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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
5
A survey of scholastic sports highlights schoolboy progress across football baseball track and field. Hill School’s Shrevelin set a world hammer record, Lawrenceville eclipsed rivals, and New England schools lead in football while New York lags due to internal wrangling.
D Phillips of Worcester Academy McGovern of Andover Tenney of Penn Charter Moore of Elmira Free Academy posted a vault of 10 feet 8 inches as the article notes a high standard in scholastic track and field. It observes how colleges monitor these embryo collegians and the strong turnout of freshmen on varsity teams. The past year is described as noteworthy for schools and its influence on college athletics.
A deed filed in Mineola transfers 666 acres between Rosedale and Queens to the Westchester Racing Association. The parcel includes farms and homes along Hempstead Turnpike and Jamaica Road, acquired largely by Jarvis K. Smith during the late 1910s racing buildup. Plans show three tracks a mile and a half circular main, a turf inner, and a one mile quarter third track for steeplechase and hurdles, with location public since November.
In the Manhattan Chess Club championship round a triangular tie began yesterday as Hanham defeated Halpern in 74 moves after a Bishop's opening. Phillips had a bye. Hanham will meet Phillips Friday evening in the series opener.
The sixth annual meeting of the Society of College Gymnasium Directors will be held next week at the New York Athletic Club. President Dr Paul Phillips of Amherst will give the annual address. Papers by Prof Goldie Princeton Dr Sargent Harvard and Dr Savage Columbia on training and correspondence schools. Yale and McGill speakers discuss speed endurance and overexertion.
New Orleans track fast as Hiram Johnson 109 pounds wins first race at seven furlongs. Athelene 100 pounds claims second in five furlongs. Boundlee leads selling six and a half furlongs for the third win. Elsie I wins the mile. Sarilla takes selling mile and a sixteenth. Aummer wins selling six and a half furlongs. Multiple horses also ran in each race with listed weights and times.
The program lists six races with weights for Fair Lass Judge urell An tonius Brief Agnes Mack Five furlongs features Kiwasa Glen don Tancred and Captain Gaston with town entries and notable weights. The day opens with six furlongs handicap style and ends with a selling mile and a quarter featuring Hattie Davis and Pay the Fiddler among others.
The National Athletic Club prepares to elect officers at its annual meeting at 11-18 Cedar Street Brooklyn. Dr. Charles J. Pflug leads the ticket as president with most current officers on the slate. The club reports growth, strong finances, gym updates, and improved athletic programs reflecting a year of progress.
Preparations for the fifteenth annual Christmas ride at Durland Riding Academy on West Sixty-sixth Street include a basketball game on ponies with society men, a new pashbail contest, Heatherbloom attempting a world high jump record, and performances by notable riders. The program features a quadrille in antique dress, a jeu de barre for a silver cup, tandem driving by the Tandem Club, and a high school exhibition.
Poor skating conditions in and around New York due to thin ice. Van Cortlandt Lake may open by Monday if cold weather continues. Bronx Park’s new five acre lake awaits thick ice while Verona Lake cancels races. Skating tonight limited to St Nicholas Rink and Clermont Rink with notable skaters including Harry MacDonald James Wray and others.
Princeton University hockey players held a lively practice at St. Nicholas Skating Rink and depart tonight under Assistant Manager A. Hazelhurst. The squad includes Captain L. B. Purnell and 12 others as they face games with Pittsburg Athletic Club, Pittsburg Interscholastic League, and Victoria Hockey Club. A final practice is scheduled today before departure.
After several weather delays the Gaelic hurling clash between the Meaghers of this city and the Wolfe Tones of Brooklyn will be decided this afternoon at Equitable Park. The match determines the Greater New York championship with both teams fielding their best players.
Princeton University chess team finalizes preparations for the intercollegiate tournament to be held in New York at Columbia Grammar School from December 29 to 31. Coach Prof. Kemeny leads players C. B. Richardson 1902 J. H. Hankinson 1903 L. G. Bissell 1904 and A. J. Pilgram 1902.
In Ingleside track racing on December 24 a four horse field contested the six furlong Handicap with Kenilworth favorite at 3 to 2. Sad Sam led from the start and held off a strong finish by Huachuca to win.
