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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1911
Page
13
Weather limits play but a rare double session is planned at Huntington Avenue with the Athletics, champions, visiting the Red Sox. Opening game at 1 30 PM, tickets scarce as rain washed out prior play. Connie Mack expresses confidence in his lineup and hints at strong pitching for the stretch run. Collins expected to return tomorrow despite nose injury.
Boston prepares to field full strength as Harry Hooper returns to right field and Eddie Collins reclaims second base. Chief Bender and Eddie Plank will pitch, with Cicotte and Collins in reserve. The team, arriving from a rough Chicago trip, seeks solid form in the next series, while fans recall the straw hat tradition amid travel weariness and renewed fanfare. Henriksen leads the batting with .333 during the trip as Boston eyes improved hitting.
On the first day of the Cape catboat championship at Hull under the Boston Y. C. the I. O. U. of Monument Beach owned by W. W. Phinney led on percentage after winning both morning and afternoon races. Despite leading, she finished second on corrected time to the Dolly III in the morning and to the Iris in the afternoon as each 9 1 4 mile race concluded with tricky marks and fouls by the Iris.
In morning racing the Tris fouled the turning mark at Strawberry Hill and was disqualified. Results show I. U. with two seconds, Dolly III first and fourth, Iris zero and first, Clara two thirds, Emeline fourth and sixth, Mudjekeewis fifth, Arawaka sixth and fifth, Busy Bee seventh and did not start in afternoon, Dartwell eighth and seventh. Conditions were severe with rain and a northwest wind. all boats except Iris reefed in morning.
In the afternoon race Tris Dolly Arawak and Busy Bee started ahead but only Dolly and Arawak finished with captain Coombs missing the call. Clara led at Peddocks while I O U took the lead toward Sheep Island and Iris surged to the front at Strawberry Hill before I O U repassed Tris and Clara.
The column surveys fighters and athletes like Marty O'Toole Tex Ramsdell and Archie Hahn. It notes debate over champions in boxing and sprinting and predicts East and West centers of power while forecasting Olympic chances for athletes such as John Flanagan and Joe Jeannette.
Answers to queries show Cy Young with two wins for the Boston Nationals this season. He was not charged with a loss after eight runs scored in his first outing against the Cincinnatis. Also notes Harry Hutchins’s 800 yards in 80 seconds, credited by the English Sporting Chronicle as achieved January 2, 1884 at Powder Hall Grounds, Edinburgh. Langford is acknowledged as the light heavyweight champion.
The Greater Boston barbers schedule a Labor Day field day at Foss Park Jamaica Plain featuring a ball game between Barbers Union players and Cigarmakers Union teammates.
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency sold the 25 foot Chewink II of Pawtucket owner Lester W. Millman to William H. Frizzell of East Boston. The 388 foot motor boat Peggy owned by E. E. Eaton of Boston was sold to Francis Crowninshield of Peach's Point Marblehead.
British distance star Al Shrubb arrived for a 10 mile match with Tom Longboat at Oak Island Park Labor Day and said he has been offered Harvard cross country coach but had not decided yet. If he joins Cambridge, Harvard should show strength in upcoming meets.
In his first year he lifted Harvard from obscurity to third place in the intercollegiate cross country championship. Last year he led wins over Tech and Yale in the annual meets and Harvard finished second to Cornell at Princeton in the intercollegiate contest.
Rain in Newport delayed the final match of the national lawn tennis tournament. President James Dwight said players would decide on a rest day between the finals and the challenge match due to a week of enforced idleness.
The Boston American League Baseball Club closed a deal to hold its 1912 spring training at Toga Texas, located 59 miles north of Fort Worth, Fort Worth area.
Baltimore defeated Buffalo 5 to 0 while Montreal triumphed 7 to 4 over Newark. Rochester posted a 5 to 0 win against Jersey City in a day of high scoring hockey results.
A sequence of baseball scores shows New Orleans 2 over Mobile 1, Chattanooga 4 over Memphis 3, Nashville 2 over Atlanta 1, Montgomery 8 over Birmingham 0 in the first game, and Birmingham 4 over Montgomery 8 in the rematch.
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