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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1917
Page
8
Football gains momentum this week as Giants and White Sox engage in a championship-settlement twist of baseball. Next Saturday vital athletic news shifts to gridirons as teams begin the middle of their schedules.
Early season shocks spread across college gridiron as Harvard navigates a lean year. Williams defeats Cornell 14 10 while Colby falls to Exeter. Harvard’s informals show strength with quarterback depth and a fast backfield, drawing modest crowds but hinting at improving play.
Cyclone Ress aims to clash with Greek fighter John Kilonis for a renewed chance at victory. He risks losing a carnival contract by cancelling to pursue the bout. Ress arrives, in top shape, and expects a strong showing while McCarthy and Campbell prepare for their finishing bout.
The Newton constabulary marksmen won the eight man team championship at the fall tournament of the Massachusetts Association of National Rifle Association Clubs held at Wakefield yesterday. The team scored 1749. J. C. Spraker was individual champion with 258, while F Anselmo and F Davis tied for second with 250 each.
Eddie Shevlin and George Alger meet again in a highly anticipated bout drawing strong local crowds. The rivalry between the two has grown intense with each encounter, fueling steady public interest and large followings for both fighters.
Maurice M. Tyler, captain last year, returned to college as Tufts looks to improve in meets against Harvard Holy Cross and Amherst.
Police navy and army officials launched an inquiry into a midnight attack on the Portsmouth police station by 500 sailors soldiers and marines who assembled after an unknown sailor sounded Assembly double quick following the arrest of a disruptive seaman at a downtown theatre.
A sailor sounded an emergency bugle which drew sailors soldiers and marines to Congress Street in the business district. The crowd marched on the police station, a window was shattered, and police with clubs faced a growing threat before naval guards dispersed the mob. Mayor Ladd and a naval officer urged restraint as provost guards moved in.
A large-scale hunt is underway for Emma M Harlow who vanished from 305 Cambridge St West End on Sept 4. A ghostly postal card from Worcester to her mother adds concern about her health and safety. She is 32, 5 ft 8 1 2 in, 170 lb, with blue eyes and gray streaked black hair, last seen in black attire.
In Calu on October 14 Baut McVey defeated heavyweight Jim Johnson after 2% rounds. McVey won the decision in a match that drew local attention for its early stoppage and final call by the judges.
In Dublin on October 14 the Countess Markievicz stood out in Sinn Fein efforts, leading a funeral procession for Thomas Ashe the imprisoned hunger striker. Delegations from nearby counties joined as she marched with a group of girls dressed as an Irish chieftainess in green and armed with a revolver.
A Chicago gathering of 500 Polish residents marks the Kosciuszko centenary with patriotic demonstrations. President Wilson and Paderewski praise Kosciuszko and his influence on liberty worldwide. Paderewski announces new Polish army volunteers bound for a Canada training camp.
A mass meeting in Madison Square Garden protested Postmaster General Burleson’s order to publishers of the New York Call the New Yorker Volks Zeitung and the Forward to show cause why their papers should not lose second class mail status. Morris Hillquit spoke as Socialist mayoral candidate while thousands packed the venue and police blocked doors. Thomas D. McCarthy and DOJ agents attended.
German troops landed on the Russian island of Oesel on Friday and quickly broke the Russian garrison, the German General Staff announced. British Admiralty reported the advance toward the island's southeastern coast as German forces consolidate control.
At Codman Square Second Congregational Church Rev. C. Bushnell condemned Germany and urged fairness in human relations. He argued national greatness is unjust when it overrides brotherly love and warned others follow similar paths in history.
Baltimore October 14 The Chaplains Aid Society reports about 200000 Catholics are in U S armed forces across branches. Cardinal Gibbons inspired Baltimore women to organize parish units in the archdiocese with funds and entertainments run by a central soldiers' body. The plan may spread to other dioceses nationwide.
R D Cooper, president of the New York State Dairymen's League, said directors used five thousand dollars at a Utica meeting last July to pay expenses for a Washington adviser to Herbert Hoover. A committee chose Haskell for the advisory role and Hoover named him to the National Dairy Industry War Council. Cooper claims all actions were to aid cooperation with the food administration.
Attorney General Brundage of Illinois claimed the money was to place a friend of the league in the national food administration and denied any improper use. Cooper said the directors voted a 5000 dollar fund a month after George Haskell was named adviser, and that no money has been spent. He asserted his letter to W J Kittle contained no reference to any appointment. A milk industry conference was planned among producers.
Sir Stephen son Kent director of Britain’s labor supply department arrives in Pittsburg with four ministry officials for a two day inspection of major steel mills and allied plants. The mission will also visit Indianapolis Chicago Detroit Cleveland Buffalo New York and Boston.
Col Newbill in charge of campgrounds at Vicksburg National Military Park announced to the Secretary of War that arrangements are complete to care for 12 060 veterans expected for the national memorial blue and gray reunion from October 16 to 19 in Vicksburg Mississippi.
Tenor John McCormack opened the season at the Boston Opera House with Andre Polak and Edwin Schneider. The audience packed the house and demanded encores as McCormack offered Handel Schubert Brahms and Irish songs with precise diction and musical finesse. Polak delivered vivid violin solos and Schneider supported with adept piano.
The performance showed Mr. McCormack overcoming a cold with repeated handkerchief use yet delivering high quality music. The program testified to his seriousness and ability to convey composers' ideas clearly to all listeners.
Mildred Thorne age 13 of 1% Gould Street Stoneham was struck by a car while walking in the Middlesex Fells near Main Street and Chandler Road Stoneham. The driver Paul Lebel of 34 Winter Street Lawrence took her to Metropolitan Park police station with cuts abrasions and two dislocated knees. She was later moved to Park Hospital Stoneham.
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