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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1920
Page
16
Georgetown and Boston College renew a heated football clash after a turbulent season, with early form suggesting a comeback is needed. Fred Falter and Billy Ritola highlight cross country and distance running chatter as other stars loom.
Claimed scores for the Harvard Yale game favored A who asserted Harvard 10 Yale 3 while B claimed Harvard 27 Yale 0. The record shows A wins.
Navy weatherproof suits described as wind and waterproof rubberized cloth, light and pliable for boating camping fishing and more. Priced at 6.00 per suit, sold by W. E. Hadlock & Co at 152 State Street Boston with window displays and endorsements from service members.
World champion Joe Stecker faces John Olin in Mechanics Building on Thanksgiving night in a three match card. Olin vows to prove Springfield victory over Stecker was no fluke and aims to stop Stecker’s scissors hold while introducing his own counters. All principals expect to arrive today or tomorrow for rapid bouts.
Mrs. Anna M. Chase filed for divorce from Hal Chase former baseball star of the Cincinnati and New York Nationals now under indictment in Chicago over the 1919 World Series fix. She says they married May 27 1913 and accuses him of infidelity gambling and dissipation. She claims he has given her only one dollar since last March.
Dr William T McCarthy athletic director in Arlington schools arranged the first annual cross country run for Arlington Junior High boys. The 9 30 start at Spy Pond Athletic Field will use the old high school course with a start and finish on the field.
Boston College prepares for a closing schedule with two key games this weekend and next. The Maroon and Gold meet Georgetown on the road in Washington and then face Holy Cross in a friendly clash at home.
Boston College remains unbeaten after decisive wins over Fordham Yale and Tufts with a 13 to 3 loss to Marietta and a 34 to 0 win over Boston University. Key players include Heaphy Urban Roderick Liston and Fitzpatrick while Fitzpatrick may return for Georgetown with Swan handling kicking duties.
Yale News reviews the season and expresses unreserved confidence in Tad Jones. It states Yale hopes he stays to win back the universitys football supremacy of earlier days.
Cincinnati reports a proposed big trade with the Chicago Nationals. Groh Neale Kopf and Ruether would move to Chicago in exchange for Alexander Hollochér and other Cubs, though club officials say no definite decision has been made.
A satirical look from 1920 questions whether brains pay, contrasting professors, poets, and artists with showgirls and boxers. It argues brains can yield income in some fields but often lose to physical labor and entertainment, noting higher pay for performers and actors while educators face poverty.
Yale renews intercollegiate boxing with a planned winter season. Edward P. Eagan restarts as captain in heavyweight, with Wood and Brewer as other weight class contenders. Mosey King to coach. candidates to report November 29 for a squad expected to exceed one hundred.
Richard R. Higgins of Winchester will take over as Harvard football manager for 1921 succeeding Lesson. Higgins directed the Crimson quarter master corps last year on the Pasadena trip and will supervise two assistants chosen after the Yale game. Edwin Sibley Webster of Boston and Henry P. A. Harris of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., are named as assistants of the second team.
The St Joseph T A Society stages open amateur boxing at Commercial Hall West End with feature bout Steve Gustin of South Boston vs Young Student of North End. Gustin, 115 pounds, a former Olympic team member, is expected to showcase his speed and skill alongside Student who won the 115 class title last year. Open classes cover 115 125 and 135 pounds with tickets 60 cents, reservations at room 12 2% School Street.
The Fenway A A boxing tourney resumes Thursday at Scenic Temple with Mickey Donovan of Brockton vs Frank Tillo of North End in a 10 round feature. Talks swirl about Summers and Siegel for a title shot while Eddie Shevlin dominates debate. Bob Roper & Bob Martin loom as a top heavyweight clash at Mechanics Building with heavy local security and high fan interest.
Eliot D. Pratt of New York City class of 1922 has been elected captain of the Middlesex School football eleven for next year. He succeeds Benjamin R. Bassett who will graduate next June. Pratt starred at left guard last season. Thirteen other players and the manager received letters: Knowlton Hiller Mahin Pollard Hopkins Slayton Austin Otis Krumbhaar Mumford Richards Livingood Smedberg and Manager Scott Blanchard. James Halstead named assistant manager and next year’s manager.
The Holy Cross College fund seeking 1 million dollars lags behind, with eastern Massachusetts notably Boston failing to meet its 138000 quota. Campaign workers at the Boston City Club planned a push of 1,000 canvassers in teams to canvass Boston through Thanksgiving night when the drive ends.
Quincy City Council moved the finance committee report to a third reading with no dissent to authorize 250 000 for a memorial hall honoring World War I veterans. Mayor Joseph Al Whiton backs the plan and funds would be spent under the board of trustees led by chairman Colonel Fred E Jones at the December 2 meeting.
Halifax Nova Scotia November 22 Captain Joseph Conrad retired skipper living at Central Clarence announces plan to build a schooner to compete in the 1921 North Atlantic fishing vessel races. The vessel will likely be built at Shelburne Nova Scotia.
John Layton of St. Louis defeated Jess Lean of Denver 50 to 43 in the preliminaries of the national three cushion billiard championship. Clarence Jackson of Kansas City beat Charles Morin of Chicago 50 to 49 in the same session.
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