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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1893
Page
3
Ros Roy exposes a systematic fraud at Guttenburg track where a powerful clique rigs racing to milk money. He details a nationwide scheme placing agents, ciphered bets, and pool rooms to fix events while the public loses on track and in connected books.
Harvard baseball lays out spring trip dates with Penn, Georgetown, Virginia, and Boston League games to follow. Freshman stewards named Charles Brewer and A H Bullock, with tickets for the winter meeting to go on sale Feb 27. Harvard delegates to New York Feb 25 for Intercollegiate Athletic Association: Thompson, Bardeen, and Beals named.
Boston factions boast two world boxing champions George Dixon bantamweight and Johnny Griffin featherweight. Billy Smith eyes 140-pound championship in an international clash and Charley Mitchell plans arrival. Maffit Flaherty attracts rival interest as 145-pound contenders fear him. Ike Weir, the Belfast Spider, shines in recent bouts with Broo opponents.
Rex arrived in state on Monday and took possession of New Orleans as the Mardi Gras celebration continued. The king, led by the Mystic Krewe of Comus, Knights of Momus, and civic and military groups, paraded the city ahead of the evening pageant and ball, marking a grand culmination of festivities into the early hours.
Boston boxing scene reports a stormy Cribb Club meeting with three sparring bouts, the Tracey defeat of Butler in nine rounds, Green besting Tracey in four, and Murphy over Brown in ten. Billy Smith impresses, and Joe Walcott taunts the Tracey winner for a $1000 prize.
John T Graves, editor of the Atlanta Constitution successor to Henry Grady, lectured in Boston on The Reign of the Demagogue. He praised statesmanship, denounced political hucksters, urged youth to serve the State, and cited Gladstone Bright Webster Lincoln Grant and Phillips Brooks as guiding examples.
A Trinity Church social room debate in Boston weighs city ownership of street railways. Trinity Club argues for municipal control citing water works ferries and sewer savings. Old South Club warns of centralized power and corruption risks. Amos Hathaway leads the opposition. both sides present substantial evidence. A light lunch follows debate.
Special to the Post reports results from February fifteenth. Kerry Gow won the first race at six furlongs with time 1 21 4, followed by Xenophon and Belle D in the second. Azrael led the third race at six and one half furlongs, Eleanor and St Patrick close behind. Marcellus won the fourth over Boliver and Sir David. Philura topped the four furlongs with Bow Knot and Miss Marie as runners up. Lucy Clark won the six furlongs selling race with Jeweller and Greg Reese close behind.
Summary of bustling daily racing at Guloucester with six races and multiple selling events. Vendetta leads in race one with 7 to 5 odds while Lum and National also place. Bets include several longshots such as 30 to 1 for National.
The Arlingtons defeated the Review bowlers in an inter-club match at Arlington last evening. Flanders excelled with a grand total of 585, including 213 on the third string.
A joint athletic and boxing meeting is announced for March 21 by Crescent Boat Club and Suffolk Athletic Club to stage competitive events and showcases.
The Cooper Social and Athletic Club presents a major sparring tournament at Music Hall next Monday featuring thirteen special matches. Stars include Kelly and Tolan, Doherty and Leahy, featherweights Jack Fitzgerald and T. J. McHugh, with McHugh known for defeating Carey at the B. A. A. meet and FitzGerald from New York. Open-class entries close February 20. entrance fee is 50 cents.
Montreal February 18 J M Valois wholesale and retail stationer has assigned. Liabilities amount to 65000 with assets nominally 75000.
Providence February 13 Berkeley mill spinners return to work today after a strike. Company officials say the dispute will be amicably settled.
James A. Mann of Norfolk was struck and killed by a New York and New England train at Hyde Park depot while crossing the track. His brother John Mann died earlier at Savin Hill Dorchester. The Hyde Park man, 20, lived on Walter Street and left a widowed mother, a brother, and a sister.
A livewire crash near Boston Beach and Lynn depot at about 5:45 last evening caused a blue flame look as a broken telegraph wire fell onto a trolley wire. It struck a horse but the driver pulled it clear and continued, local emergency crew arriving quickly to fix the fault.
A large New England Telephone Company cable spanning Boylston Street near Berkeley to the Natural History Hall at MIT fell last evening around 6 o'clock. The crash damaged several connections but caused no injuries. The roof escaped unharmed though danger remained if the trolley wire were struck. the night watchman was warned to watch for a possible fire.
Thomas White, 20, of 45 Ellsworth Street Chelsea, is identified as a victim of Sunday's Mystic River drowning. His family confirmed the cap found with the body and note he left home at 11 am to go skating, never returning. He was employed on a United States steamship.
In a detailed speech on Ireland's role in Westminster budgets, Mr Gladstone argues for eighty Irish members with limited voting powers, proposing a unified imperial revenue system and a special Irish fund to cover imperial costs. He warns against prolonged conflict and urges reconciliation to sustain the empire.
After Gladstone’s address Sir Edward Clarke criticizes the bill’s Irish provisions as still unsatisfactory to Ulster. Thomas Sexton and anti Parneillites praise the overall measure though balk at land and veto details as Tory opposition and Ulster Loyalists vow hard resistance. text of the bill expected later in the week.
Time tables from Boston to Albany and Chicago and other connections. Listing No. 2 15 19 5 T leaves Boston various times daily with Buffet and Sleeping Cars to Chicago or St Louis via multiple routes. No. 83 No. 40 43 75 provide service to New York with drawing room cars and dining options. Tickets and schedules available at City Office 252 Washington St. and Kneeland St. station.
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