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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1906
Page
9
With three weeks left in the baseball season the American League race tightens as New York and Chicago compete for the lead. The Cubs visit the South End tomorrow after a week of mixed results for Tenney's team, while Pat Donovan’s Brooklyn surge and Ferris Heydon clashes spark ongoing clubhouse discourse.
The Postal Telegraph team claims fastest semi pro status in Greater Boston after July and August wins. Comiskey bans pop at Umpire Evans to curb bottle throwing in Chicago. Cincinnati fans enter free. one man claims second childhood to see the Cincinnatis. Elmer Bates proposes Bill Armour as umpire supervisor. Ban Johnson runs umpire affairs smoothly. Tenney’s players Bates Needham and Young praised by the New York Sun. Glaze of New York Delivery noted for eccentric delivery. If Chick Stahl’s team plays West as in New York, Clark Griffith will be pleased. The season’s old gag about this being my last year in baseball persists. McGraw and Elberfeld in separate leagues would spark a riot if they met.
Ithaca N Y Sept 16 Charles Courtney rowing coach of Cornell announces that disputes with the athletic council are settled and he will continue to lead the crews as before.
Chicago closed its home season with an easy win over Pittsburg. Hillebrand pitched cleverly but poor support and wild throws by Leach and Meter produced four of Chicago's five runs. Thirteen thousand fans attended the contest. The score was not fully reported.
Cincinnati defeated St Louis in the opener as the visitors outbatted the hometowners. The second game was halted after five innings with the score tied at 2 to 2 by mutual consent.
Chicago defeated Detroit 2 to 0 in a fast pitchers battle. Chicago scored in the third on two singles and a sacrifice, then added another run in the eighth on a forceout a single and a double. Attendance was 15 000. The secret
Cleveland defeated St. Louis 2 to 0 as Howell faltered with wild pitching in the first and sixth innings, allowing the visitors to score both runs.
A compilation of Q and A items about New York Americans captain Elberfeld. Questions cover team lineups of Boston Americans in 1901, game schedules, and notable throwing records including Edward Crane 135 yards 1-2 inches and Larry Twitchell’s near record.
The piece notes the season’s end approach with limited change in Boston teams batting. Away games expose slumps while home games show gains for some players like Morgan and Armbruster. Grimsby and Hoey show declines. Hayden and Godwin benefit from recent returns amid the Nationals’ steady batting.
Boston sportswriters expect a second Gans Nelson bout with a $10,000 side bet. Gans leads in public opinion and will likely set the terms. He may drop three weigh ins and push for 133 pounds at 3 p m to allow rest before the fight.
The week promises little on the boxing front nationwide The standout is Kid Goodman versus Herrera at Chelsea with Goodman said to be back to his best A new Haverhill club opens next Friday with Arthur Cote and Harry Edels in a 12 round clash Referee Jack Sheehan will render a decision No seats reserved in advance forthcoming Valley Falls bout features Martin Canole and Dave Deshler 135 pounds at 8 pm The South welterweight champion Herman Miller meets Martin in Portland Me next week Jack Sullivan to perform a Klondike stunt Billy Bates opposes Jack Sullivan in Fairbanks Joe Walcott visiting Leavenworth to inform Billy Rhoades of his chloroform bundle.
A year after Katherine L. Wilks bought Kentucky Todd for $10,000 at Lexington, the Todd colt trained by Harry Stinson has improved to a mile in 2:15 and aims to match the 2:12 two year old trial of grandsire Bingen. The horse, bred from Todd and dam Paronella, is in Canada and in Lexington for the Futurity prep.
At the Garden City Hotel drawing for Vanderbilt cup elimination starts Ernest Keeler on Olds leads with No 1. The field lists 2 Pope Toledo 8 Matheson 4 Thomas Callois 5 Maxwell 6 Thomas Le Blon 7 Thomas Roberts 8 Frayer-Miller Frayer 9 Christie 10 Apperson 11 Frayer-Miller Lawwell 12 Locomobile 14 Haynes 15 B L M 16 Frayer-Miller Belden and no 13. The top five finishers will represent America. the Thomas team appears strongest with three cars starting 4th 6th and 7th. A noted feature is the dog-cutter device on the Thomas cars to cut cleanly through dogs and reduce steering damage. Gustave Caillois, driving a Thomas car, demonstrated prior use with a sheep in the Gordon-Bennett race.
London reports wide post race talk on Harvard Cambridge results and future opponents Yale may face Cambridge or Oxford. The standout proposal is Cornell versus Cambridge to decide whether American or English rowing styles prevail, with Harvard improving abroad and Cornell needing gains to claim current supremacy.
London September 16 Lord Curzon is overwhelmed by his wife’s death and has largely withdrawn from political life It is believed he will not appear in the House of Commons for years He plans a world tour starting soon visiting America and other countries including Persia where he served in diplomacy.
George E. McQuesten of Boston secretary of the Glidden Touring Trophy Commission calls a meeting at the Waldorf Astoria New York to hear the touring committee report and award the trophy on Friday noon October 5.
Parental Home authorities have purchased the Morrison estate adjoining the facility to build a home for truant and wayward girls. The property fronts Morrison street and extends to the Charles River, abutting the existing Parental Home.
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