Tooker Wins Third Match In Spring Championship
In New York on February 13, C. L. Perkins and J. S. Tooker contested the spring championship third match at the racquet and tennis club. Tooker captured the 2nd, 4th, and 5th games to win 12-15 15-6 10-15 15-10. Totals show Tooker with more aces and hands, and schedule notes list forthcoming matches against E. La Montague Jr., and J. Hoyt actions with Perkins and Hoyt.
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New York
C. L. Perkins
J. S. Tooker
Boston
Mr. Tooker
Tooker
Perkins
E. Laontague, Jr
J. S. Hoyt
J. Hoyt
E. la Montague, Jr
Charlestown Cycle Club Opens New Rooms on South Eden Street
The Charlestown Cycle Club moved into its new South Eden Street rooms on Feb 1 after nearly two years in Read's block and held a housewarming with music, a collation and a dance. Founders C R Hutchinson and F N Hurley have led the club since its organization on uly 4 93. The club plans monthly entertainment and has hosted two road races and two dances in its existence. Bowling results from the night list Maiden Wheelmen 2060, Chel a Cycle Club 1974, Mt. Pleasant 2182, and others with upcoming matches against Massachusetts Bicycle, Berkeley Hall, and more.
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Charlestown
Garden City
Herrt Strahan
Messrs
Kempton Johnson
A. Thayne
Mr. Iper
William Frances
Professor Parker
Everett Rmerly
C. C
Maiden
Chela Cycle Club
Mt. Pleasants
Vents
Massachusetts
Berkeley Hall
Suffolk
Orienta Hall
Roxbury
A. C
Press Vs. Rovers
Eagles Medfords
Yachting Notes From The New York Y C And Harbor
The schooner Gitana of the New York Yacht Club was in Vicetown on Tuesday while the steam yacht Silva, built by Seabury and Co, has been sold to Jesse Metcalf of Providence and is at Nyack undergoing deck additions and interior alterations. A proposed race between Judge and Vamoose after June 1 offers 1090 in winnings split with Sailors Snug Harbor Home, with Chauncey Depew as possible stake holder. Norseman has been renamed Alsacienne by Caius Bragg after Ogden Goelet sold the vessel with retainment of the original name in mind for potential future use.
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Gitana
Percival N. Clement
Boston Foreston
West Indies
Vicetown
Silva
Seabury & Co
F. C. Fowler
Jesse Metcalf
Providence
Nyack
W. J. Arkell
Frank T. Morrill
Vamoose
Snug Harbor
Arkell
Chauncey M. Depew
Ogden Goelet
Norseman
Caius C. Bragg
Goelet
Bragg
Carbane Sentenced Eight Months for Assault Case
Dominick Carbane pleaded guilty to assault and battery with intent to murder after a Christmas Day incident on Prince Street. Judge Lilley sentenced him to eight months in the House of Corrections for the crime linked to Sarah Regan, who was confined to Massachusetts General Hospital for three weeks.
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Dominick Carbane
Sarah Regan
Prince Street
Massachusetts General Hospital
Carne
Lilley Sterday
Entries at New Orleans horse races listed with prices and runners
A historic New Orleans racing card shows multiple races from five-eighths to seven-eighths of a mile. Entries include horses like Festival John Cucha Coria and Tippecanoe Gleesome Miss Primero Henry Owsley and Jim Henry with various selling prices and weights.
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Anna McNairy
Festival
Lebanto
John Cucha
Coria
ee_man
Rancocas
Dave Pulsifer
G. B. Cox
Jacko
Fallowday
Wanda
Emp
Billet
Loftin, Jr
Elberon
Kindora
Bill White
Tippecanoe
Gleesome
Miss
Primero
Henry Owsley
A Legrande
Taylor Hayden
Jim
Alethia Allen
Bess McDuff
White
Jim Henry
Bedford
Fakir
Mollie B
Francis Pope
Beatifice
Horse Race Results From An Unclear Meet
A racing card lists races at four and a half furlongs and a mile with multiple entries and weights. Names such as Hag Tay Uno Grande Watch Charm Jolly Boy te Carlo Lillian L Dorcas L appear with varying weights. Other races mention William Penn Jewel Miss Castle ter Jackson Juliet Grey t Holyport King Bird May Psyche and more, with several missing weights and fragmented entries.
