Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-25
C0NYS ATHLETIC TEAM.
Entire Change in Policy by the
Teams Managers.
Those Who Will Go to Waterviiie 10 Compete
in the State Meet.

The II young men who make up the |
hard at work on the driving park
grounds. training for the annual meet
of the Maine Interscholastc Athlete
Association. which is to be held in
Waterville. June 4. During other
years it has been the policy of the
school to select the members of the
team from the upper classes. In this
way new material has had to be de-
veloped each year. The result has been
that of late years Cony has not taken
the place of which the school is worthy,
although more than ordinary athletes
have been turned out.
When the season opened, this year.
the management found itself in 4 posi-
ton where there was fbut one man who
had experience i'll track athletics Sc
training, the management decided To
make change in policy, with the re
suit that all the athletes who have
been under the direction Of the trainer
are men taken from the lower classes
in the school. 1t is though that, by the
adoption of this plan, it will be possible
next year, to turn out better team.
and one that will continue to improve
as the seasons go by. for the reason
that the members Of the team viii
have had the benefit Of the trainer of
the previous year.
OF the students who make up the
team, this year. three are under Il
years of age. and only one has ever
been in competition with athletes from
out of town.
The team to be sent to WaterVille 3
now selected, and while the members
do not expect to carry off all the
nonors this year, there is a feeling IN
the school that another year will see
unusual work.
Harry r. Gross. the captain of the
team. is the only man who has had
good showing in the preliminary
bicycle races, but did not get a place
for the finals. He is to enter the bi-
cycle races again this year. and. being
in good form, is expected to make
good showing.
Barnard Capen, SO. is new man bur
has been doing good work. He is in
good form and is expected TO make a
good showing in the dashes and the
half mile run.
Harold Partridge, 90, is conceded to
be the best walker in the school even
though green man. At the athletic
meet held short time ago among the
4 m. l. s Since then he has been do
ing must better work. He is looked on
as good for a place in the finals.
Alton Wall. SO. has never been in the
intarscholastic meets and, in fact, this
is his first year in athletic sports of
this kind He will confine himself
wholly to the dashes and is doing work
that causes a pleasant sensation near
the managers seventh rib. Nearly two
weeks ago he was able to do the 100
yard dash in 1l12. Then it was on a
soft track Since that time he has
been doing still better work. He is
though to be sure of a place in the
finals.
Maurice Russell 90. while a man
who had never before this had gone
into athletics and had hardly seen
| athletic apparatus, enough to become
| intimately acquainted has, even with
the training afforded this year only,
| broken the school record of s feet in
! the pole vault. Nor is the pole vault
| the only event in which he has shown
up well. His strongest hold is consid-
cred to be with the hammer
Pierce in the half mile run has done
very satisfactory work to his trainers
| and his fellow students have great
| hopes of him. In the half mile run he
is considered the best man on the team.
Already he has brought his record
| down to go.
Ray Small, '9S. is another man who is
| entered in the half mile. AS an athlete
| he is comparatively new man anu
has known nothing of scientific work
until a short time ago.
The best man with the shot in the
school is thought to be Allan Clark.
All previous school records were laid
one side at the last school meet by his