College will play here tomorrow.
Joseph Wittmann of Morristown New Jersey offers to turn over his steam yacht Rowena then in the St Lawrence with a boat house and two acres on the Thousand Islands for use as a supply depot or other naval purpose He also offers a 17 room house near Morristown with 25 acres and buildings suitable for hospital or convalescent use
Beginning around April 12 the Boston Power Squadron under Commander Frank P. Huckins offers a defence patrol navigation course open to Naval Coast Defense Reserve members or Boston Power Squadron members or hopeful joins. Classes meet aboard Rex II or other yachts from Boston Yacht Club for weekday runs in Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay. Enrolment via William J. Pettis, secretary, Boston Power Squadron, Water Street, Boston.
South Boston visits Dorchester and Concord plays Middlesex. Noble and Greenough meets Groton while Cambridge Latin faces Lowell Tex tile. Roxbury Latin plays Thayer Academy. Framingham meets Everett and Manning takes on Gloucester.
The Brookline A A will stage an open swim meet at the Brookline tank tonight to raise funds for the Machine Gun Company of Brookline linked with the Ninth Regiment. Top Boston swimmers compete including Irving School stars Leo Hiandy and Mike Prendergast. Events include 50 and 100 yard races, 220, plunge, tube race, back stroke, water polo, diving and relays.
Track and baseball schedules at St. Louis University and Washington University have been suspended due to the war with Germany. Practice time will be redirected to military training for students and cadets.
General John B. Castleman of Louisville was re-elected president at the American Saddle Horse Breeders Association annual meeting in Louisville today.
The Intercollegiate Rowing Association declares off the Poughkeepsie regatta set for June 1 due to war. Invitations had gone to Princeton Syracuse Wisconsin California Stanford Navy Washington to face Cornell Pennsylvania and Columbia, the charter members.
April 6 The National Baseball Commission granted pitcher Joe Wood of the Cleveland club relief from the 1916 ineligible list. Wood had been carried by the Boston Americans for failing to report last spring and was released to Cleveland, where he is now playing.
Tennis for boys and girls will begin at Lexington High School within a week once the Athletic Field courts are ready. Teams plan a busy season with interscholastic and inter-class matches.
Leading universities including Yale Princeton Cornell Harvard and Columbia suspend all intercollegiate sport as military training accelerates due to the national emergency. The University of Pennsylvania faces a board decision next Monday while efforts will continue to encourage athletics for training without intercollegiate competition.
Milwaukee announces the signing of catcher Bradley from the Cleveland American League club on April 6. The move strengthens the roster as the Milwaukee club plans spring training and opening season efforts.
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