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Ick
Hag Tay
Uno Grande
Watch Charm
Jolly Boy
Te Carlo
Lillian L
Dorcas L
Illiam Penn
Jewel
Miss Castle
Ter Jackson
Juliet
Greyt
Holyport
King Bird
Psyche
Key Pat
Cadet
John McGarigle
Brilliant
India Rubber
Halcyone
Billy Boy
Maid Ellise
Judge
Grange Came
Phil Daly
Zingari
Faith Shawmut Ave Cure Claim Ad
An advertisement promises disease cures claiming offerings on blood disorders sexual disease and other illnesses with money back if not cured. It touts “regular physicians’ diplomas” and confidential treatment while urging sufferers to call or write for opinions. Hours listed 9 to 4 and 6 to 8.
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Ana Etazap
Harvard to Build New Diamond at Holmes Field
Harvard athletics departments move toward Soldiers Field with Holmes field to host varsity baseball and track this season. The varsity and freshman squads will practice on Soldiers field early, with a temporary diamond between the football enclosure and the street. The varsity will shift to Holmes field once dry, while the freshman nine stays on Soldiers field. The lacrosse team uses varsity football grounds.
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Harvard
Soldiers’ Field
Holmes Field
University Nine
Soldiers Field
Boxing Gossip Fills Farragut Club Card at Bumstead Hall
The Farragut Athletic Club event at Bumstead Hall aims for a large crowd with a two preliminaries including a twenty round bout McCoy versus Duffy and a fifteen round main between Boston’s Jimmy Kaveny and Woonsocket’s Young Heenan. Other items include Maher’s confident stance against Hall, Quinn leaving Maher’s camp, and multiple six and ten round matches tied to Chelsea and East Boston fighters.
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Bumstead Hall
McCoy
Duffy
Boston
Jimmy Kaveny
Young Heenan
Woonsocket
Lynn
Billy Smith
Smith
Billy Hennessey
Peter Maher
Joe Walcott
Jim Hall
John J. Quinn
Maher
Pittsburg
New York
Steve O'Donnell
Quinn
Billy Brady
Phil Smith
John McCarthy
Roxbury
John Soley
Tommy Carter
Soley
Carter
Chicago
Ryan
Dan Creedon
Creedon
Dickeybirds
Bert McIntire
Charles Hill
West End
H. Lewis
Chelsea
Charlesbank
Patsey Finnegan
East Boston
Steve Mahoney
Pastime Athletic Club
Pat Doherty
Brockton
Ike Weir
Belfast
Starlight
Frank Erne
James Boutelle
King Philip Club
Providence
Patsey Broderick
Jimmy Boyle
Broderick
Boyle
Wiley Evans
California
England
Ed Holske
Evans
America
Cincinnati Enquirer
Harry Weldon
Henry Hofdank
Denny Sullivan
Rob Roy
Boston Fencing Club Seeks Wider Facilities and Members
The club plans to secure new quarters in a desirable location and expand its complex to include racquets, handball, bowling, and a pistol range along with fencing. A cafe would be added, keeping social functions and the club’s family character, and it would resemble the New York Racquet and Tennis Club without pursuing boxing or athletics.
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Boston
New York
Harvard Freshman Crew Elects F. L. Ames Captain
F. L. Ames of Boston was chosen captain of Harvard's freshman crew yesterday. A Groton School graduate, he rowed on the Groton crew and later played for the freshman football squad before an injury forced him to retire from the tackle position. He rows No. 7 on the first crew.
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Harvard
F. L. Ames
Boston
Groton School
Captain Baudelon Praised After La Gascogne Voyage
Mrs. Fish of Brookline returns from La Gascogne with her husband and recounts a storm tossed voyage. Crew and passengers endured fierce seas with sailors lashed to decks and boats inspected for readiness. Captain Baudelon’s calm leadership and meticulous preparation drew praise as the ship neared Sandy Hook and crowds greeted the returning passengers.
