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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1899
Page
3
A bold advertisement touts Dr. Liverpool at 232 Tremont Street offering free diagnosis with no prior exam. It lists vast cure tallies for diseases from rheumatism to neuralgia and claims free medicines, urging readers to seek a verdict on cure at Tremont Street offices.
Sir Thomas Lipton was hosted for an elaborate dinner at the Metropolitan Club by J Pierpont Morgan on October 23. About fifty prominent yacht club members, including Commodore Morgan and Sir Lipton, attended and spoke after the feast. Lipton departed for Chicago the next day.
Pillsbury of Somerville the American chess champion recently returned from Europe gave a blindfold exhibition at the YMCA rooms. He played six chess games and two checkers games, winning a double corner and drawing a white dyke while moving unseen. About 300 spectators watched, including ex-Mayor Hodgkins.
Unfavorable weather and wet grounds caused the postponement of the 18 hole ladies match at Newton Centre Golf Club. The preliminaries will be played on Langley Street grounds in Newton Centre.
The intercollegiate championship begins at Garden City Golf Club with teams Yale Harvard competing for the Ardsley Club cup and individual honors set for Thursday through Saturday. Yale needs one win, Harvard holds the team trophy. a new scoring system may be adopted and players like Miss Eunice Terry Miss Frances Grissom and Beatrix Hoyt receive attention. Gilbert Nichols sets a Hawthorne links record at New Bedford while Donald Ball posts 18 holes in 74 at New art Golf Club.
Harvard reports a secret practice where the second eleven with former guards scored from the thirty yard line against the varsity, the first Crimson TD this year. Lee gained the lone major on the day while the scrub outplayed the varsity in bursts, and coaches anticipate more hidden tricks once secret practice begins today.
Ed Dunkhorst of Syracuse lost to Peter Maher in the seventh round after repeatedly breaking the break on command and fouling, granting Maher the win. McCue and Cain fought to a fourth draw as Choynse whipped Moore in Syracuse, N Y on October 23.
Burdett College defeated Medford High School 15 to 0 in Medford as Robertson scored three touchdowns. No goals were kicked in the matchup, reflecting Burdett’s decisive win.
Yale aims for vigor and skill in three weeks with no protest planned over a key player. Penn hopes to present an invincible front against Harvard, aided by Outland and Overfield in the centre rush and strong end tackles. Princeton imitates form for battles with Yale and the Indians, while Walbridge faces criticism as he returns in Cornell gear for Thanksgiving.
In St Louis on October 23 Joe Choynski defeated Dick Moore in the St. Louis Athletic Club arena. The bout ended in the third round with referee Tim Mhurst presiding. Choynski dominated after the first round, using superior reach and skill. A curtain raiser featured Tommy Hogan and Jack O Keefe, with Hogan scoring a knockout in the seventh.
Marty McCue of Manhattan and Joe Cain of Brooklyn fought the fifth time tonight at the Hercules Athletic Club in Brooklyn. The 126 pound bout went two rounds under Marquis of Queensberry rules with clean breaks and ended in a draw, their fourth draw in five meetings.
Boxing gossip lists bouts and rumors from Kid McCoy to Jack O’Brien with fighters Inch by inch. It notes Fitzsimmons balking at McCoy for middleweight bragging rights while promoters schedule era heavyweights in New York and Baltimore gyms.
The Ward 9 Yacht Club annual meeting at American House elected commodore James Donovan and officers for the coming year. James A Collins named mayoral candidate, Patrick Bowen for alderman, and Frank J Gethro for councilman. The hall is set for December 4 at Catholic Union Hall.
Harvard leads a six man team to Glen Cove for the fourth annual intercollegiate golf championship with Yale, Princeton, and others, while Yale defends titles with Robertson Havemeyer Myers and others. The event features eighteen hole medal play and thirty six hole finals.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a cure all for kidney bladder and uric acid troubles. It claims broad constitutional benefits, urges doctoring the kidneys, lists symptoms, and offers free sample bottles and an accompanying booklet through the Boston Daily Post and Dr Kilmer & Co of Binghamton NY.
Newton Centre second team defeated the Framinghams by a 3 to 2 score on October 23 at Newton Centre. Players listed include C. W. Royse, G. H. Merritt, J. D. Greene, H. W. Smalley, T. Gilbert, W. Fowle, T. S. Kidder Jr, B. W. Kingsbury, H. Bailey, P. Be. Presbrey, C. Hunter, H. K. Brown with final tallies shown for each pairing.
Harvard hosts the Weld Regatta on a shortened one third mile course above Boylston Street Bridge in Cambridge. Races include eights fours pairs and singles with focus on starting speed rather than distance.
Harvard has sold the famous launch John Harvard to Wisconsin, with coach Andrew O'Dea from Wisconsin overseeing its move from Cambridge to Madison. The vessel trained hundreds of Harvard crews, but in recent years saw Weld duty while the new launch Frank Thompson served the varsity.
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