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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1913
Page
10
Harvard hockey suffers the absence of Bill Claflin as a coverpoint for the first game against Princeton at the Boston Arena tomorrow night. The Crimson practiced hard last night showing dash and ginger despite the setback.
Goodale and former Captain Werdell earned tryouts at coverpoint under Coach Winsor and showed strong form. Goodale may start tomorrow with Brown or Wendell as backup. Harvard aims to rebound after Claflin's retirement as Hobe Baker leads Princeton-Dartmouth Tigers against them with speed and skill.
David Janowski and Frank J. Marshall played 36 moves to a draw in the first round of the grand masters tournament. The second round was postponed until tomorrow as the pairings remained unchanged.
News of successes by Zbyszko Lurich Lemsky and other foreign wrestlers and a Boston boom in the sport reaches Alexander Aberg known in Russia as The Lion. The report notes his interest and potential arrival.
Yale Baseball Association president George Bruce Cortelyou Jr. announced a 31 game season starting March 21. Yale opens with Princeton May 31 at home and travels Easter trips to Norfolk and Washington with two games each. They face Holy Cross and Pennsylvania in the South and play the Giants in an exhibition at the Polo Grounds.
Yale Field hosts eighteen possible contests and thirteen at hostile diamonds as scheduling options for a potential tie between Harvard and Princeton in New York.
President Murphy and Manager Evers of the Cubs propose a deal with Montreal International League pitcher Al Mattern formerly with the Boston Nationals. Kitty Bransfield, Montreal manager, favors the deal and may trade Mattern for two batting helpers while Chicago offers no cash, but would send several young players after spring training.
Abetg a 28 year old Finn 6 ft 2 in 246 pounds who has wrestled about a decade and hundreds of bouts says he intends to come to Boston as soon as he can arrange his affairs abroad. He expects time to acclimate before the fall campaign and hopes to challenge Frank Gotch. Lurich and Lemsky, who were in the city last week, call him a dangerous proposition.
Tommy Foley the local lightweight defeated Patsy Delucca in a 16 round bout in Manchester New Hampshire last week and issued a challenge to Freddy Duffey and Gilbert Gallant of Boston or Steve Kennedy of Lawrence and Young Mc Donough of Manchester through manager George Freeman. Freeman says Foley may take on any of the quartet and notes Foley has begun earnest training after previously lacking seriousness about a ring career. A possible bout with Joe Hirst of Philadelphia may be arranged.
Thomas Kinsman Richards of the Class of 1915 has been elected second assistant manager of the Harvard varsity football team. He will advance to first assistant next fall and become manager in his senior year. Richards, 20, lives at Hampden Hall Harvard and lists Spokane, Washington as his home city. He was among the second group of ten admitted to the Dickey Society last week.
Coach Duffey held 320 yard time trials at Columbus avenue for BC varsity and high school relay candidates. Top varsity finisher Dan Sullivan led the list. Hal loran and Captain Alfred Reilly starred among freshmen and high school runners. Reilly earned a bound volume for the best show among the high school group.
Captain Charles Abeles of Harvard announces interclass rowing plan linking Harvard class champions with Yale winners on the Charles near late May. The event aims to boost crew racing interest with a likely fast two mile distance. Harvard had eight varsity candidates last fall.
Yale athlete known as Lefty Flynn did not attend the degree ceremony. He had eloped two weeks earlier and claimed he and his bride remarried in St Patrick's Cathedral to remain in good standing with the Catholic church. He sought to receive the second degree with Captain Spalding and Tommy Cornell from last fall's football eleven and Holladay Philbin, crew captain.
Superintendent Gibbons at Annapolis forbids field and track meets with races longer than a quarter mile and orders crews to limit contests to 1 mile 150 yards. Officials fear fewer opponents and reduced competition for midshipmen athletes.
Ground was broken for Princeton University’s new boat house funded by the class of 1887. The two story brick structure will include 48 shells on the first floor, lockers and showers in the basement, a large clubroom on the second floor, and a new eight oared shell donated by Warden McLean of Philadelphia. A triangular regatta with Harvard and Pennsylvania is planned for May with races set against Columbia and Cornell.
The International Skating Union of America moves its Canadian championship races from Ottawa to Montreal on February 1. Allen S. Blanchard, IRSA president, cites Ottawa’s schedule issues. Revised stops include Cleveland January 22 25 Saranac Lake January 28 30 Montreal February 1 and Boston February 3 4. Eddie McGoorty and Fred Hicks in New York face a chance of a repeat turtle act at the Fairmont A C.
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