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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1907
Page
10
Last week in Greater Boston regular league bowling, Benes team and individual scores were recorded at candle Boston and bottle pins. The report lists top scorers and scores by bowler across lanes and venues.
The report lists top team and individual bowling totals across several leagues. Carruth leads City league with 1534 team points and 545 single. Brown and Carruth post 3 game high marks. Highland in Boston Pin League sets 1464 team total and 516 single. Fickett leads Highland with 324 and Reid posts 124. Central Massachusetts Amateur League records show 273 team and Fy as single. Dudley Mass Amateur records 612. Jaques from Federal Commercial League posts 257.
Cambridge Catholic League standings show Camb. Gym 35 and Div. 49 teams with wins and losses listed. Individual averages include Leahy 90, Kelleher 85, Ryan 88, McCarthy 84, Flynn 88, Murray 88, Sullivan 84, Langan 85, Horgan 82.
Thomas H. Barker, a Boston bowler, astonishes at the local alleys with a single string of 14 in candlepins, hailed as a marvel of the lanes.
Christopher and Connors topped the first week standings by posting the best score. Saturday night visitors Barker and Poehler from Everett Square in the Greater Boston league rolled a total of 840, with Barker at 433 and Poehler at 407. Barker set a new single-game record of 143, beating Poehler’s previous best string by nine pins.
Beginning tonight at the Casino alleys 10 Summer Street manager Fred Williams announces a one ball candlepin tournament for cash prizes. One ball per box with ten pins per box and five boxes per ticket. Six cash prizes go to bowlers with the highest five ticket totals. Ends April 13 with weekly prizes for top five ticket total.
Sayre Penn March 17 A mile of pennies will be collected by church members to raise funds for a new Presbyterian Church edifice. Each member received a strip with spaces for 16 coins and the plan aims to total about 844 dollars 85 cents.
Gossip notes strong interest in tomorrow night’s bout between Strangler Lewis Jr and John Perelli at the Columbia Theatre. Both rivals have met Lundin here, and the match is billed as one of the year’s finest with evenly matched heavyweights. Jim Barnes prepares for Salem clash while Hjalmar Lundin headlines Manchester card tonight.
The Queen Quality bowling team of the Thomas G Plant Company Jamaica Plain invites any local manufacturer team to a series of games on their alleys or elsewhere. The Queen Quality Juniors seek games with teams in their class. Contact Fred Daley, manager.
The six day roller skating race begins tonight at Park Square Rink at 9 30 featuring two member teams skating two hours nightly. Star entrants include Harley Davidson of St Louis teamed with Clarence Hamilton and James Sweeney Leo Jones among Western skaters, with Fred White Chelsea paired with Charles Williams. The field promises higher competition and exciting racing.
A lively column notes Gus Ruhlin and Kid Broad shilling trips in a front wagon by the Hotel Saranac New York. It riffs on boxing lore Baseball slang and satire about Promoters fighters and the Thaw trial vocabularies.
In Montgomery the Boston Nationals, led by President Dovey with 17 players, depart for tomorrow's work amid high spirits. Dolan remains in Louisville hospital with malarial fever, while Tenney enforces a post supper smoking ban. Cy Young and Gus Dorner stand out as key personalities among a confident, improving squad.
In Little Rock Arkansas on March 17 Captain Stahl plans a split pitching plan with two young hurlers for the Americans while Finn will rely on veteran arms. Wagner likely starts at short and Ungland at first as the lineup remains fluid for the day’s supposed baseball game.
The piece lists player statuses for Griffith's Atlanta team including Tom Corcoran for second base and Jim McGuire entering his 23rd big league season. It notes Cy Barger joining, Elberfeld in good condition, and updates on Hoffman, Moriarty, Chase, Knowles, Conroy, Laporte and others with lineup expectations.
South Boston Day High and Evening High School teams clash at the High School gym tonight as Boston league leaders seek the title. Cups donated by the city will reward winners. the Grammar School final pits Thomas N Hart against Bigelow for prizes from Senator Linehan. A Dorchester A A versus Gate of Heaven Holy Name showdown closes the Peninsula lineup.
English High School will have coach Andrew O Connor from Roxbury this spring. He will direct practice for the Blue and Blue with veterans Parle Brophy McKenna Kendrick returning and many promising new candidates.
Boxers vie in a stacked weekly slate across New York Philadelphia Milwaukee and more with bouts featuring Jimmy Briggs Arthur Cote Billy Glover Billy Connaty Belfield Walcott John Butler Gus Lenny Jimmy Hanlon and others. Enrolment at Winnisimmet Athletic Club tops 500 as Tuesday nights show looms largest in the club’s history.
Sam Hyde of the Watuppa Stock Farm Fall River breeds pacers from Whisper 2:08 1/4 by Alcander dam by Halabird Ethan Allen. Whisper’s foals include Murmur by Star Pointer in foal to Ru benstein 2:05. Whisper also produced Delia Wilkes by Joe Patchen and a filly by Direct. Grattan Boy Jr. 2:08 dam Straight Line 2:12 by Je rome Turner 2:15 1/2, in good form at Readville. other horses and sires listed with speeds, ownership and sales. The Native by Mako sold for 12,000 to T W Murphy. Amos R. snow race match with B S Dillon ends with Amos R. winning.
Promoter Tex Rickard says Gans and Nelson are matched for a July 4 bout in Ely Nevada with a 30 000 purse all to Nelson and no bonus for Gans. Rickard claims Nolan and Selig arranged terms and that Gans will fight only for the big end if he defeats Nelson fairly.
The interuniversity cable chess contest between American universities and Cambridge and Oxford will be held next Saturday. Teams from Harvard Columbia Yale Princeton and others will field players from last fall’s lineup for the Isaac L. Rice international trophy now in England. W. A. Napier serves as referee.
Rockport Baseball Club trails tied for first with Sears and invites candidates for third base shortstop and outfield. Contact L. J. Knowlton Box 499 Rockport Mass to express interest and learn tryout details.
Harvard track management released the spring slate with May 4 the Dartmouth dual at Cambridge May 11 the interscholastic meet at Cambridge May 18 the Yale dual at New Haven May 25 Harvard Yale freshmen dual at Cambridge May 31 and June 1 the intercollegiate games at Cambridge The handicap and class games dates remain undecided but likely before the Dartmouth meet.
Garden City Golf Club has not yet engaged a replacement for Stewart Gardner who heads to Exmoor Country Club after Troon. L. D. Pierce of Woodland Mass tops J. E. Pierce of Allegheny in Pinehurst on March 15 with a one stroke win in division consolation. W A Knight of Zanesville Ohio wins St Augustine Golf Club president's cup in match play beating Mrs Darrow. Lee Jones of Chicago captures cup for 1906 leaving next year’s championship open.
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