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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1914
Page
6
The court favors strong surety bonds and readily accepts the American Surety Company's bond due to its 30 year record of prompt payment and undisputed strength, guiding lawyers to tender this bond whenever surety is required.
Lord Wimborne leads the British polo invasion arriving on the Cunard Carmania with Major Barrett Capt. Cheape Capt. Tomkinson and John Traill among players to coach and compete against the American quartet. Practice to begin at Piping Rock with a cautious forecast of a hard fought series and a fair break of luck.
Lord Wimborne leading five British players to meet American challenge with Devereux Milburn hailed as the world’s greatest polo player. He notes lighter British team, possible practice games, and mounting advantages, while financing and travel realities temper expectations amid international competition.
The Polo Association announces a week of June events at Meadow Brook and other clubs with potential date changes if a third game is needed for the International Polo Cup. Be aware of entry deadlines and handicaps across Meadow Brook Rockaway Hunting Club Smithtown and Rockaway venues.
Racing shifts from Belmont Park to Piping Rock Association Locust Valley for two days Wednesday and Saturday. Steeplechases including the Whitney Memorial highlight the meeting with top jumpers like Penobscot Peregrine Pickle and Marcellinus. Flat racing features the Piping Rock Subscription Serial Handicap, run for yearlings turned mature horses from a common fund.
The program lists the first race a five furlong straight maiden for two-year-olds with weights headed by Gloarming Jester and Trojan at 110 pounds. The field includes Rhine Maiden Sentiment The Mole Comely and White Metal all at 107 pounds.
The eighteen hole blind medal play handicap marks the start of the season at Lawrence Park Country Club. Alec Finlay presides as pro and greenkeeper. G F Hawkins and Mrs E H B Watson lead the Men’s and Women’s Golf Committees.
Ithaca May 31 Cornell fans welcomed back the track team that won the intercollegiate meet at Cambridge and captured the trophy. Coach Jack Moakley and Capt. Shelton led the procession as 36 athletes rode a long float through a crimson and white parade. Moakley received a five minute ovation and the team credited the undergraduate body, winter training, and squad determination for the win.
At Knollwood Country Club in White Plains EB S Wilcox takes the thirty six hole medal play handicap with a net 147, five strokes ahead of E K Lechain. Carroll Cup finals see D T Fairchild defeat F M Wilson 7 up and 5 to play, earning two trophy legs. Mixed foursomes scheduled for next Sunday as results list multiple players and scores.
The Walkers Club of America used a clear day to cover a fifteen mile circuit starting at Long Island Plaza. About thirty members took part along Jackson Avenue Flushing Flushing Avenue Bowery Bay Road and back, finishing in order Hocking McNeil Hickey Gage Hefferman Trefry Sr. Tress Jr. Fathers Schwartz Baumgarten Stritch Morrell Nichols and Han Somah. No times were recorded as previous days had included a West Point walk.
Columbia baseball aims to even series with Syracuse after their one-run win over the Morningside Heights collegians. The special afternoon matchup on South Field is part of commencement week activities. Eddie Shea, who has long bested Pennsylvania, may start for Columbia.
Five yachts started from New Rochelle to Lloyds Harbor in moonlight last Friday midnight and returned yesterday afternoon. The first to finish, G P Y Granbergs Okee, Zarah owned by H Doscher was second overall. M Fr Kattenhorns Surprise finished at 9 30 and won on time allowance. Two boats required power to reach the line. Prize offered by New Rochelle and Lloyds Harbor Yacht Clubs.
Open air field day for inmates of Auburn Prison marked the first large scale freedom granted in New York. The south wing defeated the north by seven to two in nine events, winning a silver cup. 1,400 men marched to the yard for races, games, and a tug of war amid careful health precautions.
A 10-year-old boy named John Menzies fell through a trap door into a subway excavation on Lexington Avenue between 125th and 126th Streets. He was rescued sixty five feet below street level by Patrolman McDermott and laborers and taken to Harlem Hospital with a fractured skull and internal injuries likely fatal.
Memorial services were held by the Fire Department at St Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue and Fifty-first Street. Firemen marched from Broad way and Fifty-eighth Street led by the department band. Rev William J Miar tin officiated with six clergymen. Rev Vincent de Paul MecGean protected the sermon and read the names of thirty six firefighters who died last year.
Giuseppe Merci confessed to shooting his wife Marie Merci in jealous rage after a quarrel at their home on What Avenue November 25 1912. He was tracked by her brother Michael Yorski aided by Detective William Cruise and Garfield officers who found Merci in a Farnum Avenue pool room using aliases Michael Morris and Dominick Gallo.
Two women, Mrs. Evelyn Aston and Mrs. Carrie Lathrop, died after a gasoline explosion in a hotel kitchen in Oneonta, New York. Albert S Wright, near the kitchen, caused the blast while transferring gasoline. six others were injured, with Wright, George Smith, and Benjamin Voorhees among the most seriously burned.
After the metropolitan women's championship, district players prepare for the Eastern Championship at Greenwich Country Club this morning. Following it, tri city Griscom Cup matches will feature Lilian Hyde leading the metropolitan team with Marton Pollins and Georgianna Bishop as members. Concurrent entries for the New Jersey State Championship near Morrin County Golf Club close tonight with secretary William Watson at 6.
The United States Football Association held its annual meeting yesterday electing officers led by President Dean Manning of New York and Vice Presidents Joou A. Ferniey New Bedford and Peter J. Peel Calgary. William D. Love of Pawtucket was Third Vice President with Archibald Birge of Chicago as Treasurer and Thomas W. Cahill of Newark as Secretary. The National Soccer Championship Trophy was awarded to the Brooklyn Field Club with medals to the Brooklyn Celtic Field Club as runner-up.
The Shoestring Bill, aka Joseph Schwartz, also known as William Lewis and Will iam Wall, clarifies he is alive and in poor health. He denies rumors of wealth or property and notes a thirty year Wall Street career selling shoestrings and trading in ancient and second hand bats. He asks for retraction of false portrayals of wealth and illness.
Joseph Cohen, delegate for the Brotherhood Welfare Association, says President Wilson refused to attend a conference with Coxey’s army in Washington. Cohen, a self described hoboe and L W W member, rode in a baggage car to reach Washington but was not detected. an associate was arrested in Aberdeen Delaware. The group complains the White House phone note said the President was too busy to receive them.
A cigarette tossed from an upper floor ignited an awning at John S. Melcher’s home, a lawyer and Union League Club member. Servants raised a bucket brigade and extinguished the blaze before fire crews arrived, amid gathered churchgoers and bustle outside St. Patrick's Cathedral. The building is five stories with occupied upper floors.
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