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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1915
Page
3
The Cumberland Press asks patrons and friends to telephone personals and their news items to the paper. Any matter of interest will be greatly appreciated by the editor.
New York boxing promoters on the East Side and Harlem face a new levy as the state athletic commission targets small clubs. The tax is five percent of gross receipts, with back arrears to be collected if possible. Also notes potential welterweight bouts involving Fredie Welsh and Joe Shugrue, and Willie Ritchie aiming to regain a title against an American challenger. Vital statistics show births totaling 12 and deaths including Mrs Page Weller and Annie Kaboskey.
The calendar lists events for Monday through Saturday including the Vanderbilt Cup auto race at the Panama-Pacific Exposition course, A A U basketball in San Francisco, Colorado State and Ohio golf and chess opens, Westminster Kennel Club show in New York, and many boxing matches. Also noted are auto shows in Sioux Falls and South Bethlehem, plus national billiards, beach shows, track and field meets, and national championships across multiple cities.
A landslide of earth and rock slid onto the Baltimore and Ohio tracks near the Black Pump Mill at Harpers Ferry after a thaw. Fourteen year old Harry Schultz of Bolivar alerted train crews, likely preventing a wreck as about 50 tons covered the rails. The slide halted eastbound trains for three hours and westbound for one, with Brunswick crews dynamiting a large boulder to clear the cut.
W A Davis of Elkins visits Cumberland relatives while A W Calloway of Davis Coal and Coke visits B Nichol Co in Philadelphia. Wilmer Benjamin becomes Harper's Ferry postal transfer clerk. Margaret Vermilyea visits grandparents in Hedgesville. Howard Cross of Emeryville with Carroll Pattison notes many coal company headquarters in city. Mrs C E Crowe returns to Meyersdale from Frostburg after a week with relatives.
Jersey City lightweight Joe Shugrue faces Akron’s pride Johnny Griffiths in a six round bout on Monday night in Griffiths home city. Shugrue plans a hot pace from the opening bell as Griffiths recently drew with Cleveland featherweight Johnny Kilbane. some fans credited Griffiths with the better showing.
In the best played local junior game this season the Keyser Boy Scouts beat the Rose Buds 33 to 30 Saturday night. Mills and Ast starred for Keyser while Deetz and Hartman led the Rosebuds. lineup and field goals show L Mills 9, Ast 4, Deetz 6, Taylor 5, Hartman 2. Referee Johnson.
Week ending February 20 standings show German Brewery defeating Canty’s by 60 pins on Canty’s lanes. German Brewery team scores 638 618 674 while Canty’s posts 594 646 645.
Rev Linwood Hammond pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church South delivered the principal address at the mess meeting held at the Leader Theatre yesterday afternoon. A large crowd attended, one of the season’s biggest.
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