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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1893
Page
3
Mystic Park held the October meeting final of the season with strong turnout despite cool weather. Prince Alcyone faltered in the 2:25 pace while Louie M and Ferndale clashed closely for early lead with Ferndale taking the decisive win in later heats.
Nine starters faced a field where the talent favored a Phantom to win with Emma F. as second choice. A tumble hit the knowing ones in heat one while none of the named horses raced there. Rosewood led to the half before King Star surged, then Rosewood pulled clear to win by a narrow margin.
The program was postponed to 12 30 this afternoon. The regular card features the 2 23 trot and the 2 18 pace with large fields anticipated in both races.
The article reports on a weight dispute between Joe Walcott and Dick O'Brien over 138 to 140 pounds with Walcott insisting on 140 or more and signaling a possible O'Brien rematch or a match with Shadow Maher at 145 pounds. It also notes training moves, proposed bouts, and comments from figures like Captain Cooke and Johnny Griffin.
Racing program lists six races at West Chester with horses and weights for each event. First race five furlongs several entries include Tormentor Sirocco Wah Jim Aloha Demfargilla Roy Lochiel Bel Demonio Comanche. Second race one mile sixteen, Ramado Pickpocket Victorious Selina D Fidello percent. Third race five furlongs Amellan Admitage Drum Major Tena cious Factotum Economist Bur sils Maggie Smith Baroness Florence Nahma. Fourth race one and a half miles Sir Walter Dr Rice Glenmoyne Helen Nichols Roche Hugh Penny Herald Governor Fife Saragassa. Fifth race three quarters of a mile Queen Isabella Bonvolio P Half Mine She Fillly Big Mid Fire Star. Sixth race seven furlongs Madrid Be artaint Beansey Will Elliott Kirkover Lord Motley Melanie Little Charile Integrity Cllocolt.
Yale freshmen were forced to safety against Hillhouse High in the annual game. This marked the first time Hillhouse scored on the Yale freshmen. Yale fumbled repeatedly. Osgood, famed Cornell halfback last season, has joined the University of Pennsylvania. At an Intercollegiate Athletic Association meeting Princeton and Penn urged repeal of the undergraduate rule, but Yale and Wesleyan supported it, defeating the motion. The Penn team is weakened by the issue. Yale has not been scored against since the Harvard Yale matchup.
The Boston bicycle clubs move from the old interclub association to the Associated Cycling Clubs for indoor and winter events. The A C C will hold its quarterly meeting at Young's Hotel on Oct 20 to discuss immediate actions and admit the Vesper Boat Club contingent and the Eagle. The Somerville club trains under Cc P Cubberly with eighteen candidates led by Collins and Reid, while other clubs like Medford Cambridgeport and Roxbury plan near term challenges and trainer hires.
Walter Camp reports Yale and Harvard will play an annual football game at Hampden Park Springfield from 1891 to 1894. Captains Waters and Hinkey support the agreement and will meet by Oct 15 to settle details. Camp sees little chance the contest will fall through despite undergraduate rule rumors.
Sporting miscellany notes a B A A football eleven versus Harvard's second eleven at Franklin Park tomorrow. It also mentions an Australian cricket tour match in Boston, a Rosedale theater debut for the Australians, a Dorchester Club dancing party on Thanksgiving, Boston College gym changes, Shaw mut Rowing Club ball on Nov 27, Riverside Boot Club fair planning, Clyde Park track polo and pony races with silver cups as prizes.
Harvard meets the Institute of Technology on Jarvis field this afternoon at four. Reserved sections B and L, 50 cents general admission. Ushers listed. Acton and Baldwin star for Harvard with George Stewart back to coach. Second eleven to play the Boston Athletic Association on Brookline Common.
Manager Gray reshuffles events at Franklin Park Saugus to spread colt races over the first two days of next week. The schedule lists Boston stakes 1000 for two-year-old trotters and other events from Monday through Friday including Debutante stakes Priscilla stakes and multiple pace and trot distances.
Harvard notes detail class football teams and athletic interest as 101 entering law students train under trainer Lathrop with 168 total entering class. Notable athletes across colleges are named, including Garfield and Wade. The Harvard Cycling Association held its first run with ten participants. The note ends with an advertisement for The American Wringer Co. products.
The Philadelphia Driving Park Association opened its fall meeting at Point Breeze track. An ideal afternoon saw fast conditions with Lulu Stanton winning the first 2:24 trot, Bell Weather second, Sleepy Ned third and best time 2:19 1-4. In the pacing second race Brown Frank won two heats with Jennings Kitty B and Budd Doble each taking one. best time 2:15 1-4.
In Hanover, N H the Dartmouth annual tennis tournament continued with preliminaries. Allen defeated Hadlock Cum mings beat F Rollins Brown defeated Hamilton in three sets B Smalley beat Allen Newell defeated Crosby Watson beat Taylor Thurston defeated Cum mings in straight sets.
Boston readers are told Paine's Furniture Company will periodically present staple items at prices not seen before in Boston. Today the first offer appears with an illustrated sideboard priced at twenty dollars, a notable discount from its usual value.
Notice to voters from the Boston Board of Registrars details printed voter lists in precincts and at the Central office 2 Beacon Street. Evening registration sessions run Oct 11 to Oct 24 from 6 to 10 PM at multiple ward locations. Tax payment not required to vote but tax bills aid identification. Registration closes Oct 24 at 10 PM.
Notices announce third creditor meetings for insolvent and solvent debtors in Suffolk and surrounding counties. Dates span 1894 to 1898 with meetings at the Court of Insolvency, Boston or Cambridge, where creditors must prove claims and attend to assignee accounts, led by listed assignees such as Josiah Dean Walter Morris Louis Girardin Adolph Reiner and James Mouton Hall.
Boston court actions include an order for William Boston to notify defendant A D Goetz by newspaper posting after service failed. Also insolvency proceedings against John D Clapp see petitions to vacate and notices.
The document records probate notices in Boston Suffolk for Stephen Podesta and Giuseppe De Stefano estates. Executors Caveina Galvin and Trancerco De Stefano announce authority as executors or administrators and call creditors to present claims, with dates October 10 1808 and September 21 1809.
Mortgagee George B. Howe as assignee announces two separate foreclosures. One covers a Boston lot bounded by Wall Street Cotting Street and Zane with a 5000 square foot area. sale set for November 2, 1893 at noon with $1000 cash bidders. The other sale concerns Wellington Street property on October 26, 1898 at 4 PM, with references to Sabina Jenkins and Franklin Savings Bank and associated conveyances and reservations.
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