Racing Plans Spur Track Debates Across New England
Autofan riders press for fast tracks as Billy Corcoran plans a challenge to Jack Prince to build tracks. Nat Butler aims to beat Charley Murphy’s mile record and may race on Long Island if Massachusetts fails. Worcester meet planned May 30 at Barber’s Crossing with half mile track. Nashua meet May 2 managed by Nashua Cycle Club. Waltham seeks lease for May 30 track inauguration. Appalachian Mountain Club bicycle section meets, elects officers. Boston A A South Boston hosts a supper event for nine? chalks.
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Interclub Racing Association
Waltham Club
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Harvard Defeats Tufts In a Quiet Pitchers Battle
Harvard won 56 to 4 over Tufts in an errorless game. Curran started strong for Tufts but walked hitters as Harvard bunched five runs in the second and third. Coolidge, Wendell, and Loughlin shone in Harvard's field and baserunning while Kernan pitched well early for Tufts before trouble in the sixth and seventh inning.
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Loughlin
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Tenney the Only One to Do Hard Work Yesterday
In Greensboro on April 11 the Boston that day gave no team practice due to cold and rain and hoped for better weather. Fred Tenney alone did serious exercise, while Buck Freeman, Stahl, and others pursued leisure activities. Nichols left for Washington to attend the Yale Georgetown game with plans for team travel and preparation ahead of the Yale match.
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Norfolk
Yale
Sharkey Buys Piano Hopes To Learn Rag Time
Tom Sharkey paid $600 for a grand piano in New York. He asked the salesman to teach him rag time, joking about stretching an octave and training. The exchange highlights Sharkey’s boxing bravado and interest in music instruction.
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Tom Sharkey
Sharkey
Fitzsimmons
McCoy
Corbett
Penn and Manhattan Battle to Darkened Draw at Franklin Field
University of Pennsylvania and Manhattan College played to a nine nine tie in Philadelphia. Manhattan added two runs in the tenth before darkness halted the game with Penn on three bas es and none out. Final score not recorded due to darkness. Manhattan 12 hits Pennsylvania 6. Errors Manhattan 6 Pennsylvania 7.
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Brown Defeats Trinity 14 to 1 in Season Opener
Providence R I April 11 Brown opened its baseball season at Andrews field by routing Trinity 14 to 1. Trinity showed weakness at bat and in the field as Brown's offense tallied a sequence of hits and runs. Batteries Eaton Washburn Wheeler Whittemore and Chase for Brown. Goodridge and Glazelnook for Trinity.
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Wheeler and Whittemore and Chase
Goodridge and Glazelnook
Baseball Dispatch on Player Payments and League Tensions
The report notes Cincinnati did not receive player donations amid league cuts. Managers deny buying stars like Delehanty or Lajoie, with salaries and contracts in dispute. News covers league schedules, signings, and early season prep across multiple teams and cities.
Harvard Baseball Team Sails South for Virginia Game Trip
The Harvard baseball squad departs Harvard Square at 4 PM for a southern tour by Fall River boat, aiming to open with Virginia in Charlottesville. Coach Nichols will join in Washington, with training on the Washington League grounds and a picked Balti more Country Club team as opponents. schedule includes multiple Cambridge games and key matchups through June.
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Philadelphias
Delehanty
Lajoie
Arthur Madison
North Adams
Pittsburg
Indianapolis
Ewing
Andy Freedman
New York
Billy Goeckel
Philadelphia
John S. Rogers
New York Ad
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Perehenty
Tom Burns
Jimmy Donnelly
Springfield
Ames
Alergetown
Ashington
Yale Law _ School
Albright
Myerstown
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Brookline
Roxbury Athletic Club
John Kelly
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Emile Bernard
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Fuldaub
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Soldiers Field
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Fall River
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University of Virginia
Washington
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Stillman
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Kendall
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Fincke
G. C. Clark
Coolidge
Wendell
Ewer
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Christenson
Loughlin
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plans Big Football Season
The athletic association of MIT has begun planning for the upcoming football season with new officers named P G L Hilken president H P McDonald vice president and R A Brown secretary and treasurer. The Harvard tennis courts at Jarvis Field opened with twenty one single courts and three doubles with four new doubles due soon. Also noted are a Keystone Shooting League shoot off where H Henry defeated EB J Russell, and Williams College football finances showing a $472 deficit. Enoch the man fish set a world submarine diving record by staying underwater 15 minutes 8 seconds surpassing his prior 1412 minute best.
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Williams
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Wason Defeats Spurr in Candlepin Alley Match
In a Wholesale Drug Clerks' League contest at Carruth's alleys Wason & Co. outscored W. Spurr & Co. across most games. Wason totals 1224 to Spurr's 400 plus 395 plus 397.
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Eddie Connolly to Return at Roanoke Meet
Boxing gossip notes Eddie Connolly ends a layoff to return at the Roanoke boxing card on April 19 facing Twin Sullivan in a fifteen round bout. The New England scene is active with Allie Alberts Jim Davis Young Madison and Kid Lewis in earlier bouts and local figures texting for matches.
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Boston Sports
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Connoly
Kid Lavigne
England
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Tom Causer
Dick Burge
Birmingham
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Burge
Boston
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Martin Riley
Fall River
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Jim Davis
Young Madison
Kid Lewis
James J. Kennedy
South Boston
Jack Lyon
Roxbury
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R. A. Boylan
Canton
Mass
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Monahan
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Deewah the Twenty-Five Foot Yacht Nears Completion
Local yacht enthusiasts focus on the Deewah a twenty five foot cruiser built for Alfred Douglass of New York. Lawley’s shipyard describes her lines mahogany interior hard pine plank keel ballast 6700 pounds and sail area 80 square feet as hull and rigging near completion for Hull Mass Yacht Club racing with restricted north and south sail zones.
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Boxing Stakes and Challen ges in Boston Notes
A column discusses midlevel middleweight prospects to face Dido Plumb next fall. Names mentioned include George Gardner George Byers and Young Brooks weighing in on Jimmy Stewart's challenge with a fifty dollar forfeit. Also references Dick Moore Joe Walcott Twin Sullivan Dan Snyder and a noon call from Charles S Lake of East Boston.
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George Gardner
George Byers
Young Brooks
Jimmy
Stewart
Johnny Keenan
Dick Moore
Joe Walcott
Mike
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