Half Million Bonus for Adopting Ball
The National League adopted a $500000 bonus for using a specific league ball and signed a 20 year contract with a prominent sporting goods firm for official league baseballs. The plan rearranges East West trips with rotating weekends and limits repeated visits by the same visiting club. President Thomas J. Lynch's salary rose from $9000 to $10000.
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New York
National League of Professional Baseball Clubs
Thomas J. Lynch
Baseball League Holds Fast Ball Choice And Schedule
The National League sticks with the same ball after rejecting a $825,000 offer from Cincinnati. The season begins in 1912 with a 89,735 mile schedule across nine clubs including Chicago facing nine Sunday conflicts. Chicago protests the plan though it proceeds, with varied mileage and limited doubleheaders to balance travel and matchups.
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Chicago
Boston
Brooklyn
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Ston
West
Ekach Hastern
Drey
Page Stock on Market in Boston Club Rumor
Rumor spread that L Coues Page vice president of the Boston National League club plans to dispose of his stock while in New York. Reports claim a rift with President Russell, possibly resolved by one quitting, though Page supporters deny any sale intent.
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L. Coues Page
Boston National League Baseball Club
New York
Russell
Page
Gossip for the Motorist and Auto Industry Notes
News notes on figures like Colonel George M Studebaker and C F Reddin visiting Boston auto HQs. Car clubs plan a dancing party at Paul Revere Hall. A hearing on driver's license bills is set for Feb 27 at the State House. Industry chatter covers exports to Canada and AAA tours, with Würzburg-tinged tours under discussion.
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The
Automobile Operators’ Club of
New England
Paul Revere Hall
Committee On Roads and Bridges
State House
Winchester Girls Win Fast Game 39 25
The Winchester High School girls basketball team defeated Melrose 39 to 25 in a tense contest at the Melrose Y M C A gym yesterday afternoon. Standouts for Winchester were Miss Spalding and Miss Flynn, while Melrose's best were Miss Hoyt and Miss Blake.
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Winchester High School
Melrose High School
Melrose Y. M. C. A
Spalding
Flynn
Melrose
Hoyt
Blake
Harvard Yale Freshmen Relay Rematch Planned At Carnival
Harvard and Yale freshman relay teams will race again at the Harvard athletic carnival on Thursday evening at Mechanics Building. The earlier race was won by Harvard by about 20 yards but the team was disqualified for not touching hands by the third and fourth relay runners. Yale claims the prize, while the Harvard captains arrange a rematch with over 100 runners reporting at Soldiers Field on the board track.
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Harvard
Yale
Mechanics’ Building
Kilpatrick
Dick Floyd
Soldiers Field Board
Interclass relay race featured at Harvard carnival
Fifteen men per team compete in interclass relays at Mechanics Building on Feb. 23. Captains head the squads with Harvard's 390 yard quartet trained to face a strong Boston club lineup. Other events include sprints hurdles sacks high jump shot put wrestling and fencing with university title bouts and open participation for undergraduates and grads.
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Nold
Mechanics
Herbert Jaques, Jr
W H. Fernald
H. P. Lawless
W. L. Allen, Jr
Harvard
Reggie Foster
D. P. Ranney
W. H. Fernald
H. W. Kelley
Princeton
Brown
E. K. Merrihew
W. C. Prout
Harry Lee
F. P. O’hara
Boston
New York Athletic Club
Harvard Law School
Yale
Hemenway Gymnasium
Pan
Lothrop Withington
Page
Osgooa
MacLaughlin
Hunt
Moore
Wilbur
Veteran baseball magnate Carlos Smith dies at 77
New Haven Connecticut February 15 Carlos Smith one of the oldest baseball magnates and founder of organized baseball in Connecticut is dead at 77. In the early seventies with Birds Eye Lake he secured the New Haven franchise when the club was in the National League and ran the team for many years.
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New Haven
Conn
Carlos Smith
Connecticut
Birdseye Lake
Jake Stahl Retires From Baseball to Focus on Banking
Chicago February 15 Jake Stahl announces retirement from baseball and will not return as Boston Red Sox first baseman. Stahl, vice president of the Washington Park National Bank, says business opportunities outweigh a return to the diamond. Managers and magnates finish AL schedule meeting with no trades.
