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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1905
Page
3
The Somerset City league last week honored top bowling scores with a roll of honor showing the high individual total achieved in league matches played at Candle Pins.
Best scores from last week show team and individual marks in Candle Pins and Battle. Carruth leads team total with 1439 and individual 501, Henry Jouve posts 319, Dr J K Simson earns 630 total and 233 single, Arlington Boat Club’s 2669 team total and Charlestown 942 team single.
Dr. James K. Simson of Roxbury 13 leads in Boston Pin and Gilt Edge bottle pin leagues. He already holds three records and recently scored a 233 single string and 680 total in a Dudley Club match against Newtowne, setting season marks. Earlier he posted a 328 triple string for Old Dorchester in the Boston Pin league.
E A Gilmore led a Boston show committee midnight run to the Auburndale Inn. About 35 guests joined the Rambler car procession to welcome the New Year.
Charlestown captured the Mystic Valley bowling league championship by three games over Arlington Boat, with Melrose third five games behind. Arlington protested the win claiming rubber under Charlestown mats skewed scores, but the protest is unlikely to succeed. Team honors went to Arlington at 2744 pins with a single 974. Saunders led the 999th A. A. five with 616 and 23. Simson of Dudley topped the Gilt Edge league with 283 and 630.
The record lists standings and individual batting and bowling averages across multiple teams including W. LL. Ave, Chsn, Melrose, Glendon, and Dudley with players such as J. Puffer Charlestown and King Charlestown. It shows team records and top performers in A. B. C. and 999th leagues, plus bowling and billiards standings by location.
A dense OCR fragment lists names such as Carruth Somerset City Hall Rexford Boyle Webster St. James Hub McCarthy Clark Boylston Billy Kess Carruth Lane M. I. Chuck Brown Burdett Finnegan Mullen Harriman with assorted decimal figures and percentages, resembling a financial or roster table from a historical pages.
The snippet lists players and scores across teams such as Allston Malden Carruth M. I Noddle Winthrop Sudbury Everett Pythian and hedge named athletes. Figures show wins losses and pin counts with names like Brown Cole Rouse Chuck Kirk Finnegan Burns Burdett Donnelly across teams Pythian M I and Carruth.
The Academic Interscholastic and Preparatory School leagues schedule key matchups. Stone's School faces De Merritte at Franklin Field while English High tangles with Melrose High at Melrose. Cambridge Latin meets Newton High at Cambridge in the Preparatory league.
In two short months ball players will travel to the South by train. Freeman or Selbach divides opinion for bench duty. Shettsline, new Quakers president, targets the American league and receipts. In St Louis the silver-topped hammers reference Jesse Burkett. McNichols wants Boston move and may return to minors. Kobe Ferris fishes yearround and has caught colds from winter ice fishing.
A busy boxing gossip column notes Kid McCoy’s canceled Los Angeles bout with Jack Sullivan amid suspicions of a staged rematch scheme. It also reports Chelsea’s Douglas A C will feature Young Erne versus Chester Goodwin next Friday, Gloucester A C postponing Jan 16, and potential bouts including Frankie Neil against Jimmy Walsh with a push to clear stock from Ideal Tailoring Co.
The 10 round bout between Charley O Rourke known as one of New England’s best boxers and George Gunther nicknamed the Melbourne Kangaroo attracts local interest. Gunther is an unknown quantity after a win over Billy Hill while O Rourke struggles to make weight and recent activity. The bout is set for Cambridge A A tonight with uncertain outcome drawing strong boxing follower attention.
The Greater Boston Interscholastic Basketball League opens with Dorchester vs East Boston at East Boston, West Roxbury vs Boston Latin at West Roxbury, and Mechanic Arts vs Brighton at Brighton. English High vs Mechanic Arts follows at Montgomery Street drill hall.
Goodwin of Chelsea, New England featherweight champion, will box Erne of Philadelphia at the Chelsea club Friday at Pythian Rink. Erne, though not as strong as Kid Goodman, is a fast, new challenger with a notable past including a 20 round bout with Abe Attell. The card features two strong preliminaries and is expected to draw a full attendance of members.
The report notes Gunther's rapid rise in Boston boxing and the Kangaroo's powerful punch. It suggests O Rourke may struggle to break through Kangaroo's rugged defense. Two six round preliminaries feature Danny Shea versus Tommy Hennessey and Posahontas facing Goliath Jones.
Lexington reports Jake Greenberg became the purchaser of a bargain colt bought for $75 at public sale in July 1908 by L. V. Bellew. The horse earned $5290 in purses this year, with Bellew’s fortune growing from the colt’s success and track records at Latonia.
In Waltham on January 1 the pumping tests at the Roberts reservation were ordered stopped after a month of operation. The tests cost $2000 and aimed to gauge local water resources to support a larger city water supply. removal of equipment has begun.
Chicago readers hear a controversial proposal to classify boxing bouts as dramatic acts to bypass ordinances. The example imagines stars Tommy Mowatt and Billy Finucane staged as part of a theatrical plot involving a kidnapped child and ransom, with dialogue to justify the bout as performance.
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