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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1910
Page
7
Waco March 16 Indoor session featured manager Carr delivering a blunt lecture on training and effort. He chided sluggish players, praised the diligent, and promised a strong southbound trip ahead. Marquard, transferred from the Giants to New York, shows potential with McGraw guiding adjustments.
New York reports five of six players selected for the intercollegiate cable chess match against Oxford and Cambridge. Penn is represented by W T Whitaker and W H Hughes, Yale by J R Chandler, Princeton by L W Stephens, and Cornell by L Tos. A sixth spot will be decided by a Burgess versus Jefferson match at Yale, with April 2 proposed as the match date.
In New York on March 16 Caspar Leon, once bantamweight champion, was summoned to Harlem court by his wife Minnie who seeks child support for their three children. Leon and George Dixon had flourished in boxing 15 years ago.
The athletic association begins a three race cross country series from Butler college with a trophy for the top points scorer. The second race is Friday and the final run is scheduled for next Tuesday. Start times are 4 30 p m with about three miles per race.
Ray Bronson trains for an eight round fight against Tommy O Keefe to be held next Tuesday at the Armory Athletic duo in Boston. Bronson has other bouts in view including a planned match with Pirato in New Orleans on April 3. He departs Indianapolis Friday for Boston.
Eagles manager William Bevelch organizes early Shelbyville baseball season as recruits prepare for tryouts amid a ramping team effort. Teams and players are ready for camps and regional competition.
A collision on a bridge near Hudson Avenue and Nassau Street split the Pullman sleeping car Ctpango from a Syracuse-bound train, half carried into the street and half dangling from the bridge. Fire started in wreckage and car furnishings, with many passengers on four trains injured. ambulances and doctors rushed to the scene and reserves called to control crowds as crews worked to clear tracks.
Joe Kelly reports from Camp Waco on player size and athletic notes. Big Simeon Murch dominates with large feet and hands, shedding seven pounds in a day. Texas college stars may turn pro after the season, while Al Orth faces an X-ray for a shoulder injury and McGraw notes Marquard’s speed but control issues.
John H. Santory bought an auto to learn driving alone in Kingston New Jersey. He crashed into a clothing store front injuring a bystander and dislocating a friend. The car wreck caused glass and debris, but Santory escaped unharmed. His lesson weighed in at $500.
At Little Rock the Cardinals Regulars beat the Colts 12 to 2. Reds won against the Colts at Hot Springs in six innings 4 to 2. Boston American Regulars 3 Sec onds 2, Brooklyn Regulars 4 Seconds 0. St Louis Browns 8 Houston 1. Sox Vannigans 0 Portland 0.
John Tait of Toronto defeated George Bonhag of the Irish American club in a special 144 mile race at the New York Athletic Club games held at Madison Square Garden. Tait won by 30 yards in a record time of 6 hours 52 minutes.
Howard Camnitz signs with the Pittsburgh Pirates amid uncertainty over an $800 raise. Sam Leever remains the lone Pirates holdout as Camnitz joins the group at West Baden for spring work.
Stanley Ietchel arrives from Hot Springs en route to Pittsburg to meet undefeated middleweight Jimmy Howard in Memphis on April 6 at the A. venue.
Four eight round bouts last night in Boston produced a draw between Jimmy Walsh and Albert Delmont with Walsh showing the stronger punching but backing off. Kyle Whitney defeated Dixie Kid after the traveler’s long rail journey left him fatigued. Tommy O Keefe stopped Frank Perron on a chopping block while outweighing him by 20 pounds. Kid Shea defeated Tommy Langdon as Philadelphia’s rep failed to impress. All fights went the full distance.
In Philadelphia at the Douglas Athletic Club on March 11 Young Loughery of Manayunk and Leo Houck of Lancaster fought a rough wind-up from start to finish. Houck secured the better work at long range with steady left jabs, while Loughery gained the edge in close and repeatedly forced the Lancaster fighter to the ropes. The bout ended in a draw, seen as a fair result given the action throughout.
The automobile record trials scheduled for Daytona Beach were postponed to today due to the tide rising too quickly to permit the timing apparatus to be set. Barney Oldfield with a 200 horsepower Benz, George Robertson in the Christy racer, and David Bruce Brown in a 120 horsepower Henz drove exhibition miles with no time recorded.
Thomas Hueston of St. Louis defeated Fred Eames of Denver in the second block of the 150-point world three-cushion billiards match in Denver. Hueston led the overall score 100 to 88 after the two blocks.
Evansville Central league manager Aggie Crant announces the signing of Hubert Hadley, an infielder, formerly with the Flint team in the Southern Michigan league. Hadley joins Evansville as the season opens in March.
Tonight Cicero faces H Company Second Regiment National Guard in a basketball game at the armory located at Thirteenth Street and Ashland Avenue.
Rochester dispatch reports the Buffalo express was rear-ended by the West Shore limited on March 16. One brakeman, W. M. Caldwell of Buffalo, died instantly. six passengers seriously injured and about a score with minor injuries. The crash followed a broken coupling and a secondary collision with No. 29 near Ludson Avenue.
After a three day trial in Ithaca Paul and Sam Williams of Salt Lake City and Clarence Pope of Mast Orange N J were found guilty of disorderly conduct and fined 50 each or 50 days jail They appealed The trio members of Ubi Psi fraternity clashed with Ithaca police after being ejected from a cafe on February 22 Williams was injured and officers bruised City Attorney McAllister denounced professors who vouched for the men as crowding the courtroom in their favor.
In New York Mile. Pavlova notes similarities between Russian and American women as they gain new freedoms. She cites women doctors, lawyers, and stenographers in Russia, praise for liberty of dress and thought, and observes Americans as reserved yet appreciative audiences and gallant businessmen.
Moores Hill Indiana reports the yearly athletic carnival, postponed from March 1 to April, aligning with visitors for President King’s inauguration and potentially boosting the event’s prominence. Easter opening not noted.
Indianapolis boxers and wrestlers headline the Arcadia program on March 20. Qarry Donovan versus Young Kiefer, both of Indianapolis, clash over six rounds. Howard Wiggam, a fast local welterweight, meets Young Wal lace of Fort Wayne in a ten round bout.
Harry Mayes arrested in Springfield Kentucky on child desertion is brought to Indianapolis and arraigned for not guilty. Bertha Wakeland leaped from a car window. Hoytes charged with abetting escape. Elve Shannon arraigned for assault with intent to kill Ray Cook.
Paris reports the royal Dutch West Indies mail liner Pring Willem I, missing since January 21 with 53 aboard, washed ashore on Belle Isle off France. The vessel left Amsterdam for Paramaribo with 38 crew and 14 passengers, hunted by the Dutch cruisers Utrecht and Prinz Willem IV.
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