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Charles C. R. Fish
Boston
la Gascogne
Baudelon
Sandy Hook
Final clearance sale at Gilchrist Co. coats and suits
Gilchrist Co. at 5 and 7 Winter Street advertises a final clearance on ladies coats capes and suits with large cuts. Long jackets drop from 8.50 to 3.75 and 22 to 10, waists from 1.50 1.75, old ladies capes 5 from 10 15, cloth suits 2.50 from 7.50 10, all wool suits 7.50 from 12.50 15.
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Gilchrist & Co
Winter Street
Backache Signals Kidney Trouble and Cure Claim
An old advertisement asserts backache is a symptom of disease and stresses early treatment for kidney trouble. It promotes Baker's Kidney Pills as a vegetable remedy available from druggists for 50 cents, with a book about backache on request.
Beer lauds a hall dance turns into liquor raid in Chicago
A Bakers' Union No 4 fundraiser at 4 Eliot Street drew about 700 attendees with tickets at 50 cents. Guests paid 50 cents more for ad lib liquor, prompting Captain Brown and Officers Forbes Giblin and Greeley to intervene. Four men Charles Strauss Adam Ensling Charles Kaler Ignaz Schuirmacher were arrested on liquor selling without a license after officers seized about fifty gallons of beer and related paraphernalia.
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Eliot Street
Bakers’ Union No. 4
Brown
Forbes
Giblin
Greeley
Captain Brown
Clark
Municipal Criminal Court
Christ's Coming at Prophetic Adventist Convention
The People's Temple housed a crowded prophetic gathering with ministers from Steven son Alabama Biddeford Maine Boston and Portland sharing lectures on Adventist prophecies. They urged action on Armenian massacre and honored Rev. A. J. Gordon. A large collection followed the day’s religious program.
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Second Adventists
J. A. Cargile
Stevenson
Ala
F ¥. Burr
D. T. Call
Biddeford
Mr. Grant
Boston
Daniel
Washington
Foreign Office
London
Armenia
Piper
A. J. Gordon
N. P. Cook
Chelsea
F. Burr
Burr
Connecticut
Christ
E. P. Woodward
Portland
Veterans at Springfield encampment opens with 700 delegates
The twenty eighth annual Massachusetts Grand Army encampment began in Springfield with Department Commander Wilfred A. Wetherbee presiding. About seven hundred delegates filled the hall and two hundred visitors watched as credentials were reviewed and debates arose on how to select delegates to the Louisville national encampment.
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Springfield
Massachusetts Department of the Grand Army
Wilfred A. Wetherbee
Committee On
Louisville
Frank E. Farnham
Peabody
House of Lords
Woman’s Relief Corps
Lore Stuart Wadsworth
Boston
Emma Wallace
Chicago
Return of George Wilson to the Bijou for Our Uncle Dudley
The return of George Wilson to the Bijou Opera House on Monday will feature his amusing impersonation of Dudley Fullalove in the English farce Our Uncle Dudley. Wilson, a veteran leading actor at the Boston Museum, will be supported by Marie Cahill, Trixie Friganza, Agnes Farnum, Louise Horner, and others in a cleverly constructed play first staged in London as The Noble Art.
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George Wilson
Bijou Opera
Dudley Fullalove
Dudley
Wilson
Boston Museum
Casey Little Bijou
London
Terry’s Theatre
Hille Norwood
Mr. Wilson
Marie Cahill
Trixie Friganza
Agnes Farnum
Louise Horner
Louis R. Grisel
Earle Browne
W. R. McKey
Harold Leslie
Master James Devlin
Frank Currier
Mary Anderson
Julia Marlowe
Touchstone
New French Consul Arrives in Boston
M. Camille Jordan arrives to assume the role of French consul in Boston replacing M. Eugene Thiebaut. Jordan and his wife traveled aboard La Normandie and spent the day making official calls on Collector Warren the Mayor and Governor Greenhalge.
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M. Camille Jordan
Boston
M. Eugene Thiebaut
M. Jordan
la Normandie
Warren
Greenhalge
Martin's Companions Discharged After Sleigh Ride Incident
George Martin remained critically ill at City Hospital after a stabbing in South Boston. Six of twenty two workers involved in the sleigh ride were discharged by order of the general manager, with a hearing called at North Point stables to determine blame. Martin identified Norton as the assailant to his wife.
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George Martin
South Boston
City Hospital
West End Street Railroad
Tripp
North Point
Martin
Norton
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