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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1918
Page
12
Coach Tom McCabe orders S A T C athletes at Boston College to report at University Heights this afternoon at 2 o clock. Colonel John S Parke in charge outlines the military work expected of students as directed by Washington authorities.
About an hour daily will be allowed for athletics once the college opens on Oct 10. Civilian work resumes a week from today after the Spanish influenza delayed the opening. Thomas McCabe, formerly athletic director at Boston College High, now leads BC athletics and will coach the eleven.
New England athletic circles respond to Johnny Evers call for 500 football uniforms. William Edwards received a cable noting the demand as colleges in the region mobilize gridiron material laid aside since last season.
Edwards already pursues aggressive fundraising to support a major national collection. He asks college managers to contribute generously and notes donations may be sent prepaid to the Custom House in New York City. List of committee members includes Camp, Haughton, Yost, Roper, Stagg and many others.
Arthur Duffey muses on baseball among Allied nations with Alexander and Gowdy as imagined players. Colonel Thompson praises American Olympic prowess and the army’s front line spirit. Talks loom of a 1913 professional season, Boston College coaching, Brennan’s death, and a New England roller polo interest. Nickalls’ rowing lineage noted with young Guy Nickalls’ son excelling.
Box gossip and matchmaker chatter swirl around Philadelphia and Atlantic City toward fall bouts. Levinsky may meet Dempsey Oct 9 while Turner looms in Jersey City, with potential undercards featuring Williams Adair and Bogash.
Minnie Santosinto six years old of 57 Water street Quincy is in Quincy Hospital with a fractured hip and head wounds after an automobile driven by Ed ward Mattson of 374 Water street struck her. Mattson says the child stepped in front of the car from behind a lumber wagon.
A framed verse from Private Lester E. Briggs of E battery 805th Field Artillery in France to his mother Mrs. Edward Briggs of West Mansfield. He describes a warm night in a dugout and pauses to reflect on war letters while promising to keep writing. He sends love to his mother and father and asks for letters in return.
Washington reports that centralized control of raw materials, manufacturing, shipping, finance, and trade by the allied nations against Germany is now a fact. The plan extends from Wilson's war cabinet and allied missions and has approval from the President and entente premiers.
Allied governments have created five inter allied councils for war needs including war, shipping, munitions, food and finance. Aimed at coordinating overseas supplies, avoiding duplication, and managing distribution, with commodity committees handling nitrates tungsten tin metals rubber wool hides leather and other shortages under joint finance and trade oversight.
Major General Henry P. McCain orders a second review and inspection of the 12th Division at Ayer Camp Devens for next Saturday. The unit completed the first training phase and aims to show progress on the main parade field. A biplane with wireless aids liaison instruction at Still River. Investigations continue into the Stringer death case with Private Steinger to be identified. Influenza remains limited with steady recoveries and 30 deaths.
The Federal Food Board reports the 1918 U S sugar beet crop at about 6,359,000 tons, up 378,681 tons from 1917, though Aug 1 conditions were below the 10 year average. The 1917 crop totaled 5,980,379 tons with an 88.6 condition score against a 91 average.
Dr William F Brown a Brookline and Roxbury physician died suddenly of heart failure at his Nahant summer home. He was 61 and long known in Boston. He began practice in Roxbury and in recent years maintained an office at 498 Harvard Street Brookline.
Propaganda urging citizens to buy more war bonds. The message argues quicker bond sales shorten the conflict and support national efforts. It emphasizes individual action and collective financial sacrifice to hasten victory.
Yale in New Haven Conn plans athletic contests for Saturday afternoon as the only free time for S A T C men. Professor Robert N. Corwin, chairman of the Yale Athletic Association Board of Control, announced the plan today.
Professor Corwin urges practical intercollegiate contests be replaced by impromptu events aligned with war training. He highlights discarding non essentials and endorses camp proven athletics as healthy recreation while noting the War Department assigns colleges to develop Army officer material, signaling radical changes ahead.
The text stresses a shift in college life toward urgent wartime tasks with limited time for traditional routines. It notes 50 hour weekly schedules, free Saturday afternoons for impromptu inter-unit contests, and that all athletic facilities are now under the commandant for the duration.
The Lexington high school girls field hockey team held a hard practice on the athletic field yesterday afternoon. It was the final session of the week as they prepare to face Winthrop high school girls again this season.
Berlin reports St Quentin fell to enemy forces yesterday and Rumilly south of Cambrai remains in enemy hands as World War I news from October 2.
William A. F. Estes of Waltham, formerly Lexington, bagged the season's first fox for a New England Fox Hunters' Club member. The fox was killed in Burlington as the club prepares for its annual fall meet at East Pepperell in the last week of the month.
Faculty Coach Frank H. Leighton will issue his first call for football candidates for the Mitchell Military Boys school team. The initial practice is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon on the school athletic field.
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