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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1908
Page
11
Battling Nelson vows to fight one more time to defend his championship. He previews four challengers Murphy Thompson McFarland and Welch and outlines a staged sequence of four round bouts followed by a 45 round final between the two finalists before he will face the winner.
East Boston draws attention as Nod dle Island five returns to fast paced basketball that has defined the club for five years. The season began with expectations that star forward Jack Doherty’s departure to the Pennsylvania State league would hurt their pace.
The 17th Separate team of Flushing, L I, arrives Thursday to test the locals who depend on speed. Hast Boston plans a three week tour through New England and the Middle Atlantic. Corbett leads scorers with 30 baskets in four games, Tim Desmond is close behind, Crowley fills center, Cody and Brett guard.
Fenno five meets John E Baldwin at Clan na Gael Hall South Boston in a high stakes clash as both teams chase wins. Baldwin boasts nine wins in ten games and recently defeated East Boston second string. Also the Buchanans face Dorchester Local in the same program.
A dated classifieds-style notice seeks multiple basketball matchups across weights and team ages. It lists organizers and contact addresses including Madeira A C Marlboro Maplewood Y M I and Winthrop Yacht Club, inviting 125 115 100 and 26 pound class games with fastest teams and out of town preferences.
Brown, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania converge in New York for the Tri angular College Chess League championship defense. The 10th league meet runs Tuesday through Thursday at the Rice Chess Club with Cornell the reigning titleholder and Yale expected to challenge for the trophy.
James Moran, after teaming with Floyd Mc Farland to win a six day race in New York, returns to the Park Square track next Saturday for a 20 mile motor-paced event against American champion Hugh MacLean.
Middleboro December 27 Thomas Sisson claims to be the champion coon hunter in southeastern Massachusetts. He has killed more than 20 coons this season and is still treeing animals. Two weeks ago he and his nephew caught four coons in one tree. Sisson owns a fine car but prefers hunting. Jesse Leonard of Middleboro ranks next with over 15 raccoons in recent weeks and he expects to top 60 before spring. The two often hunt together.
At the fish pier the opening of the mart drew a small fleet with five vessels arriving Friday and four more yesterday. Captains report two weeks of poor weather, noting Captain Green of the Spray brought in only 20,000 pounds and Squanto delivered 65,000 pounds of haddock cod and cusk. Total nine vessels yielded 221,900 pounds of mixed fresh fish. European liners loom today with White Star Canopic among arrivals, and more ships including Warren Sachem Leyland Bostonian Hansa Rhein felts Kennebec Invergale are listed for today and tomorrow. The city builds a new fireboat set for June completion, a Chelsea ferryboat is iced-in for protection, and Acapulco ports see strong American ship activity amid cargoes of apples.
Dec 2 early shipping round up lists arrivals including Esparta Frost Onondaga Chichester Jacksonville and Charleston with 35000 banana cargoes. Vessels Globe Gloucester Gloucester tugs Metacomet Paxinos Bear Ridge and Henry Clay listed with towing barges. Sailed wind west to southwest with several steamers and schooners bound for Charleston Baltimore and Newburyport among others.
The Boston indoor track season will crown champions in handicap and open divisions through a 10 point per race system. Top finishers gain points, with totals across meets determining the season champion and division prizes. Current standings list many runners from Newark, Everett, New York, South Boston, and Denmark among others.
The Class A amateur championship billiard tourney for New England begins at the Hub billiard rooms using the 14 inch balk line. It will run about three weeks with games nightly except Saturdays. Entries include Charles Nerraw Co M Van Dyke O E Wheelock Dick Engstrom Harry Parker and Billy Arthur. Tonight Nerraw meets Wheelock.
Mike Murphy and Arthur E. Bartlett head to the University of Pennsylvania. Bartlett from Worcester Academy shows a Sargent strength test of 1477.2 at age 19 and 180 pounds. Murphy predicts versatile athletic feats from the young New England strong man.
Pittsburg plans a large park with a mile track and big clubhouse to revive its status in light harness racing. The project aims to restore the city's prominence as a Grand Circuit factor through improved facilities.
Patrick Crehan a well known Roxbury citizen was mourned yesterday at St Patrick s Church A large cortège of 66 carriages attended Burial took place at Calvary cemetery Delegations from United Irish League and Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters joined the service Pall bearers included Thomas Quinn Michael J Quinn and others A requiem high mass was planned for today at 10 o clock Rev Bernard J Crehan of Willian County Galway Ireland is a brother of the deceased.
The Rev. Father Mark J. Sullivan of Immaculate Conception Church in Revere declares in a high mass sermon that high license costs and maintenance force dealers to push inferior liquor. He condemns crime disease and moral decay tied to the liquor traffic and calls the rum trade a leading example of commercial dishonesty.
Thomas Mahoney and James Carter were arrested by Station 3 officers early yesterday for breaking and entering the J J Murphy liquor store at 265 Cambridge Street. They gained entry by breaking a rear plate glass window.
Miss M L Bowman of New York files a $20,000 damage suit claiming hair loss from a patent hair dye. Defendants are two St Louis drug companies.
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