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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1905
Page
3
New York readers report the Automobile Show in Madison Square Garden attracts the largest crowd ever with brisk sales at most booths. Dealers note deliveries in order of receipt and several notable orders including two racing cars for the Vanderbilt Cup by E. H. R. Green.
Conway reports Happy Jack Chesbro will not depart for the South early as alleged. He will report to Harvard on February 15 to coach pitchers under Clark Griffith and Willie Keeler will train the Harvard batters. They will remain in Cambridge until mid March or early April before joining the New York team in the South.
A white limousine sold to J Reed Whipple of Boston by George H Lowe. E C Thompson and Edwin Chapman of Boston bought Thomas flyers. The largest engine shown is the Model A Winton with 615 six inch cylinders producing 40 to 50 horsepower. Lew is Ray Sphere of Newton leads the Bay State Automobile Association at the show. The Winton display features ebb lights and festoons with a white silk backdrop resembling an opera house curtain. Prices range from 75 to 8000 dollars for cars including a locomobile sold by J A McAlman to S T Haywood of Franklin. At Waldorf last night the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers held a vaudeville entertainment and smoking concert attended by many.
A Barre fox evades Brunswick Fur Club guns by staying just out of range during the annual winter hunt. One shell struck him from behind but he quickly recovered and hid in the covers as half a dozen hunters left Hotel Barre for a brief pursuing session.
Honey Mellody of Charlestown meets Fred Douglas of Savannah Ga in a 15 round welterweight clash at Highland A C Marlboro tomorrow night. Mellody rises as New England's top promoter with a rapid rise from local clubs to West title contention, while Douglas is among the era’s best welterweights. Special cars will transport Boston fans to Marlboro for the first local appearance since Mellody’s Western success.
Chelsea gears up for a boxing season with two clubs sharing venue at Granite Hall. Kid Goodman and Harry Lewis headline the opening card. Chick Tucker is sidelined by illness. Langford-Gunther headline in Chelsea and Salem bouts plus a slate of preliminaries feature fighters from Boston, Philadelphia, Brockton, Lynn, and Worcester.
Harvard and Yale clash in the B A A games with a flagship long relay race. Each Harvard and Yale man runs 780 yards in a two mile relay as team candidates vie for spots. Harvard also to race Pennsylvania in a 390 yard relay as part of a larger scaled meet featuring New England colleges.
Roxbury Latin meets Stone School at Franklin Field this afternoon to decide which squad earns top place in the Academic Hockey league. Roxbury Latin practiced yesterday while Stone rested. kickoff is at 3 30.
Chairman Billings of the athletic committee of the B A A abandoned the proposed race between high school sprinters and preparatory runners after trials on Holmes Field. Only ten high school boys and three Roxbury Latin sprinters tried. A meeting at Mechanic Arts High today at 8 o clock will finalize plans for a Boston high school track league.
William E. McCue defeated Kid Taylor 100 to 92 at Bob McEachern's Billiard and Pool Parlor. Fish ares challenged the winner to a rematch. Kansas City introduces new pitcher Eeels with Shorty McCuish predicting strong hitting next summer.
Heavyweight fighter Jack Root says no man exists today who can defeat James J Jeffries. if Root beats Marvin Hart he would not challenge Jeffries, calling Hart and other contenders mere hot air and praising Jeffries as unbeatable unless he dissipates or overweights. Root notes Hart Fitzsimmons Corbett Gotch Rose Ferguson among those claiming to beat Jeffries.
In Boston Jimmy Collins retreats from baseball life while in town for a social visit. He has not contacted owner Taylor or the American League offices in three weeks, avoiding interviews and club ties though no hard feelings exist. He prefers politics and war talk over baseball and emphasizes healthy criticism after a rough game season.
Rochester reports editor W H Sampson of the Post Express conducted a national balloting of prominent whist players. Ten players led by Harry H Ward of Boston Beverly W Smith of Baltimore and David Muhlfelder of Albany appear in America's first whist rankings by vote percentage.
The Post features a photo of Michael J. Lynch of Cambridge taken by Carl J. Horner of 11 Winter Street for the newspaper. Horner runs the nation’s largest baseball photo collection, capturing every big league player who visited Boston last season.
Harvard’s hockey team defeated the Springfield Training School by 18 to 0 at Soldiers Field. The Crimson opened with 16 points in the first half and then eased up to test defense. Seller in goal for the visitors stood out with superb saves. Townsend starred for Harvard.
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