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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1913
Page
19
Boston fans witnessed a dramatic ninth inning rally to beat the league leaders 6 to 3. The victory, described with superstitious flair, came after the team rode past a hay wagon on the way to the park and turned doubt into triumph.
In the ninth, Henriksen reached on a walk and scored as Boston rallied to take a 6 4 win. Umpires Dineen and Hart faced a hostile crowd after the finish as Washington fans swarmed the field and players escorted the umpires to the clubhouse. Clyde Engle led Boston with a triple and single, while Danny Moeller added three singles for Washington’s rivals. President Wilson attended in a box, applauding solid plays and rising for the seventh inning cheer.
National league matchups listed include Brooklyn at Boston, Philadelphia at New York, Cincinnati at St Louis, and Chicago at Pittsburg with games on the schedule. The card notes forthcoming games among major teams.
A schedule listing key season games includes Boston at Washington, St. Louis at Chicago, Cleveland at Detroit, and New York at Philadelphia among forthcoming NBA fixtures.
Boxing features George Robinson against Tommy Cole in Philadelphia and Rudolph Anholz facing Pat Brown in Calgary Alberta. College baseball schedules include Yale at Providence with Brown vs. 16 at Providence and Amherst, Amherst at Locust Street Grounds, Boston College vs Colby at Locust Street Grounds along with Maine at Amherst. High school games span Reading High and Stoneham High at Reading Quinney High at Quincy Swampscott at Swampscott Braintree at Braintree Shland High vs St. Mark's Southboro Wilmington Methuen Abington Brockton Worcester Holy Cross Prep.
Philadelphia triumphs 4 to 1 as superior fielding and base work offset New York pitching. Schulz held the Yankees to five hits while Philadelphia stole six bases and made three errors by New York cost them. Bender allowed 11 hits but struck out eight with strong support from Thomas and Collins. Hartzell collected three singles in four at bats.
Cleveland shuts out a Detroit rally to win 5 to 3 at Navin Field. Crawford hits the first homer of the year, Birmingham delivers a squeeze, and Olson scores on a bunt as Graney and Carisch add two more runs. Bush steals twice and Dubuc gives up the decisive errors while Gregg holds Detroit to nine hits.
At Memphis New Orleans 0 0 end twelfth darkness. Nashville Birmingham 8 0. Atlanta Chattanooga 5 4. Montgomery Mobile 11 2.
Harvard Crimson beats Maine University 7 to 3 at Soldiers Field. Rex Hitchcock, Harvard's third string pitcher, works nine innings to solid relief and buds to second on the Harvard staff. Maine briefly leads after a miscue but Harvard recovers as Gannett makes a fine catch. The piece ends with a meditation on alcohol, the world series, and sobriety.
Harvard pitchers Driscoll and Hitchcock kept Maine scoreless until the fifth. A sequence of hits and fielding errors brought Maine’s run as Harvard stretched its lead to 4 1 before Clark hit a solo homer and scored himself.
Williams of St. Louis belts three triples in four at bats to power an 8 to 1 victory over Chicago. He drives in a run in the sixth after a walk and again in the eighth on a triple capped by a long fly, while Mitchell limits Chicago to one tally in the seventh. Chicago strand runners at third with one out three times, as Weaver of Chicago prevents more scoring.
A historian’s reminiscence compares a manager concealing a derby like a world series ploy with control over players and stakes. The tale recalls an Irish‑blooded ballplayer in Baltimore who hosted a drunken winter binge, shared dinners, and a comic crab barrage from a misguided swoop on a newsboy as mischief spiraled into a memorable misadventure.
A Boston City Club meeting of motor truck owners and dealers outlined a campaign against the proposed tax hike on commercial vehicles. J B Sullivan Jr was named chair of the protest committee as Frank Corley leads in a Bay State Automobile Association pool tournament. Buick reports cost data for a model 25 while drivers note potholes on Massachusetts Avenue near Boylston Street awaiting repairs.
Dartmouth defeated Colby 5 to 2 in Hanover New Hampshire. The Maine collegians showed improved fielding but could not string hits together against Lavin, except in the fifth inning.
Dartmouth took a 5 2 victory over Colby as each team plated runs early then settled. Key contributions came from Lowney and Simpson with several hits while Dartmouth capitalized on Colby errors to secure the win.
Jake Daubert of the Superbas opens the season in top form and seems set to settle the debate over the greatest first baseman. He has long been a fine defender and hitter, but this year he appears to be in full control of his game and pushing past past limits.
The model has traveled just over six thousand five hundred miles with an average fuel efficiency near twenty miles per gallon. Total expenditures amount to sixty seven dollars and fifty cents for the six hundred eighty two point five gallons.
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