Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-18
B0WD0IN ATHLETES
Confident Of Breaking All their
Records this Year.
New $4,000 Athletic Field Will Give
Great Impetus to Sports.
Ball Team. Tennis Players and Other Experts
All Showing Up Finely.

Brunswick. May 17.-(SpeciaD.--
Spring athletics at Bowdoin are now
at their height, and in all branches un-
usual interest is being shown and I'M
usually good work being done Hard
study all the time is impossible on these
days. and Bowdoin boys have no diff
Guilty in filling in their spare time. The
standard of Bowdon in athletics,
already a proud one, is being steadily
raised and this year promises to be a
record breaker The building of the
$4,000 athletic field marks a new era
here. The entire work will not be com
pleted until summer or fall. The
stretch is completed. however. and is
being used regularly. 1t is a magnili-
cent cinder track. 20 feet wide About
half the necessary money has been
subscribed by alumni and the rest is
confidently expected.
The good work of the base ball team
is proving highly satisfactory to the
college and its friends. 1t is the best
nine that has represented Bowdoin for
several years, and at the bat is doubt
| less the strongest team the college ever
had. Captain Hull and his men are
determined to win the pennant of the
Maine College League, which BoWdoin
has not won since so At the present
standing of the league series. Bowdoin
has played three games winning all
| three. OF the remaining three games.
two are to be played on the Brunswick
/ delta. Outside the league. Bowdoin has
beaten Andover. Dartmouth and Bos-
| ton college, and expects victory over
| Exeter here, Wednesday.
In tennis unusual interest is being
manifested and the dozen clay courts
| on the campus are all occupied every
afternoon. The annual tournament is
now in progress and will be completed
early this week. Last years cham
pions, Dana in singles. and Dana and
| FogS in doubles. are still in college, and
| it is likely they will retain their lau-
rels. The winners of the tournament
will represent Bowdoin at the Maine
college tournament in Portland, the
first week in June. and will make up a
worthy team To retain for BoWdoin The
honors it has almost continuously held
in this branch of athletics. The col
legc tournament had over 40 entries in
SliitsitS anu 10 Ill utupltS.
Not only in base bail and tennis but
also most of all in field and track
sports. Bowdoin stock is very high this
spring. The meeting of the New Eng
land Intercollegiate Association will be
held at Worcester, Mass, next Satur-
day. and Il colleges will be represented
Last year Bowdoin captured 10 points
and sixth place. and there is every
prospect of even better work this year
Garcelon of Harvard, has been doing
fine work as trainer. and the candidates
for the team are numerous and enthu-
siastic. The team is not yet fully
picked. but probably about dozen
men will be taken to Worcester Howe.
80. the crack hurdler. is captain, and
Morse, '97. manager of the team.
Saturday. a sort of informal field day
of trial contests was held. The field
events We're held on the delta in the
morning and in the afternoon the track
events were run off on the Topsham
race course. except the 100-yards dash.
which took place on the completed
stretch of the new cinder track.
Following were the results of the
field events: Pole vault. Bates. 90,
Smith, SO, and Minott, '9S. all tied at
8 feet, s inches. In the last put. God
frey, SO. won first place with 50 fee.
inches, and then in exhibition put the
16-pound sphere SO feet. 6 inches. Bates,
$50, won second, and White, '97. third
In the running high jump. Borden. NJ
s., won first place at 5 feet. inches
Smith, SO, being second, and French.
'97. third. In throwing the 16-pound
hammer. Bates, '96. won first place with
100 feet. s inches. French '97, was sec
Ond with 80 feet, 2 inches. and Godfrey,
'99. was third. In the running broad
jump. Mcmillan. 81, won first place
with 10 feet, inches; Stearns, 81, and
White. 81. winning second and third. |
The 100-yards dash was won by Nc
MILAN, 81 in 10 3-5 seconds. Stetson, |
49, being second, and Kyes, 80, third |
In the afternoon. on the Topsham
track. the track events We're run off, |
the results being very satisfactory. In
the mile run. first place was won by |
Sinllingson, '99, in minutes, 81 sec |
onds, Edwards. '94, being second and
Bass, 90, third. Kendall, 9S. won the |
half-mile run in 2.1O. breaking the col
lege record. Behind him came fine
men, Bisbee, '9S. Clark, 49, II. f. Mars
ton, 80, l.. l.. Cleaves. '99, and Wiggin,
'9S. in the order named, all faster than
22O The quartermile was also won
by Kendall, in 50 2-5 seconds. An
drews, SO, ran this distance in Sc sec
onds, Kyes 90, in Sc As seconds, and
Hadlock '99, in 81 As seconds. In the
go yards dash, Andrews. SO, covered
the distance in "a seconds, Stetson, '9S,
in "a Is seconds, and r. l.. Marston,
80. in "a 3-5 seconds. Stearns, 81 Bow
doin's foot ball captain and bicycle
crack, went a handsome two-mile trial
on his wheel in minutes "a seconds,
which is considerably better than the
New England college record. Petten-
gill, '9S. walked a trial half-mile in }
minutes, AZ seconds. One or two of the
events were put over to be run, Mon
day afternoon.
Bowdoin has some men who will bear
watching at the Worcester meet of the
New England colleges, and their friends
are confident that an extensive cele-
bration will be in order that evening, I
on old Rowdoin's campus. AS to the
field meet of the Maine colleges at Wa
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