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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
14
Walter I. Badger of Boston, famed Yale baseball and football figure, calls in the Yale Alumni Weekly for a professional coach for Yale crews and a formal graduate committee to oversee football. He proposes a structured management plan.
A historical plea argues Yale should replace single captains with an active experienced committee to oversee athletics. It cites Harvard, Cornell and Columbia using professional coaches, noting Yale’s crews once trained by amateurs struggled against newer professional programs. The author contrasts Kennedy and Lehman eras to suggest professional guidance yields higher results.
Leydy McFarland and Jimmy Moran hold the six day bicycle record at 2377 miles plus one lap, set at Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1008.
Arthur Duffey praises Nate Cartmell for proposed appointment as University of Pennsylvania track coach while warning he must live up to Mike Murphy’s record. The column notes other trainers eyed, Camp’s all America miss Costello, Arlington’s Billy McCarthy, and praise for the B A A relay team’s flat Irvington street track to secure indoor honors.
Baldwin defeated Willie Ritchie by decision in a 20 round coast contest dated August 31, 1911. The article notes weigh in Felton 181 pounds Brickley 186 and discusses college football rankings with Carlisle Indians and Penn State urged for higher consideration.
New York sport writers McGoorty and Gibbons assess the bout as a frost to spectators while denying deliberate faking. They favor immediate legal action to recover money paid to the boxers, with consensus that the outcome weighed against the performance.
Christy Mathewson notes that John T. Brush’s passing will not derail the Giants. Harry Hempstead, Brush’s son-in-law, will run affairs with Mrs Brush owning the stock, McGraw likely to guide the team as before. The piece also discusses Cubs presumed trade blocks, Tinker’s managerial ambitions, and player rights amid contract disputes.
The article decries a recent no decision clash between McGoorty and Gibbons as overly scientific and unsatisfying to fans. It notes plans for an upcoming coast bout with Luther McCarthy and Jim Flynn, Brockton amateur shows, sparring tournaments, and high asking prices by boxers like Willie Ritchie, Rivers, Wolgast, and Mandot, urging promoters to avoid inflated valuations.
Lawrence, Dec 5. Tom Sawyer of Rockland Me was disqualified for repeated fouling against Terry Martin of Philadelphia at the Unity Club. Sawyer struck low in the seventh period, but Referee Jim Burke allowed continued action and awarded the verdict to Martin. Preliminaries saw O Rourke of Lawrence defeat Sullivan of Lawrence in seven rounds. Tommy Burns of Andover stopped Kyle of Lawrence in two. Yale and Harvard game participants and four substitutes will be eligible to vote for the 1913 captain.
Princeton New Jersey December five thirteen men earned varsity letters for Yale game season as follows W G Andrews A Bluebenthal Co C Dunlap W J Logan T T Pendleton W G Penfield H A H Baker W L De Witt G F Phillips W J Shenk J S Baker F Trenkman S C Waller seven of these men are on the vigor roll of honor for
Robert A. Bole sues the Pittsburg base ball club in federal court seeking $25,000 claiming a foul ball during a Sept. 16 Pirates game struck him in the stands. He says the crowd surged to escape the ball and he was knocked backward into a ventilator, injuring his spine.
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