Crowds Sunday Canes at Chicago Today
Anson's former team may surprise champions who expect three victories as crowds gather to watch the Canes play the Celtics in Chicago.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1899
Page
3
Anson's former team may surprise champions who expect three victories as crowds gather to watch the Canes play the Celtics in Chicago.
The Brooklyn Superbas beat Cincinnati despite weak Reds defense and baserunning, while Brooklyn pitchers shut down Cincinnati's bats. Attendance was 5428. Boston and Chicago showed strong play as the circuit moves through a heavy schedule with four-game series and travel plans ahead.
A long notice lists teams from Mt Washington to Cambridge and Dorchester seeking games in June July and August. Teams include Willow Juniors Jamaica Plain Glendons Everett and Monitors Cambridge St Johns Roxbury and many others with age brackets from 10 to 18 years. Managers provide dates July 4 open slots and guarantees.
Boston faces Chicago while New York travels to Pittsburg. Brooklyn clips Cleveland and Philadelphia visits Cincinnati. Baltimore plays Louisville and Washington meets St. Louis in a full league slate.
In Chicago on June 18 New York led 3 to 2 until the ninth when Chicago surged ahead in a grand stand finish. Mertes singled and Lange bunted, then New York’s infield misplayed allowing a double steal. Everitt followed with a sharp hit to left driving in two runs as Chicago took the lead. Attendance reached 12,000 with Chicago triumphing 4 to 3.
ST. LOUIS June 18 Terrific hitting in the seventh and eighth innings decided the game as Sudhoff held the Senators at bay for six innings and Dineen pitched well initially. Burkett supplied timely hits to push the score, crowd attendance listed as 5000. The score:
Baltimore beats Louisville 7 to 2 as Louisville nurses a 7-2 lead in a game noted for the Colonels persistent hitting woes. Lankswert stars for the locals with solid batting and defense, while Louisville wraps up the victory in Kentucky.
Teams representing the New York and Massachusetts cruisers play at Boston grounds this afternoon with a small admission. The Post vs Globe game in Newspaper League was postponed. Herald and Post will contest tomorrow. Brooklyn beat Johnstown 18 to 1 in an exhibition en route to Cincinnati. Rumors speak of Reds lineup changes and Brush seeking new players. Umpire swap, Washington protest, and various manager moves fill the baseball week.
The All-Collegiate baseball team forms with Boston College captain Trilby Richards leading a seasoned squad. Tom Pagum likely to pitch backed by Johnny Butler or Hub Hart. Infielders include Richards at first, with O Reilly, Sullivan, or McDermott at second, Cassidy at short, Webber at third. Outfield features Fred OConnell, Gibbons, and Dike Clark. J E OConnell of Dorchester manages the team.
Lowell Arms Company team the stronger in the Hub seeks games June 24 July 1 and two on July 4 with the fastest clubs in New Myland paying guarantee. Manager F M Williams 77 Bedford street. Baseball Department thanks readers for favors and notes the Post is a valuable medium for amateurs arranging games between teams of similar strength.
Quincy June 18 Henry M Faxon's new yacht built to defend the Quincy cup was trialed in the bay today. The craft met the owner's expectations especially in windward work and proved itself a very fast boat.
Golf around Boston attracted strong entry lists with four open tournaments last week. Myopia scores lagged Braeburn, showing locals struggle with long links. Atherton shines, Wollaston and All-Newton match at Braeburn looms, with team changes likely as spring schedules near July 4 close.
London June 18 Richard Croker plans to move training quarters from Wantage to Newmarket due to friction with local trainers. Wishard, now in charge, will buy new horses for next season with $100000, acting independently. Croker has spent hundreds of thousands on racing stables and lists several horses and prices from past purchases.
Weather permitting, Old Saugus race course opens with three days of harness racing starting tomorrow. A large entry features fast, well known horses with a 2:22 pace and 2:40 trot on opening card. Wednesday offers a 2:22 trot and a 2:14 pace with solid fields. Thursday schedules two pacing events at 2:28 and 2:17 with large entries.
The article extols Jim Jeffries as the pinnacle of physical development modern humanity has produced, arguing he surpasses ancient Greek athletes and Roman soldiers. It notes his height, grace, balance, and endurance, and compares rivals like Morrisey and Maher, with upcoming bouts at Coney Island and Broadway clubs, plus future match talks with Pedlar Palmer.
Boxing gossip lists bouts by day across multiple cities. Monday features Dunkhurst Yank Kenney Coney Island Moore Lemmons Rochester Burns Ryan Philadelphia Youngstown Bily Ryan McMay Marino Morrisey Cohen Johns.
A week of bouts features professors and heavyweights with a final Lenox A C show tomorrow night. Peter Maher of Dublin faces Mike Morrisey of Tipperary in a twenty round contest billed as the championship of Ireland. Public mood favors a rest from hot months, and opinions split on Morrisey’s promise versus his boast.
Advert says sufferers of dyspepsia wake tired with sour taste and coated tongue. Claims one package of U S Army and Navy Tablets cures weak or sour stomach, constipation, and other issues. Purely vegetable, no griping, 10 cents per pack, mail order from New York address.
Parks crowded with riders and spectators after the 17th festivities. Cyclists took short spins and sat under trees pondering lamp law actions. Clubs held brief runs, with the P. C. C. staging a blind ride. Notables include Austin W. Pease, E. H. Norris, Nat Butler, J. H. Farnham, and many others observed in the park system.
The article notes Burns W. Pierce of Waltham, a noted six day rider, proposing a paced twenty four hour race with Frank Waller to threaten the world 24 hour record of 616 miles. Pierce details past success at a New York 24 hour race and invites immediate arrangements for a social paced contest next week.
Eddie McDuffee seeks to prove form by attacking paced records after a loss to Major Taylor and hints at a twenty-five mile race under L A W or N C A rules. The piece outlines ongoing claims to the middle-distance title among McDuffee Elkes Linton and Michael, with shifts in American leadership and Bevel gear cycling debate noted across clubs and publications.
The Hon. E. J. Slattery installed Division 4 officers in Medford led by President John J. Crockwell and Vice President John Nolan. Slattery projected over 30,000 members in Massachusetts by the next State convention and described a May Boston parade with contingents from New Hampshire Maine and Rhode Island. He hoped Connecticut Regiment leader Colonel Murphy could lead and bear arms. George T. Sheehan praised progress of the order followed by remarks from O'Higgins Curley and others. A Tiverton man spoke for Patrick Finney and Michael Maloney imprisoned years ago after a disputed case in Craughwell Galway.
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