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RED Sox
Lach
Chicago
Jake Stahl
Pat Donovan
Stahl
Bostons
Donovan
Washington Park National Bank
Los Angeles
Ben Shibe
The
Athletics
John Shibe
Connie Mack
Automobile Club
Philadelphia
Chester Waite
White Sox
Springfield
Mass
Harvard to Resume Carlisle Football in Crimson Schedule
Local sports columnist notes Carlisle’s return to Harvard’s football slate and praises the Indians as a standout feature of the season. Mentions planned relay matches with N Y A C and Tech, and recalls historic middle distance feats by Burke and Meyers while previewing the Baxter mile in New York.
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Crimson
Warner
Braves
Johnny Harvard
Cambridge
Harvard
New York
Bennie Osthues
Coast Guards
Irvington Armory
The
Fast Tech
Osthues
Readers column on the Hunter mile and Baxter race
Arthur Daufe 15 Column notes a reader query answered by Mr Duffey in the Post. The discussion centers on who finished first in the Hunter mile, with Harmon or Kiviat, and asserts the Baxter race strategy is to keep all competitors behind.
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Duffey
Harmon
Oscar
Baxter
A’s win and tie decide cup in three game baseball plan
In a noted dispute a silver cup was to be won by a three game series. The A’s won the first game and tied the second, leading to an agreed end to further play. The opinion favored awarding the cup to the A’s, with additional comments on sports introspective matters.
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A’s
Charlie Street
Washington
Blair
New York
Sullivan
Chicago
Americus 10 Arrive Today for Gotch Title Bout
Americus arrives in Boston from Baltimore to resume training for Monday night match with Champion Frank Gotch at Mechanics Building. He plans rest and gym work to sharpen form and believes he can push Gotch to his limit after a Western tour. Ali Wassan trains for a West tour and eyes a finish with Perelli, confident after Hassan’s recent edge in prior bouts.
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Boston
Baltimore
Frank Gotch
Gotch
Kansas City
Ali Wassan
Perelli
Hassan
Eddie Shevlin
Roxbury
Harry Powers
Brooklyn
Lawrence
Shevlin
Merrimac Valley
Donahue
New York
Eddie
New England
Donohue
Powers
Jim Moriarty
South End Sports
Town
Wesleyan Defeats Brown in Slow 48 to 29 Game
Wesleyan University edged Brown 48 to 29 in a slow, one sided basketball contest in Middletown Connecticut. The halftime score stood Wesleyan 24 Brown 5.
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Wesleyan
BROWN
Middletown
Conn
Wesleyan University
Papke No Longer a Middleweight
Boxing weights and class rules are debated as Papke and other fighters move between weight limits. The piece notes Papke’s status as a former middleweight contender, Clabby and Thompson’s weight stories in Australia, and upcoming bouts featuring Eddie Shevlin, Harry Powers, Tom Sawyer, and Andy Morris versus Jack Fitzgerald.
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America
Pat Moore
Packy McFarland
Willie Lewis
Sam Langford
England
Australia
Bill Papke
Johnny Thompson
Jimmy Clabby
Ray Bronson
Papke
Stanley Ketchel
Clabby
Cyclone Johnny Thompson
Dave Smith
Mark Higgins
Thompson
Mehegan
Grand Exalted Ruler Hermann Dues Today
Grand Exalted Ruler August Herrmann arrives this afternoon at 3 00 with a delegation of Elks and Boston Printers Baseball Association committee to meet him. A reception at the Elks Home follows at 5 00 with a banquet at 6 00 at the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company armory. The event is informal due to the early hour.
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Elks
Boston Union Printers’ Baseball Association
John S. Taylor
Boston Club
Hugh McBreen
Thomas McCarthy
Charles Ixelley
Hermann
Cincinnati Union
Elks’ Home
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Willoughby Beats Ed Rizen Twice in City Wrestling Show
Walter Willoughby of Cleveland defeated Ed Rizen of Pittsburgh in two fast middleweight bouts at the Columbia Theatre. Rizen started strong but Willoughby used strategic holds and counter moves to pin and win each match, showing superior generalship.
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Columbia Theatre
Walter Willoughby
Cleveland
Ed Rizen
Pittsburg
Izen
Willoughby
Rizen
Newton Y M C A Wins From Brockton Five
The Newton Y M C A basketball team defeated the Brockton Y M C A in the second game of a four game series for the state championship by 15 to 13. The fast, clean contest at Newton gym featured Butters with two baskets from the far end.
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Newton Y. M. C. A
Brockton Y. M. C. A
Newton
Butters
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