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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1896
Page
3
The Mechanics Hall event features hundreds of aspirants in 40 and 200 yard dashes and multiple field events. Worcester Academy and English High lead strong showings as Cambridge and Portland schools compete with notable colleges in a class rivalry day.
The New England division held a busy session at the Revere House examining an amateur spirit dispute sparked by former A A U president William B Curtis. Delegates debated handicap pay, admitted Worcester City Guards, set race sanctions, and planned the New England championship committee with J E Morse and W H Plimmer among others.
Amherst College held the thirty-second winter meeting of indoor sports and gymnastics in Pratt Gym this afternoon. The event drew participants from Amherst and featured a range of indoor events and performances.
Newton March 18 third day of the Newton Winter Tennis Club indoor tourney at Bray's Hall featured second round matches. Edwin Sheare beat H C Whitfield in a tight contest while J P Paret overcame H C Curtis 6-3 to claim a hard fought victory. Other results included Rising defeating Hunter and Wise losing to Ingraham with close sets throughout.
The English High School class of s9 held its annual banquet and meeting at the Hotel Thorndike with twenty five members present. W C Littlefield presided. W B Fretch Jr served as secretary and F E Blake acted as toastmaster. Officers elected include President W C Littlefield Vice President Alfred Mudge Second Vice President W N Cobb Secretary Treasurer W S Fretch Jr Historian F W Dickerman Poet G H Noone and an executive committee of Littlefield Mudge Cobb and Fretch Jr.
At six o'clock last evening the Boston baseball team departed Park square station for the South. Players include Ryan Bergin Dolan Sullivan Mains Yerrick Tucker Long Bannon Hamilton with Collins and Stivetts joining later in New York Philadelphia and Washington respectively. Jimmy Bannon lost hat but otherwise all are in good shape and optimistic for the pennant race. They train in the South until the league season opens.
The boxing column notes Dixon was knocked out by the Kentucky Rosebud in a clean punch and discusses Alberts versus Mahan amid illness. It lists challenges for Mahan supporters, Reynolds, Hennessy, Bellevue, and Lavack heading to England. Woburn plans larger shows post April and Eddie Pierce versus Gorman potential rematch.
Yale freshman crew will row the University of Wisconsin now on June 18 at Lake Saltonstall rather than June 22. The event becomes a gala Yale occasion with the freshmen ex-ams over, Wisconsin to arrive earlier and train. Yale Navy hosts the guests, marking Yale's first freshmen university race.
New Bedford won 9 goals to 2 in a lacrosse style scoreline after Menard and Roberts starred in the rush. Fall River showed hard luck with two goals from penalties and miscues as the visitors dominated early tempo and pulled away.
The Republican State convention in M'Kinley Milwaukee opened with Acting Chairman W A Jones as delegates wore McKinley buttons. Delegates heard a resolution praising William McKinley of Ohio and urging support for his nomination at St Louis, then proceeded to nominate delegates at large including Sawyer and Hoard.
Ex Governor Campbell of Ohio states clearly that he is not a candidate for the presidential nomination at Chicago and will not have his name placed before the Democratic convention. He emphasizes his intent with vigor and directness, showing resolve in the matter.
The Boston horse show closes entries at 40 State Street with a last minute rush as owners file and inquire. Approximately 400 horses have been entered, promising a premier display and ranking the event among the best ever held in Boston.
Inquest into William S. Goffe's death at Winchester on February 10 finds death caused by a defective transformer. Judge Johnson attributes the defect to negligence by those running the Woburn Electric Light Co and urges public and official attention to this public danger in Woburn Winchester and Stoneham.
About forty candidates train daily under Captain M F Maguire at Boston College gym. The squad, aiming to face Boston University, includes Maguire Bergen Hart McDernod Fogarty White Brewin Carney Does McAllister Crowley Purcell. A Worcester trip next week tests form for Holy Cross and Saint Paul’s events while invitations bloom and Harvard coach James Lathrop warns against overtraining.
Tom Burke, international and American champion quarter miler, was presented with an umbrella by associates at Lawyer Tom Gargan's office in Pemberton square. He and several BA A athletes depart Boston at midnight Friday for New York and Naples, then Athens for the Olympian games.
The Air Line flyer bound for New York struck George Johnson’s team at a Thompson crossing. One horse was killed and the other suffered broken legs. Johnson escaped injury. The wagon sustained only a broken pole.
Polo results list Clinton Clinton with a 6 and Woburn 8 in the Clinton Clinton pairing. In Fall River New Bedford, Fall River records a 9 and a 2 with Fall River placing.
The labor committee toured North End and Chinatown bakeries to assess management and sanitary conditions. They disembarked at 7 PM from the United States Hotel and surveyed Prince Street, Charter Street, various Hebrew, Italian, and Roumanian bakeries, and a Bartlett Street bath before concluding in Chinatown where kitchens were notably cleaner than those in the city’s lower areas.
Walter Tyler of Mamaroneck New York netted an eight pound golden carp using ice tongs from the creek near where salt water meets fresh water in the village. The crowd cheered as the fish fought on an ice floe before Tyler hauled it ashore.
Dr. Frederick E. Hale, under indictment for murder in Rhode Island, admits a decade-old manslaughter trial in Cambridge Washington county New York over a young woman who died after mercury poisoning. He says the charge stemmed from a vindictive coroner and that the mercury was not in the medicine he prepared. The deceased reportedly died twenty eight days after treatment. exhumation showed mercury traces. Hale had denied prior arrest until a Cambridge paper surfaced. He practiced there fifteen years, married a Cambridge woman who later divorced him in Gardner Massachusetts last August.
The torpedo boat Ericsson was not launched as expected when United States Marshal Morris attached the vessel for 85,000 dollars. The government seeks payment for costs, with damages, wages, material, and admiralty suits pending, likely delaying its stay beyond initial plans.
From Managua reports three government victories over Leonist rebels. Netapa fell after two days of fighting with up to 1000 killed or wounded. More capitulated to Zelaya's forces as Honduran troops support advance down the western coast, occupying Viejo City and pushing south from León.
Philadelphia march 18 This week’s bulletin of the L A W racing board will announce the suspension of E C Bald last year’s champion rider pending an investigation concerning his amateur status The charge is made that at one of the meets on the circuit last fall he won a bicycle which he sold for 500 to a local rider before leaving the track.
Timetable excerpt lists first class trains from Boston to Chicago New York and intermediate stops with departure times 8:30 a m 10:30 a m 2 p m 3 p m and 4 p m Various trains offer vestibule sleeping cars drawing rooms and buffet services with connections via Michigan Central L S and M S R R and state lines. Passenger info via ticket agents and the city office.
The late Deer Foot, famed New York Indian runner, set world class marks including a ten mile feat in London in 1862. He lived on the Cattaraugus reservation and was celebrated for defeating English champions and even horses. He trained Jem Mace for a famous fight, lectured Oxford and Cambridge, stayed with the Prince of Wales, and carried substantial money from England back to the United States.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat account describes a blue runner snake that dodged bullets multiple times as a hunter failed to hit it. The hunter enlisted a helper, then shot as the snake turned away, later finding bullets only a button sized space behind where its head had been.
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