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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1909
Page
34
Special to The Washington Post discusses the National League 168 game plan, Johnson opposing a longer schedule, and Herrmann’s views from Cincinnati. It covers post meeting positions, potential alignment with the American League, and assurances against a league split amid War era tensions.
Pacific Athletic Club manager Thomas McCarey announced a 45 round boxing match between Battling Nelson and Ad Wolgast to be held at Vernon Arena outside Los Angeles in February or March. Nelson will gain 10000 regardless of outcome, with both fighters pooling side bets and the date to be finalized.
Promoter Wade Hickard announces the Jeffries Johnson contest will be staged in Salt Lake City Utah on December 2 at the Salt Palace saucer track. Officials anticipate a 5200 crowd with seating from 50 cents to 9 dollars as city leaders pledge no interference.
Sporting Comment discusses proposed twelve month contracts for players to curb afterseason barnstorming. Connie Mack’s nine month season cited. critics warn such tours ruin teams and pennants. McAleer and Stone disputes noted. World Series timing and weather concerns raised. Johnson Burns fight remarks discussed with caution about pacing in title bouts.
San Francisco report details a colt Chester Krum winning the Oceanview handicap at Emeryville, with Turret, Miles and Lewiston among others in a crowded program. Buxton criticized for post misbehavior. Meltondate and other longshots also featured amid a day of surprises and close finishes.
The Ashster Brothers Auto and Supply Company ordered five Ford touring cars and one town car last week, to be used at Detroit and arriving soon. Luttrell Company delivered Packard cars and limousines to customers, while Wilson Company sold Woods electric brougham to Mr Randall of Bayles. Miller Brothers Auto and Supply Company gains a new manager for the automobile supply and a accessories department. Washington car tests and speed runs report a 48 horsepower four-cylinder model with potential for higher performance. Pred M Hoblitt is appointed supervisor of Alco agencies by the American Locomotive Company. A cross-country Hupmobile run from Devils Lake to Alberta covers 88 miles, with a 42-hour trip and 22 miles per gallon despite rough roads and cold weather. Reports from Minot ND describe a Hupmobile owner using his car daily through deep snow and subzero temperatures.
Dark developments unfold as Erxum forges to the front and wins going away. Upsets flourish with Oawald B. surprising Calhows by a 10 to 1 margin.
Jacksonville race notes Powers rides clever to wins on Evhon and Finto amid heavy backing. Morning markets show strong support for Powers mounts as crowds cheer the Christmas handicap prospects and a busy schedule after holidays. Other notable runs include realizations by Greenbrigge, Ballot Box, and Castlewood in multiple races with Kinship stakes and varying odds.
Yesterday at the Royal Rider tournament scores show Wolfe 258 and McClure 67 with Becketts 656 and Parker 2. The report covers multiple duckpin lanes, the Weathowt and Torupa Fin races, and racing crowds in Tampa with large bets and busy last races.
Today's racing entries list multiple six furlong selling races with detailed odds and participants. Rebel Queen is cited among contestants alongside Luculto, Hayne, Sea rade, Dewerich and others, in a tense card at Tacknonville.
Report describes association members proposing a top off to cover cinders between finish line and B Street on the track to reduce debris and tire damage. It mentions drivers like Freq Orphan and Buckshot, owner J Bennett, and turfmen like John E Madden amid plans from Detroit for next year’s blue ribbon meetings and Chamber of Commerce stake entries.
A jumble of names and terms appears in a weathered OCR page. Numerous personal names, places, and titles surface, including Harvys, Horace, Patay Eyebright, and various surnames. The fragmentary list suggests a historical record or directory snippet rather than a cohesive article.
Cincinnati club president Hergmann said the World Series will be played next year despite a proposed 168 game schedule. He believes a longer season won’t affect the World Series and that the American League can extend to 15 games to align endings. The East is assured the series will be played, even in sleet if needed.
Harvard defeats Yale 21-2 to 17-2 and Columbus beats Princeton 3-1 in an intercollegiate chess event with four players from Columbia Harvard Yale Princeton and Columbus. Harvard and Yale share even points after the match.
