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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1903
Page
3
Melrose area lanes hosted the Highland club in a Candle Pin League match. Home team Melrose Athl posted a 1333 score led by Flynn 284 and Gibbons 77. Totaled 433 for the night with Morton 85 and Kennard 81 among others. Highland club won two of three despite heavy drifting and a large miscue tally.
Yale trainer Mike Murphy urged canceling the Easter vacation trips for the varsity nine. He proposed staying in New Haven to play three to five games with the New Haven Connecticut League team and perhaps one game with a New York or Brooklyn nine for practice, arguing the trips exhaust the pitchers and harm the team.
Wilf Stinson Hugh MacLean and a group settled at Revere cycle track to train for Monday's three event race. Stinson's mile pace hit 1:30 with a fastest mile of 19:24 this season, while MacLean posted rapid intervals. An impromptu afternoon race showed the two men closely matched as Jimmy Moran prepares to arrive from Atlanta tomorrow with strong time trial performances.
S3ICYCLE NOTES report aris will pace for Har season with an 18 horsepower built motor intended for es events. The entry mentions two cylinders, a home track at Charles River Park, and a schedule of arrivals and workouts for early season pacing and races. Bennie Enroe and Joe Nels are noted as riders, with F. Ed Spoon to lead the season’s pacing plans at the Charles River track.
At the weekly event Sudinty alleys Mell earned 290 points for first, Felix achieved 277 for a second win, Parrish tied for last with 287, and Burdett finished third with 273 points in the latest competition.
On May 2 the Edward Brookline will hold an operation school of athletic meet.
Somerville High School routed Tufts College sophomores 11 to 1 on Somerville field. Knight pitched well for Tufts despite nine hits allowed as Somerville punished him after the fourth inning. Maloney, Goode, Burns, and Cuddy led Somerville hitters while Tift earned praise on the mound for Somerville. Attendance 300.
Boston faces Philadelphia in the National league opener while Chicago amid chatter. Spring grounds will host April 20 games at the South End and Point of Pines with strong teams expected. Manager Leiffer of Revere seeks players. umpire Murray set for Harvard games. Corbett lauds Chicago Nationals. Attendance and early sales mark a hopeful baseball season beginning with key exhibition matches and travel to New York for the opening.
The Brookline Wheelmen presented their annual minstrel show in Town Hall last evening and scored a big success. The program featured a parody on Mr. Dooley with a detailed portrayal of Water Commissioner Riley's bid for Selectman.
In Wheeling West Virginia on April 13 the Boston Nationals tied the Wheeling team of the Central league 1 to 1 after rain interrupted play in the sixth inning following a four run Boston burst. Each side had scored once earlier.
An advertisement by Dr. Shoop claims a guaranteed cure for rheumatism after 16 years and 2,000 experiments. He offers a trial with six bottles for 5.50 and promises to pay the druggist if it fails, with a money back by the customer’s word. Written from Racine Box 683, urging readers to request his book and order.
Hugo Hutt of the Philadelphia Fire Department recounts a near death from kidney trouble and credits Dr Kilmer Swamps Swamp Root with his full recovery after medical treatment failed. He describes military service, athletic achievements, and a strong physique from fighting fires, and urges readers to consider the remedy.
Editorial notice explains a free sample bottle of Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root and a book about its cures. Readers are invited to mail in and mention reading the Boston Daily Post. Bottles are from Kilmer Co Binghamton New York and one dollar size bottles are sold by druggists.
The Atlantic Transport Line steamer Minnehaha, arriving from London and Southampton, played a chess game in wireless contact with the Cunard steamer Ivernia from Liverpool and Queenstown. The Minnehaha won the match.
The New England championships in foils duelling swords and sabres will be held at the B A A gym on Wednesday evening.
The Boston committee plans a convention clubhouse near Copley square to host 25 000 educators for the National Educational Association meeting next July. It will serve as administration and social center with committees led by Cushing Martin Keyes Lincoln Winship Wendell Mead Warren Lang and others.
Dr. Liverpool offers free expert diagnosis at 360 Tremont Street Boston describing vast cures across numerous conditions including chronic rheumatism, neuralgia, dyspepsia, diseases of the spine, bronchitis, heart and liver diseases, and many others. He claims rapid, noninvasive assessment, free medicines, and success even where other doctors failed.
Sam Harris, manager of Terry McGovern, states he would bet $10,000 McGovern can defeat Young Corbett in a rematch. Harris notes Corbett is away, delaying talks, but plans to finalize after Corbett arrives East and has secured $19,000 from George Considine.
Rumor of Donovan skipping the match is denied by a telegram stating he will meet Walcott at the Health and Physical Culture Club. Donovan travels from Rochester to Boston for the bout. McCarthy, a former heavyweight, comments on expected excitement after recent tensions between Walcott and Donovan. The clash is scheduled for fifteen rounds with two 10 round preliminaries.
Yale faces Georgetown in Washington while Princeton meets Virginia in Charlottesville. Trinity plays Fordham in New York and Cornell takes Holy Cross in Worcester. Brown and Nichols meet Newton High in Newton and High plays Cambridge Latin in Cambridge. Noble and Greenough opposites Ballou and Hobigand in Brookline. Malden High hosts Revere High in Malden. Tufts 06 meets Dorchester High in Dorchester.
Parson Davies the manager of Kid Broad of Cleveland seeks a title bout with Young Corbett. Davies quotes Corbett ready to box anyone for the championship next June and offers Broad a 20 to 25 round fight at 127 pounds with a 4 oclock weigh in. He notes a prior offer of 60 percent of gross receipts and a $3000 guarantee for Broad against Corbett or McGovern and pledges to cover any posted forfeit.
Boxing fans hail the likely appearance of Joe Walcott and Philadelphia Jack O'Brien at the Health and Physical Culture Club next Monday. Seats go on sale at 10 am via Secretary J J McCauley as members rush to secure spots, with Wednesday’s meeting expected to draw huge crowds and more bouts announced by the club. Ed Morris distances himself from being listed as a matchmaker, calling such notices harmful.
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