Sporting Circles Stirred by Great Events Near at Hand
New York April 28 1907 sports busy week ahead with college crews trainers May track major league baseball yachts and horse racing stake events. Yale Navy Harvard Dartmouth Oxford Cambridge plans animating international matches Kellerman Golding Vanderbilt Croker Croker Croker plans Squires arrival and potential Jeffries match plus Metropolitan handicap at Belmont Park with Accountant Bicket Waterlight Grapple Pulsus Brookdale Nymph and others in consideration.
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New York
Middle West
Yale
Annapolis
Eli
Navy
Harvard
Dartmouth
Cambridge
Atlantic
Oxford
Annette Kellerman
Ellaine Golding
Bath Beach
N. Y
Golding
Long Island
San Francisco
William Squires
Antipodes
Squires
Jeffries
Los Angeles
Jack O’brien
Tommy Burns
Belmont Park
Accountant
Bicket
Waterlight
Grapple
Pulsus
Brookdale Nymph
Kuroki
Jacquin
Cressina
Zambesi
New Athletic Star Arises Lee Talbot Shines In Inter scholastic Meets
Lee Talbot of Mercersburg Academy stands 6 ft tall, 200 pounds, and has broken two interscholastic records at Princeton on April 20. He then won the 16 pound hammer at the Pennsylvania relay games on April 27, and placed third in the 16 pound shot. Talbot, from Kansas City, is likened to Ralph Rose and aims to challenge Flanagan and Coe within a year.
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Lee Talbot
Mercersburg Academy
Princeton
Intercollegians
Talbot
Ralph Rose
California
Yale Crew Season Opens with Regatta Mix of Races
Yale announces a reshaped crew under Captain Ide with eight rowers slated for Severn races and Annapolis tests. The squad features Griswold Taft Hoppin Bromas Auchincloss with Boulton and Ide in key positions, while Howe adapts a thumb injury and Kennedy adds shell power and stroke polish ahead of the New London regatta season.
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New Haven
Conn
Ide
Yale
New London
Harvard
Harbor
Schuy
Annapolis
Varsity
Severn
Griswold
Howe
Taft
Hoppin
Bromas
Boulton
Auchincloss
Shell
Kennedy
Boston Boiler Makers Reject Compromise Wage Scale
The Boston Boiler Makers Union 9 rejects a 7 percent wage offer from 14 employers while seeking a 15 percent raise and an eight hour day. The union may rescind its eight hour petition but will insist on the higher wage increase. President William Curry of Lowell Lodge 14 attended and said his lodge will seek a similar result from Lowell.
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Boston Boiler
Ted ‘Union
William Curry
Lowell Boiler Makers
Union 14
Boston
Lowell Lodge
Religion and ministry in a modern age talk at Harvard
The Rev. Lyman Abbott told Harvard men in Appleton Chapel that religion aims to connect with the Higher Power and that sacrifice and fasting are vanishing. He said true religion today rests in love, service and sacrifice, noting increasing religious fervor in the United States despite declining church attendance.
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Lyman Abbott
Harvard
Appleton Chapel
United States
Vermont
Charlestown Navy Yard
John Loury
J. G. Lawless
E. V. McLea
Yale Track Star Torrey Out for Harvard Yale Meet
The Yale track season loses star sprinter Douglass Torrey to a grip attack and home rest in Pennsylvania. He is not expected back before June but may line up for the May 25 Yale meet and the May 31 to June 1 Harvard Intercollegiate.
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Yale
New Haven
Douglass Torrey
Torrey
Pennsylvania
Harvard
Lawmakers Inspect Cape Cod Harbour Improvements
A Massachusetts legislative harbor committee toured five Cape Cod projects over two days. They examined Wellfleet’s dyke plan with a $20,000 cost share request, Rock Harbor dredging needing $10,000, West Bay breakwater and widening at $10,000, Scroton harbor entrance security at $10,000, and West Falmouth channel deepening with $10,000. No promises were made, but local residents were urged.
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Commonwealth
Legislative Committee On
Cape Cod
Wellfiecet
Wellfleet
Orleans
Cape
Herring River
Rock Harbor
Great Flats
Osterville
Highway Commission
East Bay
West Bay
Scroton
Sandwich Shore
West Falmouth
Archduke Leopold Divorces Actress Wife in Vienna
Vienna reports Archduke Leopold Salvator formerly Leopold Woelffling divorces from actress Wilhelmina Adamovic after six months apart. He renounced titles, served as Swiss private, and faced her militant vegetarian sunbathing lifestyle before filing.
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Vienna
Leopold Woelffling
Leopold Salvator
Austria
Wilhelmina Adamovic
Woelfling
Switzer
Swhaes
Woelfliing
Ascona
Bay Stallion Rubenstein Highlighted in New England
Bay stallion Rubenstein 2:05, sire of Baron Wilkes progeny, discussed as a fast pacer with most offspring producing trotters. Owner C. W. Laselle of Whitinsville operates Oakhurst Farm. Dominion of Canada stake draws 29 nominations with Ha Direct and Billy Seal cited. 2:10 pace entries include Gentrys Star and Aintree among others.
