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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1916
Page
21
Constantine Dolas a strike breaker was arrested by Chelsea police for carrying an automatic pistol with which he dispersed a mob of striking shoe workers after being assaulted and beaten on his way to work. Police did not arrest his assailants.
Preparations for the fall football campaign at Somerville High began yesterday when Coach Charley Dickerman gathered a squad of about 60 boys and led them through initial drills. Two practice sessions are scheduled for today at 10 AM and 3 PM.
The State Board of Health announced seventeen infantile paralysis cases last night with new outbreaks in Pittsfield and Newburyport. One death occurred in Pittsfield, the city’s fifth. A new case was reported in East Boston a two year old girl on Sumner Street.
State officials report postponements in Cambridge Fall River Amesbury North Andover Springfield Westfield Ludlow Adams Bernardston as Amherst College delays its opening by two weeks. Entrance exams start Sept 27 and recitations Oct 6 as the school committee of Everett votes to delay the opening.
Play started yesterday at Woodland Golf Club for the annual three day fall tourney. In the 18 hole qualification only one of 104 broke 80 amid ideal conditions. Two lower divisions will use their State handicaps today and tomorrow.
Public schools shift start from Sept 11 to Sept 25 as a precaution. The Boston Music School Settlement and Notre Dame Academy also postpone openings. Newburyport reports three cases, Pittsfield adds four with one death, Arlington records a case, and Somerville delays start to Sept 25 after health guidance.
F Mortimer Lamb of Boston and Stoughton recovered his painting The End of the Trail after a three year search. The work was stolen while on exhibition in Philadelphia and a detective agency helped locate the can va s.
Charles S Skehens of Woodland and Woods Hole scores 77 to claim the gold medal for the low round. He parred the last two holes, holed a 7 foot putt on the 17th, and a 15 foot birdie on the 18th to finish 36 on the inward half, with key shots securing the win.
St Frisco won the Charter Oak stake for 2:08 trotters at Charter Oak Park in Hartford as two world records were established this afternoon after six thrilling heats of light harness racing.
Second heat declared a dead heat at 2:07 1/4, overturning the 1904 world mark at Brighton Beach. Three events on the card produced fast, close finishes with Mabel Trask unable to overtake St Frisco in the final stretch.
Mrs Iva Barnes, bound over to the grand jury on a murder charge for her husband James R Barnes death, repudiates police attributed confession saying she is innocent and heartbroken. The couple, estranged, were walking in Washington Park when he was shot.
Harvard opened the 1916 football season with 50 candidates under Captain Cadman. A thin veteran base and lack of coaches marked the first day as Leo Leary led the field drill with assistants while Cadman supervised linemen and backs in light conditioning and non contact exercises.
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