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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1892
Page
3
A plan for amateur athletics would set event standards and require division championship winners to meet qualifying marks to enter national championships. If adopted, entries would be restricted to first class athletes, boosting conditioning, competition quality, and fairness among associations and clubs.
The article analyzes past weigh ins for Burge and McAuliffe noting Burge rarely exceeded 138 pounds in seven years and weighed 132 on fight day. It discusses McAuliffe’s fluctuating weight claims, proposed for 133 or 138 pounds, and mentions related negotiations, purses, and possible matches with Gibbons and Daly.
Special to the Post Gloucester New Jersey December 29 results list six races with finish orders and times. Tradesman Comforter Chapman are top three in the five furlongs. Some More Princess Rhelda Hawkeye McKeever La Cigale finish orders shown with times and betting. Additional races include John Lackland Honest Tom Congress Buddhist Kilkenny and other listed runners with assorted times and payouts.
In Life, He asks if it will be a match and Bhe replies that it ought to be since he is a regular stick, and she is all the rest of it.
A detailed summary of multiple races with winners, runners up and times. Brussels won the first race with betting 6 to 5, followed by Mayor B and Bob Arthur. Second race favored Simplicity C at 20 to 1, with Blue and White and Fleika close. Times range from 1:18 to 1:56 across events. numerous horses listed with weights and betting odds.
Two weeks after a death report, Billy McLean is alive. Gloucester’s top jockey Doane is praised, and Denny Lynch visits Guttenburg with two good bets. Notes on Inferno, Kirsch, and the possibility of a ringer Tillie spark suspicion, while legal rulings bar sales of outlaw-owned horses on trucks. The St Theresa stable adopts Brookdale’s fall black colors and adds horses. Staten Island racetrack push gains momentum as market optimism rises.
President Whitney met with a Pioneer Federal Labor Union committee on a new 1805 agreement and granted concessions including a five cent per hour raise for snow plow workers. A union meeting tonight or Saturday will aim to sign before January 1. Colored Waiters Endorse the Post for Labor Voice. J B Moorhead notes 86 members and rapid growth with an employment bureau overseen by Moorhead.
At a special meeting Pantmakers' Union No. 12 Walter Chuck and Thomas Brophy spoke on the best plan for closing the present lockout. The executive board was noted as actively exerting itself in the matter.
Local unions No 1 and 25 held a mass meeting at 994 Washington last evening to discuss ending the clothing contract system. Speakers included S Goldman A H C Wirtzing James Nugent and Joseph Hymans.
The Post fund aiding Homestead starving families increased by 55250 yesterday as Local Union No 97 of Cigarmakers led the drive. President Tracy and Secretaries Miller and Abraham, along with the executive board, organized a $550 check to the effort.
The annual hall of the Fitchburg Railroad Relief Association will be held at the Park Theatre in Waltham on January 27. Governor Russell may attend if possible. A special train will run to Waltham and a decorated special car will carry the governor and party. Eleven hundred tickets have already been sold.
Walking Delegate Charles Goodman of Pant Makers' Union No. 12 resigns and moves to Troy New York. The annual convention of the Machine Wood Workers' International Union of America is underway in Chicago. President William B. Prescott of the International Typographical Union returns from a visit to the Childs-Drexe Home for Union Printers at Colorado Springs. Stone Masons' Union No. 1 votes to confer with Master Builders' Association on a contract slated for January 3.
D H Blanchard of Boston offers a 10000 purse open to all trot ting stallions eligible to 2.12 class for September 18 1898 at Mystic Park. Hefty prizes of 5000, 2500, 1500 and 1000 with staged payments and substitutions allowed through September 1.
It reports a possible scratch meet by Technology Athletic Club at South Armory with MIT and First Regiment A A merging plans. A sparring exhibition in South Boston drew about two hundred at Clan Na Gael Hall featuring Reidy, Godfrey, Leaver, Morrison, Hubbard, and others, with Doc Lane as MC. Also notes cricketer John Howard Comber’s marriage to Lucy E Johnson in Lowell and their post wedding plans.
Misattributed or fragmentary Detroit Free Press line notes caution against yielding to negative influences, urging prevention of wrongdoing and moral vigilance.
In a Boston interview Nathan Appleton recalls supporting the Panama project in Washington, defending De Lesseps and denying bribery. He cites his $4,000 yearly pay, the press subsidy criticism, and argues the U.S. should buy the land outright and push a canal within five to six years. A Healy portrait of De Lesseps hangs in Appleton’s Beacon Street apartment.
W L Sachteleben of Alton Illinois and Thomas G Allen of Ferguson Missouri completed a world bicycle journey. They started in Vancouver and landed in Liverpool July 4 1890 touring Britain France Italy Greece Turkey Persia China and Japan. They claim to be the first Americans to scale Mount Ararat and to have traversed modern routes with stops at Teheran Shanghai and Yokohama before sailing home December 9.
Bartimore Maryland December 29 A H Hosmer and E W Rouse grand officers of the Iron Hall organization were arrested today following a request from Indianapolis police. Governor Chase of Indiana had signed requisitions for all indicted grand officers facing embezzlement charges estimated around $200 000. Supreme Ruler Somerby is also under inquiry.
An inmate named Dunlap walked free at 10 am after a pardon. A confidant, speaking as a sister figure, said she had promised to seek further clemency and hoped for future possibilities. She noted Dunlap’s vague plans, army service, Chicago years, and unclear prior records, with no confirmed family ties.
After fifteen years in prison Dunlap walks free under protection of Mrs. Scott Rowland. She recalls aiding his release, noting her late husband Scott founded support networks including Robert Pinkerton, ex-Governor Long, and Northampton Bank officials. Rowland plants a ring on Dunlap as the trio depart in a carriage.
Dunlap and Mrs. Rowland departed yesterday afternoon for New York. He is expected to head to Chicago to start a business, aided by Pinkertons who have offered to advance funds and monitor him. Mrs. Rowland guarantees he will lead an upright life and proves potential as a businessman.
The Boston Young Men's Congress held a mid session dinner at the United States Hotel with thirty members present. Speaker B C Lane presided under Toastmaster Ernest T Capen and toasts covered topics from the Republican party to the ladies and absentees. Distinguished guests included Alderman-elect Alpheus Sanford and Councilman William Berwin. The thirty second session begins Monday January 2 at Rathbone Hall 694 Washington Street at 7 30 PM.
Thomas A. Donnelly known as Uncle Tom to newspaper boys died yesterday at 67 after 30 years with Police Station 2. He worked on Newspaper Row, leaves a widow and six children including Frank H. and Frederick. Funeral set for Saturday from Devon Street residence in Roxbury.
Peter Campbell, a 20 year old from Malden, vanished after leaving his home at Oake land and West streets to work at a rubber shop last Saturday noon. He quit work at noon and has not been seen since. He wore a black overcoat and dark suit, standing about 5 feet 8 inches. The case was reported only last evening, fueling Local gossip.
Washington December 29 Dr Johnston reported that Blaine's condition had improved compared with prior mornings and was as good as the previous night. A later call from the Blaine residence said he was much better.
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