Moran says he favors Johnson in the anticipated heavyweight championship clash and hints at a preliminary bout with Batting Nelson to pave the way for a Johnson Jeffries meeting. Moran notes Jeffries has been out of top competition for years and questions his distance judgment.
In New York City at the Tombs court the Bath Tub victim Ocey Snead case moves forward as Mrs Caroline W Martin and Mrs Mary Snead face murder indictments. The sisters stand accused of dragging Snead into a tub of water and choking her, with further charges tying in Virginie Wardlaw. Documents found in Henry Street suggest a death by own action pact, including letters signed by Ocey Snead and power of attorney forms, turned over to New Jersey authorities.
Chicago station reports Amos Stagg proposes football rule changes to reduce deaths and injuries. Key ideas include banning mass pulls and hard body tackling, returning incomplete forward passes to the original spot, penalizing ball carriers who crawl, protecting receivers, and removing exhausted players from games. The proposals aim to shorten halves in preparatory high school play and encourage open, spectacular action.
Advices from the Empress of India report a severe gale striking Korea and Japan as it left the Orient. About 620 Korean fishing vessels were wrecked near Ginpo and Hameyaeng, with an estimated death toll over 2900. Dutch cruiser Nord Brabant faced a hurricane near Yokohama, breaking her main mast and disabling wireless.
Willam Abstein star of the world champions is to be returned to the minors after every major league club waived claim ten minor league clubs have bid for his services Pittsburg owners had backed his role in the world series and his retirement is widely noted Jack Flynn will join Pittsburg at first base after a $4000 deal with St Paul Also in brief boxing Paris sees Charlie Hitte vs Herbert Synott a fifteens round draw with Hitte leading early Harlem reporter notes a fatal horse runaway injuring Tracy Gorman in Harlem with a porter killed in the incident
Boston December 2 Judge Lowell of the United States circuit court ruled that Western Asiatics have mixed with Europeans over the past twenty five centuries making it impossible to determine eligibility under statutes excluding the yellow race. He added that Congress may amend statutes to specify who may be admitted. Until then the court will not deny citizenship to aliens on account of color.
A dated advertisement touts Ayers Sarsaparilla as a strong alcohol free tonic that boosts blood red cells and steadies nerves. It claims improved digestion and overall strength, urging trust in the "Best doctor" endorsed medicine.
Indianapolis announces a second will by George Rhogius leaving most of his 31 million estate to Elma Dare of Doddsworth, instead of 750000 to Indianapolis. The will, filed for probate, follows the first and arises amid rumors of a resort proprietorship and personal ties, with Rhogius’s family drawing scrutiny.
Boston announces plans for a tunnel under the city to link two terminal stations as engineers of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad work on preliminary routes affected by weather. Separate notes mention Nelson Wolgast facing a February 2 title defense with a $1,000 guarantee and a rumored $5,000 side bet.
New York police report Charles Adams known as Red led a swindler clique that extorted about 259000 over years. Arraigned before a US commissioner he claimed poverty then offered 11500 cash. Federal authorities say he forfeited 30000 bail after a 1890 Texas arrest. He is to spend Christmas in prison.
The blast from an overturned lamp in the hallway of Santana Cierbo’s home in Hilsville Pennsylvania today killed at least eight people and injured two others including Cierbo his wife and two daughters Frank Ambrosino Steve Renpele and Mike Caradiile among the boarders. The lamp reportedly fell from a shelf and burned as workers had left early or arrived late, trapping the occupants before they could escape.
William K. Crane, a New York lawyer, was arrested in Philadelphia as a fugitive from justice. Deane, who jumped a $700 bail, had previously forged a deed in a deceased relative’s name to obtain about 15 000. An appeal to New York’s supreme court failed, and Deane disappeared.
Nelson BC reports the death of Jona Kirkland son of the late Joan Kirkland, chief justice of Scotland, aged about three, on Hevelstexe road during health travel. body to be sent to New York and then Scotland. Also Ithaca notes Cornell Delta Upsilon House fire damages the three story masonry campus landmark, insured and valued at about 518,000.
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