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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1911
Page
12
The crack of the bat signals the 1911 season beginning next Tuesday as major colleges launch their schedules. By fall, diamonds will be abandoned but regular contests will total nearly 20 000, marking a busy start to college and professional play in the West.
The Pacific Coast League leads off with April 12 as top leagues start, followed by Cotton States South Atlantic and others in rapid succession. Eastern Western Southern and Central leagues, colleges like Yale Harvard Princeton and Penn field lengthy schedules with dozens of games, and foreign teams from Japan plan May tours amid varied early results and injuries.
Boston Red Sox spring tour notes strong hitting with ten batters over .300 including Wagner Engle Kiemnon Lewis and Speaker. Mahoney leads two squads with .875 average, Yerkes and Riggert also impress. Perry steadies defense while Janvrin needs control to lift form. Questions linger over third base and first base options.
Paul Koehler the Ohio lightweight headlines an all star boxing program arranged by the A A A for Tuesday night in South Boston. Koehler has long tested top contenders and his visit is highly anticipated as a test for local star Eddie Murphy with other bouts featuring Tommy O Keefe and Johnny Glover Frank Perron against Buck Krouyse or Young Loughrey. Packey McFarland plans several dates including a May New York clash with Tommy Murphy and an Akron Ohio bout with Paul Koehler while aiming to meet Freddie Welch at a later date.
Purtell leads as pole position contender but not guaranteed final selection. Nebinger and Priepke shown as crackerjack players with strong fielding and hitting, while Engle provides power at third. Janvrin shows potential but needs seasoning, Nebinger staking a claim at third while Purtell and Nebinger compete for first base and third base.
Fred Tenney's Heps end training in Augusta Georgia on Wednesday and begin a northward itinerary touring Columbia Greensboro Roanoke Richmond Norfolk Washington Lynchburg and Baltimore before an exhibition at Lynn April 11 and league opener at South End against Brooklyn April 12. The second team may play at Danville and Lynchburg then join Richmond April 4 with cancellations changing Lynchburg dates.
A sharp note laments inflated athlete salaries cluttering the national game and hints at a downturn in Horatio Alger style fiction sales as a result of the trend and broader market concerns.
The National Commission orders the Louisville club to ship a hundred beans amid debate over funding George Moriarty notes. The action reflects finance and ethics concerns surrounding the club and its backers.
The Red Sox Regulars under Donovan and the second squad under Carrigan depart California for a coast to coast exhibition tour. They meet in Chicago on April 10 after stops from March 27 in Yuma to April 9 in Kansas City and Omaha with dates across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska.
Riverside Boat Club presents a 101 entry amateur boxing program at Cyprus Hall Cambridge tonight. Regulars dominate the card with Cambridge talent leading, highlighted by 135-pound standout William Quinn of South Boston and notable 115-pound entrants Amato Guida Eddie Desmond Tom Reagan Guy Polcare and Joe Vargas.
Los Angeles dated March 26 reports Jack Thoney once speed star and famed throwing outfielder and noted unlucky figure in baseball is about to retire from major league baseball.
The Bullet Thoney, once feared in center and now with a ruined throwing arm, is given one final training chance by Manager Donovan. Despite rest and a bid to regain form, he shows no arm strength at Redondo Beach, and a release or trade seems likely before Chicago meetings.
Amateur hockey returns to the Arena as the Sherbrooke team from Quebec faces the Victorias. Sherbrooke lost 4 to 3 to the Boston Hockey Club in their last appearance, while the Victorias aim to avenge a 7 to 5 defeat in Quebec on their upcoming home game.
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