All-School Baseball Team Selected From Greater Boston Players
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1915
Page
9
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The article lists players by name and school for the upper and lower rows of the All Scholastic Baseball Team including Tom King Newton High and Dan Kelley Rindge Tech. It then discusses players’ temperaments and responses to bad luck citing golf examples and stressing steady nerves as key to success.
Harvard varsity and freshman crews spent a day in Long Island Sound aboard the schooner Vagrant and Larz Anderson’s Roxanna, with dives and excitement noted. Coach Wray and Dr Young return to support the crews as Joe Higgins of Holy Cross looms in the half mile. Ted Meredith and Maxwell Long’s records are referenced with Meanix as a top quarter miler candidate. Marc Wright trains at Franklin Field chasing pole vault depth.
Edouard Fabre of Montreal and Clifton G. Horne of Dorchester gear up for the 12 mile invitation at Division 72 AOH field day on July 5 at South End grounds. Both aim to outdo each other after the BA A Marathon result while rivals Merchant Roth Henigan Fuller vie for wins on a modified course. The Panama Pacific Exposition Marathon is set for San Francisco in September with organizer talks concluded.
Sheldon Lejeune has missed a week for Sioux City after blood poisoning from a spider bite or similar insect. The species is not disclosed and no other details are given.
Pitcher Cy Boothby sold by Columbus of the A. A. to Sioux City impressed in his first game for the Sioux. He worked well on the mound and contributed to a strong start for his new team.
Thomas King 1b Newton High William Mulcahy 2b Woburn High Dan Kelley ss Rindge Tech Grant Holt 3b Melrose High Lawrence Bennett 1f Everett High Harold Connor cf Mechanic Arts Chester Arthur rf Brookline High James Spillane c Boston Coll High Oliver Cedarstrand p Rindge Tech Wm Fitzgerald p Somerville High Geo White Capt util Rindge Tech
Hobart Early at first base James Sullivan at second Horace Ford shortstop Co Davidson at third Herbert Millen at first Joe Brickley center field Mike Delahanty at first Jerry Murphy catcher Albert Dutton pitched Robert Cormick at pitcher James Conlon listed with multiple schools Medford High Irchester High merville High Ikimann School Waltham High Everett High English High Malden High Newton High Wobarn High
The 1915 schoolboy baseball season closes with a Post mythical all scholastic team. The season proves very successful with generally high class play though star players are fewer, making selections tougher than in recent years.
The selection highlights two standout high school twirlers Fitzgerald of Somerville and Cedarstrand of Rindge Tech, with Dutton Everett Cormick Newton High and Lovely Dedham High among other noted pitchers. Catchers Spillane Boston College High Murphy Boston College High White Rindge. first base candidates Early Medford High King Newton High. second basemen Mulcahy Woburn High Sullivan Dorchester High. Kelley at shortstop.
Kelley moves from third to short to shore up the infield as Melrose High’s Grant Holt stands out as the best third sacker of the year. Everett High’s Larry Bennett earns a standout outfield spot, while Mechanic Arts’ Harold Connor and Brookline’s Arthur receive recognition for hitting and fielding. Second team stars include Claude Davidson, Delehanty, Millen, Brickley, Cormick, Dutton, and Conlon, each notable for strong defense or power hitting.
Harvard's 1915 squad departs Cambridge at 10 for New Haven to clash with Yale in the opening game of a three game series on Yale Field. Mahan likely to start pitching, with Whitney saved for Cambridge return and Garritt possible at New Haven.
In GALES FERRY Connecticut on June 20 Harvard oarsmen, with Yale boatmen, examined final times from yesterday to forecast next Friday’s three regatta races. They give Harvard a slight edge in the varsity eight, Harvard advantage in the freshman eight, and Yale a small edge in the second eight.
Open athletic meet at Clinton Driving Park on Monday July 5 under the Massachusetts Eagles with events including 100 yards one mile 880 yard run 220 yard hurdles and six mile Marathon Blanks available from M J Healey 642 Main Street Clinton Red Sox selections noted for morning and afternoon games while an argument over John L Sullivan fades from the scene
Fred I Pereault of Malden famed old time century rider marked his 50th birthday by riding from Malden to Worcester totaling 101 miles in eight hours with a near 100 mile extension saved by an accident in Woonsocket. His century runs reach 496.
A large crowd is expected at the South End grounds tomorrow at 11 o clock as the Boston Police nine meets Chelsea police officers in a Massachusetts State Police league game. The Boston team leads the league after five straight wins.
Baltimore officials consider the Go Once Club campaign at the Fed park as a social prompt. Members wear buttons reading I have been once have you sparking debate on admission motives.
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