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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1905
Page
9
A vintage health ad promotes Cascarets as a cure for coated tongue heartburn belching and constipation. It stresses exercise for bowel muscles over harsh laxatives, urges carrying the ten cent box, and notes Sterling Remedy Company makes genuine tablets stamped CC G with free sample and booklet Curse of Constipation.
Harvard football team shows improvement on Boldiers Field with a 12 minute period scoring on the scrub. Wendell runs in for a touchdown from gaps opened by Squires and Brill. Hurley, back in the lineup, demonstrates sharp play before an early head impact and substitution by Wendell.
New York dispatch notes Hlbridge T. Gerry returned from Europe and doubts Lipton will renew a challenge while expressing hope for a German challenge. The item also mentions baseball notes including Buck Freeman and Dineen's performances, and pennant race talk in Philadelphia.
Four no hit games have been pitched this season. Christy Matheson blanked Chicago, Weldon Henley silenced St. Louis, Frank Smith beat Detroit without a hit, and yesterday Dineen shut out Chicago. Last season Cy Young did the Athletics without a hit, a record game with no one reaching first base.
The National Association of Motor Cyclists plans a Cambridge track meet next Saturday afternoon. Riders from the last meet have entered for the new contests including one and two mile novice races, two and five mile amateur handicap events, and a five mile free-for-all. Silver cups reward novice winners, three cups for amateur winners, and one special cup goes to the free-for-all champion.
At Rochester New Hampshire today five races were run with all favorites beaten. Nellie IL won the 2:21 trot in heat two with 2:18% time. Frank 8 captured the 2:09 pace in straight heats and McDougall won the 2:17 trot. Geraldine won the 2:18 pace after five heats, best heat 2:18%. The 2:19 trot was unfinished.
Melrose and Dorchester High played to a 1 1 draw yesterday at Dorchester High Park with both teams matching each other in score and effort.
Dorchester High and Melrose High played two 15 minute halves without scoring as Dorchester threatened near the five yard line but costly fumbles ended their drives. Vanderwat led the Dorchester lineup with Morse, Fogg, and Beeler among others in a tight, error plagued scrimmage.
Mechanic Arts High defeated Roxbury Latin School eleven 5-0 at Franklin Field yesterday. In the second half Roxbury moved into Mechanics territory but fumbled the ball to Miller who returned it for a touchdown.
Dartmouth opened the football season with an 84 to 0 victory over Norwich University at home. Main scored two touchdowns and three goals after, with Rich Coburn Rix and Hencaze also crossing the line. Main added three extra points as Bankart, Pendleton, Cableton, Lillard and Walker officiated the game played in two 15 minute halves.
Princeton opened the season with a 41 to 0 victory over Villanova in Princeton New Jersey. The game featured several end runs by Simons and Bard and frequent fumbles but the Princeton squad displayed strong stamina. Cooney and McCormick joined mass plays, with nine substitutes seeing action and showing solid form.
Somerville High won its first football game on Broadway field yesterday afternoon defeating Boston College Prep School 14 to 0. The Somerville team outweighed their opponents but fumbled twice to spoil two scoring chances.
New Hampshire College opened its football season against Bates with a 0 0 draw. At the end of the game two Bates players tried to take the ball from a New Hampshire player and police intervened to stop a potential fight.
Cornell defeated Hamilton College 5 to 0 in Ithaca showing weak teamwork and costly fumbles. Earle scored the only touchdown on an 85 yard run in the second half.
At Geeten Gretta Bence and Syracuse Charlottesville University a Vvinta 59 Randolph Macon College 0. Match results show high scoring teams and margin of victory in the listed games.
Griffiths of New York announces two catchers Jacklitsch of Providence and Connor of Newark plus third baseman Cockman of Newark join the Americans for the remainder of the season.
In Jersey City on September 27, lightweight champion Carter was knocked out by a ram named Jim, mascot of Pat Cahill's gym. The animal intervened after a medicine ball struck it, delivering a swift blow that felled Carter. He spent two hours recovering before leaving.
Audubon Boy and Sweet Marie tried to lower Belmont Driving Park track records in Philadelphia on September 27 but fell short. Audubon Boy’s best was 2:08 1-2, with quarters 80 1-2, 69 1-4, 1:31 1-28, 2:08 1-2, failing to beat 1:59 8-4 set by Star Pointer. Sweet Marie went 2:06, short of Crescens’s 2:04 1-2, with quarters 30 1-2, 1:00 1-2, 1:33 1-2, 2:06.
Harvard reads a large Yale and Boston area talent slate with Chalifaux out for Harvard while Root and Russell debut from Hill and Worcester High. Princeton eyes a fall final with Simons at halfback as Leighton misses due to typhoid and several Interscholastic standouts prepare for Bowdoin and Anna polis.
A Brookline socialite drew sharp questions from officials after a late night fire box mix up. An alarm from Chestnut Hill prompted a townwide fire response before police and fire crews discovered the box owner simply intended to mail a letter. The unnamed woman argued she mistook the box, and the chief returned crews to their stations amid her indignation.
Frank A. Brastow, general agent of the Safety Car Heating and Lighting Company, killed in the Paoli wreck, hosted a dinner with 13 at the table last Sunday. Reportedly he asked on Monday, I wonder who will be the first to die.
Richard K. Fox received a divorce decree after Helen A. Fox aged 58 eloped with Alfred Stein a Hungarian army officer. The couple sailed on June 21 1904 using aliases Perminia Fuchs and Alfred O Freidburg while her husband and a son stayed in Palm Beach for health.
Knights from Charlottetown gathered for special sessions with visiting members from St John New Brunswick and Boston delayed en route. A large procession proceeded to St Dunstan Cathedral where a high mass was held and a sermon was delivered by Rev Father Kelly of Lapeer Michigan.
August Belmonts Tiptoe defeated Zisnap and Single Shot to win the second half of the Produce stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Brighton Beach. Other winners included Charley in the first race, Grandpa second, Aeronaut third, Lord of the Vale fifth, Quadrille sixth, and Alma Dufor seventh with varying weights and times.
Victor Hatherley, a hydraulic engineer, recounts being hired at midnight by Colonel Lysander Stark for a secret project. He travels to an isolated house, meets a frightened woman, and discovers a forbidding atmosphere as German books and a hidden machine loom, with danger hinted at in the shadowed hall.
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