Thrills in Sports Fade as Modern Rules Shape Games
Maynard at Sportdom with Al Cowles reflects on declining thrills across sports. Baserunning loses daring steals to sac bunts, football softens with new rules, boxing lacks punch, track still excites, golf and tennis fail to thrill. Recounts two vivid moments, Dempsey Sharkey and Harvard Army game, urging new feats to revive interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AL Cowles
Tin Pan Alley
Teddy Merrick
Leominster
Ifie
Merrick
Dempsey Sharkey
Dempsey
Sharkey
Harvard Army
Dearie
National Bank of Warsaw
Shiek
Babe Dedrickson
Tolan
Gordon
Metcalf
Lost Cat With Pink Nose in Sudbury
Lost black cat with pink nose white chest and four white feet. Reward offered. Finder please contact Little Log Cabin in South Sudbury by phone Sudbury 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sudbury
Political Calendar for State Primaries and State Election
Town Clerk announces the sequence of deadlines for nominations amendments and withdrawals across August to November for state primaries and election. Key dates include Aug 12 16 and 19 for nominations and withdrawals Aug 23 for vacancies Sept 2 9 20 24 25 26 27 for filings conventions and acceptances Sept 29 and Oct 3 4 5 6 10 14 for further nominations vacancies and district duties culminating in the State Election on Nov 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam Walsh
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Hudson Riverside Gun Club Plans August Stage Shoot
Hudson River side gun club will stage a trapshoot on River Street Saturday August 13 with rifle shooting and casting events. A major prize is a double barreled single trigger gun. Sunday August 14 the club sponsors a double header at Riverside Park with Jack Beavis and his Eight Sons of Bridgewater in the first game and Bolton Town versus Auburnville Improvements Association of Bridgewater in the second.
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River Street
Riverside Park
Gui
Jack Beavis
Bridgewater
Bolton Town
Auburnvile Improvements Association of
Bridge Water
Sudbury Old Timers Rally Past Nurserys In Sudbury Title
Sudbury Old Timers defeated Nurserys 15 to 6 in the Sudbury league opener. Foss and Fairbanks homered while Bowry starred for the Old Timers. Nurserys managed seven hits to Old Timers fourteen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sudbury
Nurssr
Foss
Fairbanks
Bowry
Nursery
Nurseries
Standing of the Clubs and Local News Notes
The column lists club standings with Old Timers and Legion teams and notes Bowry as the league’s top scorer with seven hits in eight at bats. Town clerk Frank F. Gerry and Mrs. Gerry with daughter Mrs. Charles William Wood of Rock Island Illinois have returned from Nantucket.
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Oebaweee
Cues Te Egek
Frank F. Gerry
Gerry
Charles William Wood
Rock Island, Il
Nantucket
Woman wins blanket prize in local contest
Mrs Charles W Molloy of Pope Street won the expensive blanket in a special contest conducted by James J Wal.
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Blake
Freeport
Long Island
Channon Bendix
Europe
Uate
New York
Vincent Bendix
Chicago
Ju Aie
Maynard Branch
Frank E. Sanderson
Nason Street
Maynard
Hudson Operative
Pope Street
Hudson Co
Crowe
Beauty Shop
Rowe’s Beauty Shop
Eason St
Shepard
Carter Furniture Company
aeaIa
Tela
Massachusetts
Forgotten Commandments
Sari Maritza
Gene Raymond
Irving Pichel
Sun
Loretta Young
Norman Foster
Western Electric Sound
Edw.g
Ad Obinsor
Vivienh
Guy
Dramat
Grorce O’brien
Aline
Macmahon
George
Brent
Summer ST
Maynard Tel
Littlefield’s
Arlington Sts
W. Acton
Libby
William Graves
Aire
GUN Club
Hudson — Riverside Gun Club
Hudson
Moosehide
Bernard R. Hubbard
Santa Clar
San Francisco
Father Hubbard
Alaska
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