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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1904
Page
8
A local shop touts Morse made clothing with fast disappearing kicks. They claim no tailor in town would charge over ten dollars more for suits and overcoats priced at twenty five dollars. The dollar glove is touted as great value.
Extra street car service will run from Scollay and Adams squares to Western Avenue and Harvard Square from 12 18 to 1 40 p m with cars every minute to the field. Additional service from Boylston and Charles streets and from Park Street subway, plus Roxbury Cambridge lines, Brookline Village to Allston station, after the game. Transfers available at Scollay square to all points north and south.
Penn coach Williams promises a hard fast game at Soldiers Field as his light team, plagued by weight disadvantage, prepares to challenge Harvard's powerful backfield. He declines to predict the outcome, noting many players will have their first big game while hoping for dry weather and a strong start to keep the score close.
New York Oct 28 Walter Clarkson will train this winter to become a star pitcher in 1905. Clarkson will spend a month in Bay City Michigan with his brother John learning full body swing and two months on Clark Griffiths Montana ranch to gain 20 pounds. Griffith predicts Clarkson will rival Chesbro and notes he has turned down a 70000 offer.
In the open women’s golf final at New Haven Country Club Miss Geor Gianna Bishop of Brooklawn Bridgeport defending national champion fell to Miss Pauline Mackay of Oakley Watertown 1 up after 19 holes. A large gallery watched a tight even match. Miss Mackay’s win was well earned. In the consolations Mrs BE Sanford Essex County Club defeated Miss G Travers Nassau 56 up 4 to play.
Boston University freshmen and sophomores met at Franklin Field in a football game won by the sophomores 17 to 0. Standout players included Taylor, former Wesleyan varsity man, for the sophomores, and Geeola and Greenan for the freshmen. The listed lineup features Gordon Siveekees Edwards, Leach, Leach, Greenan, Gates, Volpe, and Thacker among others.
Exeters star captain Donald MacFayden, a former Lawley shipyard boilermaker, has risen from obscure beginnings to become a top East player. He will lead Exeter against Andover in a clash of giants as he looks toward Harvard in college.
Today's grid lists Harvard at Cambridge Penn and Yale at New York plus Princeton at Ithaca Colby at Rochester Virginia at Charlottesville and many more. Senior and junior leagues include Interscholastic games in Somerville Brockton Gloucester Waltham Haverhill and other towns with local stakes and rivalries. Hyde Park actions raise caution after rough Dorchester clash.
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