How the Leading Eastern Colleges Fared on the Grid
A concise survey of early gridiron results among top eastern colleges including Harvard and peers. It notes performance trends, key games, and emerging strengths across the season.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1916
Page
6
A concise survey of early gridiron results among top eastern colleges including Harvard and peers. It notes performance trends, key games, and emerging strengths across the season.
The article argues foursome play as a superior golf test and suggests a Metropolitan district tournament modeled on London foursomes. It cites Harold Hilton and other pros, notes high interest when two-player teams combine, and envisions a three-day club event with 16 qualifiers across notable courses.
Directors of the New England Milk Producers Association meeting at Quincy House urged farmers to end the milk war and accept five month price offers from Elim Farm Company Brigham company Whiting and Sons Ida Graustein and Alden Brothers. The deal raises prices by at least four cents per eight and a half quart can and aims to equalize quotations across the territory with some areas gaining more than a penny per quart. Shipments will resume immediately in areas that halted during the dispute.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis will receive a bas relief portrait at his Washington birthday observance. Sculptor Bashka Paeff, from Beacon Hill, completed the piece and travels from Boston to present it.
Washington November 12 The submarine issue with Germany causes deep U.S. concern. Incomplete but official word on the Columbian sinking reaches Secretary Lansing and, with the Marina Arabia and Lanao cases, shows Germany’s submarine warfare nearing a point where President Wilson will likely order a halt.
President and Secretary Lansing review the Sussex pledge breach by Germany and assess evidence on attacks. Officials weigh whether German actions violated international law, with possible demands for costs and a new stance against submarine warfare.
Rabbi Stephen S Wise of New York spoke at Union Park Forum accusing rich Jews of selfishness for opposing the Jewish congress. He urged unity and argued Jews must live with their people to share in their fate and rights, criticizing Russia and Romania’s treatment of Jews and predicting postwar justice.
Fourteen people were injured when a Washington avenue inbound car struck a Revere Beach inbound car on the Charlestown Chelsea drawbridge near the Allan steamship line wharf about 11:30 last night. The collision occurred 100 feet south of the north draw.
Excitement aboard two trolleys ended in a crash when the Revere Beach car stalled amid conflicting reports of a fuse blowout or a trolley detachment. Motorman Zelinsky of the Washington avenue car suffered a burn. Rideout of the Revere Beach car injured a knee. Several passengers were cut by glass. many declined hospital care.
Mrs Elkanah C Miller wife of a local manufacturer died in a Derry New Hampshire hospital from injuries after the car carrying football fans toppled into a ditch between Derry and Salem The party included her husband Howard Daley the Williams couple of 44 Williams Street and the Frank Chandler family all returning from the Manchester High Haverhill High game. Mrs Miller was the only occupant thrown from the vehicle and suffered internal injuries.
Patrick F. Tobin of Belmont suffered three broken ribs and was treated at Cambridge Hospital after a head-on collision between two cars at the Walden and Sherman streets junction. Injured were Patrick H. Hurley of Belmont and John W. Henderson of Cambridge.
Boston and surrounding towns reported the season's first snowfall yesterday afternoon around 3. A brief shower of tiny flakes melted on contact, followed by sleet and rain. Late last night a light rain fell and the Weather Bureau forecast two more days of rain with little temperature change and moderate easterly winds.
The American tug Vigilant sailed from St John s bound for Cardiff and endured a five day gale. The Holland America liner Ryndam rescued 12 crewmen while three men stayed aboard for 60 hours at wheelhouse and engine room, guiding the ship to near the Irish coast before rescue.
More than 1100 Melrose residents attended a Union Evangelistic Society meeting in Memorial Hall. Brewer Eddy of Newton spoke on Life in the Trenches, followed by songs from a chorus of 200 plus the Wesley Quartet, with Rev. Dr. Thomas Simms presiding.
Front reports a week of continuous thrusts and counter thrusts along the Russian front from B ara n ov ich to Halicz with hand to hand fighting. Germans gain east of Baranovitch contested as Russians reclaim trenches while Hindenburg pounds between Brezezany and Halicz as Brussiloff holds. Russians claim to prevent Austro German diversion to Romania and press to blunt further advance.
Sixteen bishops led by Rt. Rev. David H. Greer appeal for relief of 100,000 Assyrian Christians, mainly women and children, left to die by Kurds and Turks in Kurdestan as reported from New York on November 12.
The Sanitary and Street Cleaning Teamsters Union No. 149 held a meeting yesterday accusing the sanitary division of discrimination against men not in good standing and alleging city employees are forced to work nine or ten hours to complete duties at the Roxbury yard.
Report describes men denied noon dinners and forced to take long routes to dumps. Workers told they may quit if they object. A committee was formed to probe alleged violations and take action.
A special committee of Local 384 Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union will present a new wage scale to the Hotel Men's Association today or tomorrow. The schedule, endorsed by the local joint executive board and international officers, was adopted after a six hour meeting attended by more than 15 cooks and waiters at leading city hotels held yesterday at 724 Washington Street.
Teamsters Union Local 25 approved a $100 contribution to Henry Abrahams campaign fund for the school committee and named a committee to aid the effort acting as individuals to secure votes. The Ben Franklin Assembly Knights of Labor passed a resolution backing Mayor Oarley’s request for a presidential probe into rising living costs. Office Employees Union Local 14 965 AIL meets moved from 919 Washington to 167 Tremont where Frank M. Bump will speak.
Patriotic women of South Boston will meet tomorrow evening at Katherine G. McGuire's home at 98 G street to review committee reports on plans for a testimonial honoring 175 South Boston boys who recently returned from the Mexican border. Miss Mary King will preside.
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