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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1918
Page
16
Readers stumble over Whose Picture Is This posing. The piece notes Jack Sheehan is barred from the guessing game for overfamiliar sports ties. It mentions a New York cartoonist winning an interallied meet plan and talks of six day bike race profits and Cubs hopes with Grover Alexander’s return delayed by war.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant kidney liver and bladder remedy. It emphasizes safety and quality with a sworn purity statement, notes availability in two bottle sizes at drug stores, and offers a sample bottle for ten cents with Boston Daily Post reference.
Willie Jackson of New York defeated Young Sacco of East Boston by knockout in the sixth round at the Park Riding Academy opening show for Central A. C. Sacco's seconds protested as the bell rang, but Jackson dominated with a relentless attack. The card also included Buckley over Burns, Collins over Jones, and Marko over Dempsey, with a Santa fund collection of $112.2.
National league magnates meet in New York on the eve of a pivotal annual session that could remake the league government. Key figures include Heydler and Toole as potential presidents, with Herrmann under pressure to resign amid friction with Ban Johnson and American league relations.
Arlington High School opened its basketball season with seventeen candidates at the first practice in the school gym. Nine players will try out this week as Coach Bradford I. Swift and Assistant Frank V. Gordon refine ball handling and passing basics for a green squad fielding a first and second five in the Suburban Interscholastic League.
Washington December 9 Fuel Administrator Garfield has been asked by President Wilson to be ready to join the Paris peace delegation to advise on fuel production and distribution issues.
Chicago December 9 The National Commission would become the sole administrative power in baseball if a program agreed by Ban Johnson and A R Tearney is carried out A joint meeting of committees from the American and National leagues and the minor leagues may be held in Chicago in January to act on the proposals Tearney says the arbitration board of the minor leagues would be wiped out.
Pinky Gardner, the middleweight wrestler, asks Matchmaker Tuohey to delay his bout with Harmer Jordan for a week after injuring a wrist in a fall on ice in Schenectady. The Burns Draak match remains on the card, with both fighters noted for speed and rivalry.
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