The recent weighing found the fifty six pound weight 1.5 ounces light and with a triangle handle exceeding sixteen inches. Records set at Celtic Park Long Island City and Star Athletic Club meets are void. The A A U will investigate potential fraud.
The storm moved from Minnesota to the lower lake region and into West Virginia with snow and rain. A broad cold wave covers the Western to Central regions with subnormal temperatures and offshore winds. Forecasts call for continued snow in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, with colder conditions and brisk to high winds through Friday across many states.
Mme Sembrich could not sing due to indisposition and Carmen replaced La Bohème. Don José was sung by Salignac in a public, earnest but flawed performance while Miss Marylli offered a competent Micaela. Journet portrayed Escamillo under Mancinelli’s conducting.
Mrs Osborn and Miss Norma Munro announce the theatre will close tomorrow night after a difficult period. They say all debts are paid and the losses will be borne by the managers who now seek a new lessee, possibly Charles B Dillingham for Frances Hodgson Burnett's children’s play.
Mary Shaw is announced to appear on Broadway likely at the Manhattan Theatre in Ibsen's Ghosts in January with possible future participation in The Woman of Arles by Daudet and Bizet. Alfred Hertz would conduct if revived. Emanuel Reichen and Charles H. Meltzer aided its earlier production.
Herman Perley musical director at the Casino and the American School of Opera faced a prank by theatre friends who swapped his vanished grand piano for a 49 cent toy piano placed in a box. Truckmen delivered the box to his apartment and hoisted it up the air shaft before he opened the package, expecting a real surprise.
Last night at the Garden Theatre Mr. E. S. Willard gave amiable Tom Pinch in a Dickens episode from Martin Chuzzlewit. A sparse crowd showed tears and smiles of appreciation as Barrett Roe’s Pecksniff appeared oily and odious. The cast also rendered other familiar roles capably. The performance will be repeated for the Christmas matinée with All for Her revived for Friday and Saturday.
The Allegheny County Board of Fire Underwriters orders a 25 percent rate increase on merchandise in brick stores and dwellings except those advanced last March. Judge Coxe rules the Tennessee policyholders lack standing in the Mutual Reserve Life suit over reincorporation. Missouri declines tax waiver on excess insurance for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and a special legislative measure may grant an exemption.
John Philip Sousa and a fifty member band sail yesterday on the American liner St. Louis bound for Southampton. The first concert is set for January 12 in Queen's Mall London followed by a royal audience with King Edward. The four month continental tour includes Emperor William and President Loubet with Estelle Liebling as soloist at all concerts.
Ida M Fuller, a dancer and near relative of Miss Loie Fuller, is the petitioner in suits against the Ninety and Nine managers at the Academy of Music to restrain a fire scene from being produced, claimed to be covered by letters patent. The NYT note corrected an incorrect attribution to Miss Loie Fuller.
An item lists guests at hotels including Hollan d Louis Lazard of Brussels W H Quilhot Amsterdam D E Mitchell Pittsburg and various others with captains presidents and ministers from U S Army Canada Ottawa Montreal Boston Cleveland San Diego and Washington in separate hotel entries.
A Christmas Eve crowd at Keith's fills two thirds of the floor as women outnumber men, while Gillette's musical dogs perform a pantomime and a lively chorus of familiar tunes. The act blends satire with canine sagacity and stage mischief in a brisk afternoon program.
The notice catalogs buyers and firms visiting or represented in multiple cities. It lists Pitts Kimball Company of Boston with R H Kimball notions and G W Little upholstery, Victoria Hotel, Stein Bloch Rochester, I Wiede Stein woolens at 718 Broadway Hotel Savoy, Mohr L Sons Savannah notions furniture at 28s Church Street, Muller Byrne Hat San Francisco EF G Sargent hats Astor House, Seelig Bruen Helena jewelry 22 Howard Street, St Denis Hotel Claflin Young Boston underwear Park Ave Hotel, Walker Lewis Millinery Kansas City J M Walker millinery Hoffman House Houston Henderson Boston J Bell furnishing goods Hoffman House.
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