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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1892
Page
3
The Post Baseball Editor in Boston announces the second series of games will be issued. Between ties, first received lists take precedence. Send all lists on the stated coupon and as often as desired. Entries due by June 1 to The Post Boston.
The Post promotes three season tickets for Boston's second series of home games and asks readers to name the rank in the first series. The contest runs until June 1, with enthusiasts invited to participate in ball play gossip and base runners.
The Post offers prizes for the first three correct end of first series standings with season tickets for rest of year at South End grounds. Readers may attend Boston club home games in second series free of charge. June 1 closes submissions. The article discusses base running as vital to success, citing Chicago, St. Louis Browns, Providence Grays, Boston Reds, and players like Ward, Kelly, Welch, and others. It reports Worcester Athletic Club organized with officers and committee, plus Sporting Gossip on travel, players, and club activities.
Wright and E J Whomag are listed as authors. A Trimount man condemns Frank Facey for discussing terms with a boxer. The Trimount Athletic Club met at 343 Broadway South Boston, adopted resolutions backing the current board, and scheduled a meeting for next Sunday. Ed ward L Hopkins acts as secretary. Delegates and several club members are named for athletic prowess, including Adams, Billy, Cassey, Carney, Murphy, Driscoll, Dunn, Dowd, Sullivan, Noonan, and OConnor. A baseball league is proposed with Salem Brockton Lynn Taunton Fall River, with North Easton and Avon possibly replacing Lynn and Salem. Jimmy Waers plans to join the Suffolks and trains with Harry Hodgkins for the Manhattan cross country team. Hugh Hart described as a rhymester.
The Post published a red, white and blue eight page supplement for C. E. Osgood & Co.’s spring exhibition at 744 to 756 Washington Street. The colors and artistic cuts drew wide attention and showcased the paper’s advertising flair.
The Mayor's Cup is on exhibition in Fall River with inscription stating it will be contested for by Fall River football clubs. John W. Coughlin, mayor, presented it on March 19, 1892. Clubs include Fall River Rovers Olympics and East Ends, with East Ends the current American Association champion. Six games scheduled, 25 percent of proceeds to local charities.
The body of Sergeant O. W. Knowles, who recently died in California, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon. The funeral is set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. at 276 Washington Street, according to the notice.
The Boston firm Walker Stetson Sawyer publishes News for buyers a monthly forty eight page journal for the fancy dry goods trade in New England. The venture signals growing respect for printer's ink as a business tool with year end bills likely in the thousands.
A reader notes that a big bowl with ice signals summer yet the beverage suits winter too. The Gourmet favors it in Roman punch after heavy meals and housekeepers use a light infusion to flavor sherbet before the Demitasse at dinner.
Paine's Furniture Company at 48 Canal Street showcases an unusually attractive wood mantel design. The display promises exceptionally low prices and a unique event and variety unmatched in the city and perhaps the country.
Boston billiard men hailed a square contest as Ives defeated Schaefer in Chicago for the world balk line championship. Ives reached 800 points to Schaefer’s 4909, with runs of 95 and averages near 16. Schaefer’s best run was 45, averaging about 10. The outcome surprised spectators who expected Schaefer, yet Ives showed rising strength and future matches may include Slosson.
March 20 Livertoon crowds from this city flocked to the Dunham villa scene and cemetery seeking the tragedy’s resting place of a woman and four children. Police kept crowds from entering the locked house as speculation mounted about more bodies. Official word denies further discoveries.
After seven years Sergeant Greene formerly drill master at the marine barracks in the navy yard arrives from Annapolis with a prisoner for the naval prison. He is now stationed at the Naval Academy and this marks his first visit to Charles Town since being ordered away seven years ago.
Pankhurst the motorman with a broken thigh and injuries from the Beacon street electric car crash Friday evening was reported out of danger last night. Doctors expect a full recovery in five to six weeks.
Reports from London on March 19 show Consols at 9554 for money and 05 13 16d for the account. Canadian Pacific at 90 percent, Erie at 33 percent with Erie seconds at 110, Mexican ordinary at 29 percent, St. Paul common at 70, New York Central at 119, Reading at 28 percent, Mexican Central new fours at 7/ wt.
Advert fragment touts Dr Greene’s Nervura as a pure vegetable spring remedy easing stomach distress, digestion, and nerve weakness. Claims benefit for indigestion, bilious symptoms, sleeplessness, and nervous fatigue. Includes testimonials and contact for CHAS A TITTSWORD in Jersey City and Boston office details.
The Boston Lodge of Elks elected Exalted Ruler James W. Tredwell and other officers: William Blossom, Alexander Daymond, Sidney W. Sprague, Alfred B. Heath, George A. Morse, and Lewis L. Jones for three years. They voted $100 to the New Orleans lodge burned out. Retiring Exalted Ruler James O. Gray praised the lodge’s bright prospects.
Louis Goldstein a 12 year old newsboy of 34 Billerica Street was struck by an inward bound electric car while crossing Tremont Street near Pembrok Street yesterday morning. He suffered severe head back and leg injuries and was taken to City Hospital where his condition was listed as not critical. Witnesses say the boy started to run across as the fast car approached, placing blame on the child.
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