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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1908
Page
6
A long sports column reviews baseball league actions and scandals, cites proposed rule changes, umpire bribery charges, and club moves. It also discusses football coaching philosophy, a six day bicycle race, and international sports tensions including the Olympics and America's Cup.
Tom Longboat, the Canadian Indian runner, joined the Mohawk Athletic Club on their weekly six mile course in The Bronx. Despite rough going and slippers, the field averaged six minutes per mile. Joe Malone finished second by three fifths of a second, with Walter Nobes third and H Meyer fourth, in times around 34 and 36 minutes respectively.
Frank Brennan won the weekly Pastime Athletic Club run in Williamsbridge over a six and a half mile snow and mud course. He finished in 42 minutes 25 seconds, narrowly beating runner up R H Hess by three seconds among about thirty competitors.
Coroner Harburger announced he will introduce a city speed limit ordinance through Alderman Levine. The measure would cut eight mph to six mph in built up areas and twelve mph from fifteen mph in other districts. It also lowers cornering speed from four to two mph.
Middy Fitzhugh Green, basketball game injuree against Pennsylvania yesterday, had his collarbone fracture reduced at the Navy Hospital. Green is the football team manager.
The New York Yacht Club will host its annual meeting at the clubhouse this Thursday evening. The event highlights Julius Fleischmann’s new Ho-foot yacht built by Gas Engine and Power Company and Sesburs Company at Morris Heights, featuring triple six cylinder reversible engines and a speed claim. The same firm also builds a 4 T-foot tender for George J. Gould’s turbine yacht Atalanta.
Hints for golf solons at the USGA meeting discuss preferred changes to qualifier rounds and match play. Jerome Travers, the national champion, backs a one day eighteen hole test with sixty four advancing, followed by 36 hole matches. Garden City results illustrate how early leads translate into final outcomes. The piece also notes the Massachusetts Golf Association annual meeting in Boston with officer slate and invited dignitaries.
The Elizabeth club five tops the third week of the Athletic Bowling League with five wins and one loss, ahead of Newark Bar with four wins. New York Athletic, Columbia, Mortlake, and North End each have three wins. Newark Bay leads team averages at 932.3 while Baronne totals top at 1,019. Individual scores show Lemater of Jersey City at 25 across three games, Dwyer of Newark Bay at 22 for six, Nolte of Elizabeth at 200.2.
A committee of automobile manufacturers met to complete a brief for submission to the Ways and Means Committee in Washington. Attendees included H. B. Jor of Parchard Motor Car, A. L. Riker of the Locomobile Co, H. Parkhurst of Peerless, Benjamin Briscoe of Maxwell-Briscoe, Alfred Reeves of the American Motor Car Manufacturers Association, and E. P. Shalfant of the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. They argued tariff should protect American workers and urged proper classification of automobiles and parts, citing wage comparisons and invoking Republican tariff principles.
A snowy morning at the Speedway limited fast driving as the upper track froze and a crowd predicted to witness a food expert departed in a snowstorm. John Cornish rode Topsy amid a series of brushes with other drivers and many cup winners were listed by name with horses and owners including Fashion, Lucy, Susie G, and Princess Pique.
Fievrd McFarland, winner of the six day bicycle race, will start Longbeat and Derands in a marathon distance race at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night. The event begins at 9 o clock.
At the Gravesend Bay Yachting Association meeting held at the Imperial in Brooklyn the season’s twelve championship race winners were announced. Crescent owned by J B Donohue won the 27 foot class with Sue second. Soya owned by W A Barstow won the 2 foot class. Adyta won the second handicap division. Gunda owned by FS Noble won the 15 foot class. Mischief owned by J F Mitchell won the first handicap division. Slow Poke owned by Insley and Stringer won the X class. Mouse owned by G R Le Savange won the Gravesend knockabouts prize. Each winning boat owner will receive a silver shield emblematic of the championship.
Harris, the Negro runner, won the weekly open six mile cross-country race for the Mott Haven Athletic Club in The Bronx. He finished about fifty yards ahead of Joe Guerin of Trinity Athletic Club in Brooklyn as the course stood in near ankle-deep mud. F Foran of Mott Haven led early but Harris took the lead by the half-mile and never relinquished it.
The weekly bond report lists total sales at 34,407,000 dollars with exclusive interest data. Investors track performance across issues and maturities as dealers report figures for the period.
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