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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1916
Page
14
Readouts report men and women’s finals at Sixth Street club with local players advancing to crown singles champions. Reclamations, league notes, and a Fort Hunt game cancellation finish a busy sports page.
A fragmented sports section item references a treasury and commerce game score, mentions players and coaches, and notes a signing by Vice President McR as well as a Cleveland team context. It hints at a round of baseball or basketball action with limited readable details and several garbled fragments.
Cavernous list of entries across multiple races with purses and conditions. Notable names include Purae maidens and Gelding/Colt fields for 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, and up, plus trophies and stakes like the Cincinnati Trophy and Tremint Stakes. Weather is clear, track conditions favorable for various sprints and handicaps with numerous horses and owners listed.
Horse racing results list multiple races with purses, entries, and outcomes. Notable winners include Langden, Altamala, and Miss Annie among others, with detailed payouts like straight bets and place show ahead across two year olds to four year olds and up. The page records times, odds, and running order for a crowded card featuring many named horses, breeders, and handlers.
Baseball box score style report lists players and positions for War Navy team led by Howth Brown as Tavir of Yometh ABIL G 3210 B21 Bx. Multiple names appear with scores, hits, and fielding notes. notes on pitching, doubles, stolen bases, and double plays indicate a detailed inning by inning summary from the Colored Departmental League game.
Arthur Younger of the University of Washington learns of an invitation from Jon H Foster secretary of the New York Nationals for the Western eleven to play on the Polo grounds in December. Foster suggests Washington face Dartmouth or another strong eastern eleven with all travel expenses paid. Washington aims to present the invitation to the faculty committee on athletics.
A Morning Telegraph and Cincinnati paper compiled a dense catalog of horses such as Should Rage Well, Smuggler, Lady Splrttuetle, York Lad, and many others. The items appear as a roster of entries including vendors, stables, and related names, with no clear narrative or race result.
Buffalo headline reports San Francisco player T-van Dyke Johns defeats Lester Gilbert of Buffalo 16-86-1, 086-4 to claim the Great Lakes tennis title. Vanderbilt Ward of Rye withdraws from the challenge round. Miss Molla Bjurstedt of Norway faces Mrs Bickle of Toronto in the final women’s singles round with a possible Bjurstedt-Rotch challenge.
Washington policeman Mike Thaine will be among the principals in the main event before the American Athletic Association in Baltimore at the Oriole grounds this afternoon. The first bout is a ten rounder with Uranne and Herman Miller of Baltimore scheduled for 30 dollars.
British forces pressed a renewed offensive on the Western Front amid heavy rain and saturated trenches. German assaults near Thiaumont and Helloy were repulsed by French counterattacks as fighting raged along the Somme and Meuse sectors, with aerial activity reported near Valenciennes and Rouziere.
New York July 7 The Russo Japanese treaty strengthens Japan by pooling interests in the Far East and reducing frontier troop needs It is seen as a curb on German influence and a means to preserve peace in the region The accord reportedly aims to check German aggrandizement in China and considers American financial participation in a Chinese loan The document is in Japanese and French and set for ten years with a third nation concerted action clause The Osaka Mainichi notes America’s interests remain unaffected by the pact.
Teachers and others in a campaign for naturalized citizen instruction gather for a citizenship congress called by the bureau of naturalization of the Department of Labor. The event runs through the week with hundreds of teachers in New York for the National Education Association also expected. President Wilson accepted an invitation to address the congress on Thursday.
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