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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1909
Page
9
Harvard oarsmen in Red Top and Gales Ferry train hard for the Harvard Yale regatta on the Thames next Thursday. The Crimson expect a clean sweep with the freshman eight and four oared varsity races favoring Harvard, while Yale’s eight shows improving form and challenges the favored Crimson.
Daniel Ahearn of the Irish American A C set a new American record for the running hop skip and jump with 49 feet 61/4 inches at Celtic Park during Kerry football games in New York. The previous record was 49 feet 1/2 inch by J B Connolly of Boston on Sept 19, 1906. The world record stands at 52 feet 2 inches by Daniel Shanahan in Limerick on Aug 8, 1888.
Louisville defeated Kansas City 4 to 2 while Indianapolis beat Milwaukee 7 to 1 and St Paul won over Columbus 2 to 1 in a series of games. Toledo edged Minneapolis 1 to 0 after 12 innings.
In a doubleheader results show Waterbury 2 New Haven 1 opening, then Providence defeats Jersey City 4 2 in 11 innings after a 10 4 first game. The late showdown features Providence rallying for an 11 inning 3 2 win over Jersey City.
Fort Revere routed L. P. Hollander Company 14 to 4 at Fort Revere yesterday to extend its season winning streak. Pitcher Hogan went seven innings allowing only one hit while Goodwin Manville and Hudson produced strong hits and solid defense for the victors.
After the series starting tomorrow the Athletics will not appear at Huntington avenue grounds in Boston again this year. Their schedule in Boston will be finished. Last year they played two late season series here.
The Harvard sailing team, based in Red Top Conn, spent Sunday aboard the houseboat Rosalie chartered by Robert Bacon. They dined on board, returned at 6:30, and after a short dive off the boat, the squad prepared for three days of light work to stay tuned up.
A bomb exploded at 11 tonight in the alley between the Ottawa building and the Chicago Title and Trust building in Chicago. The blast injured two people seriously, possibly fatally, damaged five floors of the Title and Trust structure, wrecked nearby saloon Stoll & Bowens, and disrupted telephone service downtown. Victims include Miss Elizabeth Dow and John Ladue.
The week shines for intercollegiate rowing as Harvard faces Yale on the Thames at New London and five crews Columbia Cornell Pennsylvania Syracuse and Wisconsin compete on the Hudson at Poughkeepsie. The Harvard Yale varsity race is slated for Thursday at 6 if weather holds, with the Hudson affair following Friday at the same hour.
The column notes a strong athletic launch at Cambridgeport games and a thriving fall season in Boston with many clubs sanctioning events. It highlights long distance interest, star milers H Wilson and E Lunghi, a controversial 10-mile Marathon at American League Park, and praise for Hedlund and Sheehan in the half mile. It mentions Eddie Bloss eyeing Harvard Yale boat race and Cartmell’s form in England, plus twists on Walker and Daniels and Shrubb’s cross-Channel feats.
A reader asks if a baserunner who returns to first after a force at second is allowed to remain at first. The answer notes force ends when the runner is retired at first. Additional queries cover batting averages calculation: A would have .533 and B 1.000, based on hits divided by at bats.
Joe Thomas a former prospect aims to rebound by facing Tommy Sullivan of Lawrence at the Armory A. A. next Tuesday night. The Californian, once a Chelsea era standout, has weakened since Colma and the Lincoln Club days but vows improvement. Three six round prelims follow: Tommy Foley versus Young McDonough, Eddie Shevlin versus Young Dinsdale, and Max Baker versus Bobby Tickle.
William Kent Shepard an instructor at Sheffield Scientific School Yale is dying after a car crash near Westerly Rhode Island He was with Robert G Curtis and F W Smith Jr of Bridgeport and the chauffeur all ejected when their car collided with a machine marked D9756 Ads R I Shepard transported to Grace Hospital New Haven with a skull base fracture and a golf team member from Connecticut who had played in Quincy Massachusetts was returning home for the accident.
New Haven Conn June 27 Yale alumni gather for commencement with prominent Tafts in attendance Charles B Taft of Cincinnati attends class of 1874 reunion President Taft cannot attend the alumni march to the Yale Harvard game but will join Woolsey Hall Wednesday morning where William Howard Taft will receive a diploma Rob ert Fairbanks son of Tafts rival to receive his diploma as will Benjamin Harrison McKee the Baby McKee from the Benjamin Harrison era.
Heat gripped New England last week with five fatal cases and 41 deaths from prostration. Victims including John Leonard and Charles Lafferty suffered collapses on Boston streets and were treated at local relief stations and hospitals. Nationally, Niles City Montana reported 96 degrees, while Marquette Michigan stayed cooler at 60.
Alfonso Caruso was arrested at 11 o'clock last night on Salem street after he stabbed Bruno Luiquetta twice with a dirk knife. The victim was moved to Relief Hospital in favorable condition.
Captain L F Strout of the Governor Dingley, 50, recounts starting at 16, rising to master, and a near fatal exit from the ill fated Portland voyage of Nov 26, 1898. He recalls the death of Captain Deering and attending his uncle's funeral before leaving to grieve and learn the ship was lost.
Sixteen Dorchester youths fell 18 feet from a gangway into mud at the Quincy harbor channel. Officer Henry Thorne and scores of women aided in rescuing the men who were bound for Peddock's Island. Names listed include Nantel Sullivan and Harry Gill among others.
Salim Mustafa, 28, drowned in the Merrimack River above Amoskeag Falls afteroon. rescue efforts failed and authorities investigated the incident.
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