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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1909
Page
12
Chicago March 8 Packey Farland sails for New York to begin training for his March 23 bout with Leach Cross at the National Athletic Club. Farland drops to 135 pounds to meet Cross, leaving the welterweight class.
Jack Johnson, heavyweight champion, arrives in Galveston Texas to visit his mother and receive a parade and reception. Locals prepare to honor their idol with extensive arrangements as word spreads of his return.
In Chicago on March 1 twenty citizens replaced horses to pull an ambulance racing a dying man to a hospital. The patient, John Makins, a laborer, died en route.
The Lipman team of Chicago set a five man record of 2962 at the ninth annual American Bowling congress tournament in Pittsburg on Saturday night. Detroit sent a 13 team delegation and hopes the 1910 convention will go there. Individual and two man scores followed with top marks by Bartsch and others from Chicago Toledo and Pittsburg.
The Y M C A basketball team defeated Sparta 46 to 28 in a fast paced contest. L Nelson and Horton led with 15 field goals combined as team play outweighed Sparta star Abrahamson. Next Saturday the locals host Winona at the Armory hall on a neutral floor.
At Madison Square Garden the six day go as you please race began with 26 teams. Old timers P J Dineen and W F Prouty set a brutal early pace forcing retirements and eliminations. Hartley and Higgins failed to pair, Hartley joining Christy late and shouldering most work. By 8 am Dineen and Prouty led by two miles over Spring and Adams while financial losses threaten the event.
Promotional ad for a remedy claiming to cure a cold in one day using laxative bromosquinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails. Box bears E. W. Grove signature. Price listed as 25 cents.
Montreal March 8 During the 13 days of the Jockey club meeting at Blue Bonnets June 5 to 19 there will be over 40000 in purses seven stakes with added values from 2000 to 1000 dollars a new Windsor Hotel cup for three year olds and up at one mile and a furlong Montreal Jockey Club adding 1209 dollars
Indianapolis builds an all star roster for a pennant run in the American association. Burke, last year’s Louis Ville manager, joins as third baseman with Hooke Short. Livingston catching Carr at first and Williams at second return, Hayden who led the league batters last year also back from the Chicago Cubs.
New England's Jack Sullivan meets Jim Stewart of Brooklyn in a ten round bout in New York City. The winner earns a future shot at Big Al Kaufman who recently challenged Jim Jeffries and put up a $10,000 prize. Stewart has improved after a previous setback and his recent bouts ended in knockouts.
Tony Ross, slated to box Marvin Hart for twenty five rounds in New Orleans on March 12, faces court action by his manager Jimmy Dime. Dime seeks to restrain Ross from fighting locally, alleging contract violation by working with Harry Lewis of Youngstown. Ross claims he signed with Dime over nine years ago as an ignorant Italian miner and accuses Dime of repeated contractual breaches, asserting he may sever ties.
Fred Middleton of West Side Athletic Club telegraphs Battling Nelson an offer of ten thousand dollars for a win loss or draw bout with Freddie Welsh. Nelson may name date length and other terms if he agrees to meet Welsh in New Orleans.
San Francisco March 8. Racing men admit a test of the Walker Otis anti race track bill will be tried but the method remains undecided. H Williams president owner of Emeryville track and Santa Anita track chief dockholler has hired top legal talent to find a loophole to save the game.
Chicago March 8 Hugo Kelly sits on edge over a potential April bout with either Stanley Ketchel or Billy Papke at Charley Lereari's club in San Francisco. Kelly is willing to fight either opponent, but both men’s stance remains unclear.
Wallie Steffen, Stage’s assistant football coach for 1909, will make his first appearance as a varsity coach this afternoon at Marshall Field to supervise the first spring football practice of the season. He expects a large turnout of football candidates for the loosening up exercises.
J W Blythe general solicitor of the Burlington railroad died suddenly of heart failure Saturday at a hunting lodge north of Wapello Iowa. Blythe was a notable figure in railroad legal work and his death is reported from Des Moines Iowa with the March date.
February 1909 featured a shadowed groundhog day but a discordant month weatherwise. It recorded 11 precipitation days, 1.89 inches total rainfall, 16.9 inches snowfall, and a mean temperature of 22 degrees. Winds mostly southerly, total 3655 miles, with max five minute gusts at 21 mph from the southwest on the 4th.
In St Paul on March 8 the body of N Powers, pump repairer and operator, was found among pulsing machinery at the Chicago and Great Western pumphouse. His coat was caught on a revolving flywheel shaft, dragging him to death as he neared the dangerous machinery. Blood marks on the steam cylinder and cement floor document the tragedy.
Nelson will reach here this morning and depart for New York to arrange bouts with top eastern lightweights. His first opponent likely will be Owen Moran if an agreement can be reached.
A repairer fought to save himself from a horrific death as a pump disaster tore his fingers and hands to shreds. His body sustained multiple broken bones before he died.
Prof W F Durand head of Stanford engineering invents a device to double humanitys ability to study earthquakes. Used with seismograph it will register the speed of each earth particle during a quake, enhancing measurement of seismic disturbances and advancing knowledge.
Washington March 8. The 61st congress will open with a first resolution proposing an approach to constitutional change. The move signals an early effort to shape legislative priorities and governance.
Senator Depew of New York offers an amendment to the Constitution proposing substituting the last Wednesday in April for the 4th of March as the inauguration date. The proposal shifts the ceremonial timing and sparks discussion among lawmakers.
Chicago March 8 Theodor Roosevelt may not return alive if he pursues his plan to explore Africa’s dark regions for game. Prof Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago says the ex president lacks the temperament to withstand Congo Free State fever and the climate dangers he would face.
A man recounts being whipped as a boy and notes that women tend to sympathize while men imply he deserved the punishment.
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