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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1912
Page
8
For the first time McGill University of Montreal and Yale will face each other in athletic competition when their hockey teams play at the Boston Arena next Wednesday night. The event, titled International Night, is expected to draw hockey fans, officials, and club members from Boston and surrounding areas.
McGill University tops Canadian hockey, but this year Harvard and McGill missed a date. Negotiations continue for a possible later meeting. The big local game is McGill versus Yale on New Year’s night with several other Arena matches including Dartmouth vs Technology and McGill vs B A A seven. Hobey Baker leads Princeton against Dartmouth, drawing a large crowd.
The funeral for Patsy Sheppard, noted sportsman, was held at St James Catholic Church in Boston. He lay in state at the Elks Home on Somerset Street before burial at Mt Hope Cemetery. Attendees included former trainers, officials, and Elks brothers with pallbearers from the Elks lodge.
In Chicago on December 29, a statement expresses regret that Dean Le Baron Briggs of Harvard and the National Collegiate Athletic Association disapproves of the coach’s baseball methods. The speaker notes college teams differ from professionals in spirit and strategy, arguing professionals play for daily necessity and public demand for effort.
Dean Briggs speaks of his coaching style and offers apologies for past displeasure while wishing a happy new year. Sam Crawford joins Detroit for the 1912 season, praised as hardworking and a credit to baseball. The note defends Evers as manager and recalls Ben Smith and lineage in Newark and Connecticut league ties.
A note states that the team’s mascot and Jennings are at a tryout. The act was written by John C. Peebles, once a Boston newspaper man, now active in New York theater.
The 1912 athletic year crowned Harvard in football Williams in baseball Pennsylvania in track and field and Cornell in rowing. A table lists champions across 14 sports with Harvard Yale Princeton Cornell and others cited for various titles.
Arthur Duffey praises a strong local lineup for the junior A A U championships on January 4 in New York. He highlights Harvard’s Charley Brickley Huntington Hardwick and Irving Howe of North Dorchester along with Dartmouth’s Larry Whitney and Boston’s Joe Silva as top contenders, noting Whitney’s Olympic contention and Howe’s quarter mile prowess.
The Malden U. and A. C. postpones this evening’s bouts with no new date set. The reader asks for ages of Luther McCarty and Al Palzer, listed as 20 and 21. Clarification on Ketchel’s knockouts of Mike Sullivan and Jack Sullivan is provided, with dates and rounds. A basketball score prediction debate ends with the home team winning 18-8.
Baseball fans praised the Sunday Post feature profiling Red Sox third baseman Larry Gardner at his Enosburg Falls home. Critics called the piece well factual, novel in style, and enhanced by home photographs. The series will continue with other New England players in upcoming issues, promising more illustrated home profiles.
Harvard will begin early work as the sole Crimson athletic body active this week. In a week, general activity starts across most Harvard sports at Cambridge, with preparations underway across departments for the upcoming season.
Plans outline early season work for crew track and baseball. Jim Wray leads university and freshman crews with a assistant coach to handle freshmen. practice on machines and in tank until river opens. Pooch Donovan to begin track work after holidays. winter carnival on board track. BA A meet Feb 8% entries. baseball squads to train in cage starting February with battery practice after mid year. outdoor play will begin when weather allows.
With Christmas week past, bowling leagues resume, advancing toward the home stretch of schedules. Most leagues observed a holiday layoff, but the activity kept interest from dropping far.
The Newtowne team showed strong form in the Newton league by defeating Arlington two of three games and setting season records with a team total of 2720 and an individual 971. Kemp led the surge with three strings 204 199 and 204 totaling 607, lifting Newtowne in the standings amid candlepin play and holiday schedules.
Fred Clarke says he may wear a uniform and return to the game next year. The remark comes as another holiday season victim note, implying impact on his decision and plans.
After a quiet period due to holidays the schoolboy season restarts with hockey taking priority over track and basketball. Arlington and Melrose contend for the state title while Newton and Rindge Tech field strong squads. Boston parks will host regulated rinks aiding a two division league and notable prep teams such as Latin English and Mechanic Arts.
Framingham reports Marty O'Toole of the Pittsburg National League team will marry Rose Heffernan of Saxonville tomorrow morning at St George's Church Saxonville. Rev Richard Burke will perform the ceremony with Alice Heffernan as bridesmaid and John O'Toole as best man. After a Bermuda trip the couple will live in Boston before spring training with the Pirates.
At the annual meeting next month the American Association will consider reducing the playing schedule from 168 to 164 games.
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