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New England
Rubenstein
Baron Wilkes
Daniel Lambert
Mr. A. Johnson
Brockton
C. W. Laselle
Whitinsville
Oakhurst Farm
J. A. Crabtree
Kruger
R. B. Williams
Wilson Addington
Walter Cox
Dominion of Canada
Chimes
E. A. Sanderlin
Jennie W
Billy W
A. H. Dore & Son
Taunton
Johnny Smoker
New England Horses in Columbus Grand Circuit Entries
The Columbus meeting closed April 11 with 44 entries in the 2:16 trotting class for a 10000 purse. New England participants include Prince in 2:15 1 4 and Sidney Carton at 2:16 with other entries such as Marcheal and Bruce Girdle across multiple stakes. Buffalo purses also noted with 161 nominations across seven events including 38-year-old trotters and 2:16 class at 3000.
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New England
Prince
Sidney Prince
J. A. Crabtree
Quincy
Sidney Carton
Electmont
F. X. Fitzpatrick
Cambridge
Kassona
Kanale
Allen Farm
Pittsfield
Marcheal
Bay Horse
Margrave
Walter Cox
Manchester
N. H
Sadie Tagg
Alonzo McDonald
Boston
Pacers
Hal Direct
Black Horse
Direct
Hal
Billy Seal
Gentry
Hidalgo
Warren C
R. B. Williams
Bay Mare
Alcymont
E. A. Sunderlin
Columbus
Bruce Girdle
B. m
Tregantle
Grace Bend
J. Y. Gatcomb
Concord
Stella Oaks
Blk. m
Jennie W
EF. A. Sanderlin
Lebanon
Wilson Addington
Kruger
C. G
Buffalo
Trotters
Belle Bird
Jay Tine
C. L. Laselle
Whitinsville
Bonnie Wray
Peter the Great
Nowaday
Frank X. Fitzpatrick
Cambridge Merriman
Bingen
Jolly Bird
Clary Lotus
Pilatus
Taft Praises Y M C A Work at Dayton Cornerstone
Secretary of War William H Taft arrived in Dayton to dedicate the Y M C A building cornerstone. He praised the organization, noted its growth and urged support for its mission in the Philippines and Canal Zone projects. He called for moral recreation and described government plans to expand Y M C A facilities in overseas posts.
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William H. Taft
Cincinnati
Young Men's Christian Association
Mr. Taft
Taft
Philippines
United States
Porto Rico
Tropics
Young Men’s Christian Association
Canal Zone
Canal Commission
Commission
Harness race scene shifts among trainers and horses
Marinelietta ranks little in Lon McDonald’s stable at Selma but gains praise from the South. Triffler and a Brigadier race for a $3800 purse on Memorial Day at Hill's Grove. Trainers Binney Demarest Smith and others move horses to Wilkesbarre Readville Poughkeepsie and Dover while Nervola offspring enter Kentucky stables. Notables include Morn General Electric Lady Gail Hamilton Bonnie Russell and others.
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Marinelietta
Lon McDonald
Selma
Butittle
Providence
Triffler
Hill's Grove
I. T. Binney
Mystic Park
Prince Alert
Wilkesbarre
Penn
H. G. Smith
Mart Demarest
New Orleans
New York
Flexo
Readville
John Howell
Tiverton
Hudson River Track
Poughkeepsie
Morn
General Electric
Lynne Bel
Fanstella
Sidney
W. E. E. Lockwood
Nervola
Walter Cox
Dover
N. H
Kentucky
Sally Clinker
Clinker
Margaret
Eagle Bird
Clem Beachy
Mr. Lockwood
John H. Dickerson
Macon
W. J. Andrews
Sweet Marie
Jerome McKinney
John G. King
Charley Thompson
George Corwin
Thomas Dolphin
Jack Curry
Gail Hamilton
Bonnie Russell
Daniel O'Dill
Typographical Union Plans May 5 Parade and Union Shop Printing
The Typographical Union voted to urge members to attend a bone demonstration and protest meeting on the Common next Sunday. A resolution asks Old Home Week organizers to have printing done in a union shop. Officers were nominated for the next year and will be elected by chapels on May 15.
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The
Typographical Union
Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone
O Meara Warns Against Spanish Veterans
Boston Police Commissioner Stephen O Meara argues against proposed changes that would weaken civil service exams for police and other public positions. He says the tests protect mental and physical fitness, and warns that relaxing standards risks inferior workers in policing and public safety across Massachusetts.
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Boston
Civil Service
Massachusetts
Stephen O’meara
Cosmopolitan offers huge Century Dictionary set with magazine deal
The Cosmopolitan Magazine aimed to add 60 000 home subscribers by offering the complete Century Dictionary Cyclopedia and Atlas for 39 dollars with a two year magazine subscription. They cut commissions, printed a large edition, and distributed remainder mainly to New England with Boston as a hub via the R H White Co. Boston readers are expected to seize the value fast.
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Cosmopolitan Magazine
New England
Boston
R. H. White Co
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