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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1915
Page
11
Local sports fans rail at the parent body over funding for expenses to the August coast event. Boxers and track men demand fair pay while noting scholarships for top placers and the impact on preparation.
A reader asks where to obtain entry blanks for a meet on the Common and for Franklin Field games on July 6. They address mail to H H C McGrath, Park and Recreation Department, 33 Beacon Street. The letter also discusses double headers and a Pittsburg scoring note from June 26 in the sixth inning.
Joe Rivers of Los Angeles a lightweight faces Gilbert Gallant in a 12 round bout at the Atlas A A next Tuesday night. Both are noted slugging types and expected to deliver a slam bang affair from start to finish.
Gallant is in fine form and ready to press a aggressive Rivers who is built for pace. Rivers has a stiff right hand and a history of fighting hard to the finish. Fans recall Gallant's win over Sam Robideau and expect him to challenge Rivers, who may surge in popularity like Aurelio Herrera.
Dorchester’s Johnny Noonan meets Cambridge’s Howard McRae next Tuesday at the Atlas A A Arena. In their last Gloucester bout the referee favored McRae, drawing hisses from Atlas members and some papers called it a draw or a Noonan win. The Atlas crowd expects a show worth the trip.
Victor Linart of Antwerp won the Golden Wheel race at Revere track covering 43 miles 6 laps. Leon Didier of Paris finished second with 42 miles 2 laps. Other winners included L. C. Rollins in the five mile amateur and Hank Drobach in the three quarters of a mile professional handicap.
The event featured American riders Linart and Didier in a tight finish. Linart surged past Didier to win while Wiley and Carman faded after a rough start and Wiley lost speed from a saddle accident. The race drew over 7000 spectators and the mayor awarded Smart the Golden Wheel and roses.
London June 30 The seven day limit for the munitions workers pledge expires tonight. W E Morgan Lloyd Georges aide reports enrolments have averaged 10 000 per day over the last two days and the voluntary system has justified itself in supplying needed munition workers without coercion.
A news brief notes ongoing mob control in Mexico City with disturbances continuing into Friday June 25 as reported on the first page.
Reports describe the garrison pulling back to resist advance by General Pablo Gonzales as Zapata troops siege the city. Looting and food riots spread while foreigners appear untouched. The capital is cut off by wire and rail for 12 days with about 25 000 Zapatistas facing Gonzales’s well armed forces.
New York June 30 Plans for carrying on a country wide propaganda were decided upon here today at a meeting of the League to Enforce Pence formed recently at a conference at Independence Hall Philadelphia. William Howard Taft honorary chairman President A Lawrence Lowell Harvard University chairman executive committee Theodore Marburg Baltimore and Hamilton Holt New York vice chairmen Herbert S Houston treasurer and William H Short secretary
The management committee outlined a country wide drive to inform the public about the League to Enforce Peace. It clarifies that economic pressure and military force would compel signatory nations to take disputes to the world court, not to war. A home organization committee was formed at today’s meeting.
Judge Alton B. Parker was made chairman and a committee on foreign organization named with Theodore Marburg as chairman. Darwin P. Kingsley of New York was chosen chairman of a committee on finance and Herbert S. Houston led a committee on information. Oscar S. Straus and Professor John Bates Clark of Columbia were made a committee of management.
Worcester June 80 The Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Company grants two cent hourly raise for motor men and conductors and a 6 to 40 percent rise for barn, line and power house staff. Working hours drop from ten to nine. New agreement dated June 1 lasts one year and was ratified by the trolleymen's union tonight.
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