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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1908
Page
3
Yale strengthens championship bid with a 49 to 0 win over Massachusetts Aggies. Princeton, Harvard stumble in early tests while Navy, Carlisle Indians, and Army push for top spots. Balenti kicks four goals as Dartmouth, Carnegie Tech, and Lafayette post wins.
Before the Harvard game at Soldiers Field fans brace for a Carlisle trick played by Glenn Warner’s Indians. The 1903 Dillon hump maneuver used an elastic jersey to hide a ball, letting Dillon surge through Harvard defense for a late second half score.
Frederick B. Alexander and Beals C. Wright, American Davis Cup team members, arrived in Brisbane Australia to compete in Melbourne. They report good health and confidence of winning the cup. The decisive matches are slated for mid November.
A dense schedule lists Tuesday matches including Wesleyan versus New York University and Georgetown versus Fordham. Saturday features Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Cornell, Swarthmore, Annapolis, West Point, Holy Cross, Haverford, Syracuse, Rochester, Pennsylvania State, W W J, Williams, Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Exeter, Yale freshmen, Calby, Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Michigan against multiple opponents in various venues.
New York N ov 1 Jim Driscoll the fasterweight champion of England and Matty Baldwin the top New England featherweight are training for a six round bout at the Fairmont A C in the Bronx Driscoll trains at Tuckahoe N Y Baldwin at Stapleton S I This would be the greatest international battle in years and a Driscoll victory could lead to a world featherweight title shot against Abe Attell in California
Hammer thrower formerly of Harvard named Sherman is said to scheme a new cage in New York for weight throwers. The facility would let big men hurl the hammer shot and 51 pound weight during winter sessions.
The schedule lists multiple Friday matchups including Willesley High at Dedham and Quincy High hosting Prichard while Quincy High pulled off an easy win over Melrose earlier in the week. Other games feature Rindge at Brockton and St. Andrew's visiting Stone School with diverse venues across the region.
Mechanic Arts High defeated English High School 12 to 7 to seize first in the Boston High School league with a disputed second half safety controversy. Dorchester High beat Somerville 5 to 0, while other local matchups included Salem over Boston Latin 5 to 0 and South Boston vs Commercial High 11 points for the Roxbury team.
A single carload of over 1000 cases of old Peter Cooper Rye arrived at Boston freight sheds for Conway & Co. from Dreyfuss Weil & Co. Paducah. The whiskey, popular in Boston and New England, is sold in about six hundred hotels and stores. Future large shipments are expected for the holiday trade.
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