Country Club meets open with rich purses and steeplechases
The Country Club opens its big meet with four races including a 0.4 mile flat race, a hurdle race, a two mile steeplechase, and the Duke's Cup. purses total 5000 with weights set for 3 to 6 year olds and winners from 1902 and 1908. Notable entries include Old Fort, Rumshaw, The Ragged Cavalier, and Jim Newman among others.
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Old Fort
Happy Cross
Rumshaw
Ounet
McWilliams
Blue Victor
Home Signal
Browndale
Roxboro
Guy Park
Seminole
Lord Radnor
Ferocious
Ohnet
Philmax Paxton
Enright
Meteorite
Gibson Light
Duke of Abercorn
Plato
Land of Clover
Phlon
Pawnbroker
Tip Gallant
Carrier Pigeon
the Ragged Cavalier
Jim Newman
Rockstorm
Chaos
Rising Sun
Wooster Boy
Bob Alone
Beau Ideal
May Harrison
Mystic Shriner
Higbie
Adjidaumo
Philma Paxton
Astor
Country Club
N. S
H. A
Canadian Hunt Association
Rockstrom
Tchula
Diver
Gortnagallain
Headland
Terrible Terry
the Virginian
Duffer
General Douglas
R. B. Sack
Zenus
H. B
Country Club steeplechase meets attract city’s fashionable crowd
City steeplechase followers gear up for cross country races at the Country Club with 160 horses and a strong entry list. The meet features 69 entries in the main event, large prize purses, and races from 3 p.m. through the afternoon including a Duke’s cup and the challenge cup with notable entrants like Headland and Cametop among the field.
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Country Club
Morris Park
Gravesend
United States
Baseball Notes From Boston and Nearby Games Today
Today's notes cover St. Louis games, Cy pitching for Collins, Emmet Heldrick as leading sacrifice hitter, and the pikers' happiness after yesterday. Merger talk fades with attendance concerns, while Brooklyn clings to rights on pitchers Newton Corbett and Hughes. Dorchester hosts Onak Dale Somerville, Wellingtons and Roxburys clash at Dorchester High Field, and Tom Dolan receives proceeds from Dorchester home game at Nightingale Field.
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St. Louis
Big Cy
Collins
Emmet Heldrick
Browns
Ban Johnson
Tom Dalr- Dolan
Lajoie
Flick
Cincinnati
Philadelphia Nationals
Washington
Henry Killilea
Elberfeld
Cranks
Detroit
New York
Lovells
Dorchester
Onakdale
Somerville
Broadway Athletic Field
Clevelands
Hickman
Tom
Iuddy) Dolan
Fans Doubt League Merger Rumor Across Baseball Cities
Local fans dismiss a Cincinnati sourced story of a two league merger as a warm weather pipe dream. They argue secrecy before any plan, lack of cross club support, and question Ban Johnson and Garry Herrmann influence. Fans cite Boston and Philadelphia as capable of supporting two teams and mock the timing.
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Cincinnati
Ban Johnson
Garry Herrmann
Johnson
National Hermann
Boston
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Chicago
President Pulliam denies NL and AL league merger report
New York June 12 The National League president Pulliam says there is no truth to the Cincinnati rumor of a merger between the National and American leagues. He notes he would know of such an important move and did not hear that Presidents Johnson and Herrmann were to meet.
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New York
Pulliam
National Baseball League
Cincinnati
Johnson
American League
Herrmann
Cincinnati Club
Weather Forces Postponement Of Manchester Trial Race
June 12 Manchester Seawan haka cup candidates did not sail due to 18 to 20 knot easterly winds heavy seas and rain. Judges postponed the race though crews were ready. Racing will resume today at 2 o clock on a windward and leeward course with yachts still moored at Fenton's.
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Manchester
Fenton's
Yachting Fixtures Today Across Several Clubs
Trial races of Seawanhaka candidates at Manchester Y C and Boston Y C. Club races off City Point, Winthrop Y C, Lynn Y C, Cottage Park Y C, and Winthrop. Bay State Y C at Revere racing dories. Quincy Y C and Beverly Y C with club races at Monument Beach.
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Manchester Y. C
Manchester
Boston Y. C
City Point
Winthrop Y. C
Lynn Y. C
Cottage Park Y. C
Winthrop
Bay State Y. C
Revere
Quincey Y. C
Beverly Y
Monument Beach
Harvard Rows Slow Mile Victory Over Freshmen At Gales Ferry
Harvard oarsmen, delayed by a storm, resume practice at Gales Ferry Connecticut. Varsity and freshmen raced 30 stroke starts then a mile downstream, varsity finishing a dozen lengths ahead after a rough water finish. Yale observers watched, Mumford arrives to coach.
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Gales Ferry
Yale
Harvard
Swaim
Burchard
George Mumford
Mr. Higginson
St Mark's School Track Meet Held at Southboro
Southboro reports the annual track meet of St Mark's School on June 12. The event showcases students competing in sprint distance and field events with school records in play and local spectators anticipated.
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Southboro
St. Mark’s School
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