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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1897
Page
3
Salem leads the MA league with one week left and a five-pin win over Commercials while Commercials and Dorchester Central chase in a tight finish. A roll off could decide the title if Salem loses to the Indians at Waltham and Commercials win.
Fragmented OCR lists totals for various districts including Old Dorchester and Charlestown with multiple monetary and score figures. It mentions team totals and string totals over thresholds and references organizations and individuals in a collector’s ledger style. The data appears as misread numerals and labels from a sporting or financial table.
The Insurance League remains close with E L A C atop in games won and total pins. Veazie leads individuals with Symonds and Hutchings close behind as Monday’s E L A C versus J C Paige match looms. teams and averages listed.
The Amateur Bowling League of Boston and vicinity ends its schedule with Boston Athletic winning the championship. Charlestown and Old Dorchester battle for second place, tied if Charlestown loses and Old Dorchester wins. Dodge of Arlington Boat Club tops the high class with 630 and a 211 single, while Warren Hill leads the 180 class. The Mercantile League season finishes with Batchelder & Lincoln and Brown Durrell tied for first. Dennison Mfg. third, Blodgett Ordway & Webber fourth. Brown leads individuals with 168 average, followed by Pierce and Smith.
Secretary Lonergan reports Richardson of Dorchester Central as the leading bowler with an average of 17021-3836. He tallies 96 strikes 175 spares 36 misses and 53 breaks and shows strike 26.6 percent spare 82.9 miss 17.1 and break 14.7. Grover of Old Dorchestersecond with an 168 22-42 average and similar percentages follow.
The New Eng School of Boxing offers instruction for ladies gentlemen and children at 127 Tremont Street Room 12. Officials invite written trial of six lessons to evaluate the program.
An old advertisement urges avoiding a doctor for a cut or bruise and promotes Salvation Oil for 25 cents as a remedy. It markets a simple, inexpensive treatment aimed at quick relief.
On Wednesday March 17 Germania plays Chester Scotia meets Columbus Roxbury Jr. faces Thornton in a slate of games. The schedule lists four matchups across local venues with teams expecting competitive action.
The report notes race times 23.8 83.1 16.9 and 17.3 with Smith of Casino pushing Grover hard for second, finishing close behind.
Mr. B F Girard disputes a race result claiming the prize, while officials say he touched the trigger with his hand and James Urquhart won the medal. The Eagle C C reports growth to 98 members, new mud guard tech, racing board developments, and upcoming meets. Road records and potential state marks discussed as season opens.
William Steinitz the famed chess player is released from the University of Moscow hospital for the insane and returned to health. He was taken in February and is reported all right.
Everett YMCA and Melrose YMCA will play three games with venues in Everett Melrose and a neutral Chelsea Armory. Worcester High School sends four players to national interscholastic games at Madison Square Garden on March 20. Entries include A M Butler L M Mills Captain Paul Potter and D T Sullivan. Chelsea Yacht Club plans a gymnasium at its clubhouse featuring a handball court.
An advertisement notes Beecham's Pills relieve wind and distress after eating. The brief promo highlights stomach discomfort and digestive relief claims with a focus on quick, reliable relief.
Entries list for the first annual Y M C A Massachusetts and Rhode Island indoor athletic championship at the Boston Y M C A gymnasium. The program shows heats and participants across sprints throws jumps rope climbing and related events with Cambridge Pawtucket Charlestown and Boston as key locations and many named competitors.
A letter targets Dr John Hamilton and regular physicians arguing they harm patients by drugging and cutting. The writer promotes nature’s science and herbal stimulants, attacks vivisection, and mocks surgical overreach while claiming reformist medical practice has saved many lives. The piece ends with a call to establish a Garden of Eden for distempered cattle.
In a sharp critique from Boston, Simon M. Landis, M. D., questions medical elites and their methods. He compares licensed physicians unfavorably to impostors, recounts a Western preacher tale, and argues faith and simple healing methods as alternative paths amid costly treatments.
Residents near Clarendon and Endicott avenues in West Somerville protest heavy blasting by Cambridge almshouse workers under Captain Eldridge. They report damage to homes a short distance away and a sick family member left at risk. A petition to abate the nuisance was referred to the Cambridge City Council for tomorrow night’s meeting.
In Nebraska City on March 13 Billy Dacey who claims to be Pacific coast lightweight champion fought colored Nebraska middleweight champion John Betts to a six round draw. Dacey pressed from the start and had the better of the action throughout the bout.
A gossip packed boxing column previews Tracey vs Everhardt at the Arena Athletic Club in New York for twenty rounds with weight and stamina questions. It notes recent fights, possible Gans return plans, and multiple matchmaker moves including Nugent’s Buffalo Olympic Club notes and Belmont Athletic debut with Dolly Lyons and Johnny Lavack.
The Rev I J Lansing’s resignation from Park Street Congregational Society was read as a receipt for salary through April 1 1897 and 3500 paid per a January 1897 agreement. Lansing to join a mutual council as the church prepares for its March meetings.
Professor Fessenden and colleagues unveiled a large Roentgen ray apparatus capable of photographing steel through armor plates and locating blow holes as small as an egg. Tests show hand bones and marrow vividly visible in seconds, lungs in minutes, with Navy Department interest likely.
Tension flares between the Squantum and Wollaston Yacht Clubs of Norfolk Downs as secession from the former formed the latter. John Stuart seeks to build near the Squantum club, with harbor commissioners granting a wharf. A Norfolk Downs Hall meeting ended with adjournment as Stuart appears likely to proceed despite opposition.
The report that Lieutenant F. B. Sawyer of the U S N was in critical condition at his Charlestown home from a Pittsburg gas explosion is false. He sustained only hand burns, painful but not bed confinement, and his family says he will be fine in a few days.
A colorful boastful monologue promotes a boxing event in Carson City. The speaker claims to mortgage his mother’s shack to attend the bout and taunts rivals while referencing boxers Fitz and Gentleman Jim. Betting schemes and fixed pools are insinuated amid bravado.
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