Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-15
sowDols COLLEGE.


Tuesday, after the 10 days vacation over
| Easter. The students hoped to return 10
| find the base ball team on the diamond.
| the track men running and the tennis
| courts in condition to hold the annual
spring tournament in a week or two. tn
! lateness of the season has disappointed
| all these hopes. The base ball candidates
| under Captain Bacon returned to college
a week early in order 10 indulge In little
preliminary outdoor practice, but they
| found foot of ice upon the Whittier
Athletic Field and so were compelled To
| do all their practice in the cage. Men
| were Immediately put to work on the
| Athletic Field and the ice Is now fast
disappearing. Captain Bacon hopes to
get his men outdoors, the first of next
| week.
| The first game of the season will be-
4 played in Brunswick on Fast day, when
| a strong team composed of Brunswick
players will cross bats with BOwdoin'si
| representatives. The BowdOin team by
that date will be i'm good playing condi-
| ton. w. c. Sherman. the coach. VIII ar
rive, the first of next week. and will il
rect his attention particularly TO loOkns;
over the material AT hand and reducing
| the now large number of Varsity cand-
dates His special duty will be to de-
velop the batting ability of the team. NJ.
Sherman is particularly competent in this
branch Of the game. as VIII be seen by his
playing on such teams as Melrose AIN
| jteic Associat ton. Boston Athletic Asso-
citation and the Carriers OF Franklin. MI.
Shermans successor as the BoWdoin
coach after TWO or three weeks. VIII be
Mr. Fred W. WOodcock, the weli-knOHn
dartmouth and Brown player. VINO will
| remain with the team the greater part OF
| the season. Mr.. Woodcock's reputation
| In base ball circles IL so widely spread
that no comment is necessary; let II sur
Ace to say that after his experience on
the college teams of Dartmouth and
Brown and upon the Pistsburg team az
| h.a. . ha. a
OF the Bowdoln team with the support
I'd announcement OF the whole student
body
Canaan Godfrey has been greatly retard-
cd bv the late season. IL Is hardly 10 be
hoped that the track on The Whittier
Field will be in condition for active
training before 10 days or two weeks. In
!, he meantime the candidates for the team
IRE doing what they can in the gymna-
siam and the long distance runners can
be een each afternoon running abont the
wen-Sried paths of the campus. Harder
work dnd more severe training VIII be
necessary>i in order 10 get the men into
the best possible coud lion for the Wor-
cester meet, May 81. There Is every pros
pect OF sending a team 10 This meet
which will be one Of the best. II not the
best Bowdoin has ever had. The loss OF
Kendall '9S who has taken points FOR
Rowdotn for the last three years In both
high and low hurdles. viii be severely felt.
bnt the places o: the other H men VINO
graduated can be easily niled from the
material now In college. In the freshman
class are several men wac ought 10 DE
heard from before they graduate. even
II they do not take points this year.
Hunt in the dashes. T. o. Hamilton and
Edmund Hayes in the high jump, ANA
H. 7. Hunt In the broad jump.
DR. ". v. Richards Of Yale. who has
been secured as a coach for the track
team will come to Brunswick. April ~,
and remain till the Worcester meet "
former years the coach for the track
team has never devoted so much time to
his work as will DIR. Richards, this year.
Before they were in Brunswick but TWO
DAYS a week while this year DR.. Richards
will remain FOR the whole month previous
To the big meet of the year at Worcester.
where his father is professor Of matha-
MATES. While at college he made for
himself some wonderful records on me
track. For some time he held the world
record for the 2aD-yard dash. Besides be-
ing a track athlete. DIR. Richards has
won "A name for himself on the gridiron.
having played fullback on the Yale VAR
sity football team. He. comes 10 Bowdo.n
well known personally to many of the
students. as he coached me ,, to3 % pan
ward To by all with the greatest enthust-
assn and brightest hopes for successful
season.
branches of athletics that have received
severe setbacks by the unreasonable
wca Their The tennis courts are IN even
worse condition than the diamond or the
track. Men have been at work since the
opening of the term and ii Is hoped thar
in about 10 days the courts Will permit a
little playing. A college tournament VIII
he played as soon as possible and tn"
representatives of Bowdoin, the winners
of this tournament. will in all probability
engage in a dual tournament with the
University of Vermont at Burlington,
during the last week in May. The Maine
~, int iS he held
in Brunswick on the Bowdoin courts. on
June So. II Is expected that all four
Maine colleges will send representatives,
The college has decided to offer a new
course in advanced rhetoric and English
composition this term TO all who have
Mr. Harry Edwin Andrews of the class
of ~. has been engaged 10 take charge
of this new course. The object of the
course is to bring about more ease N
writing In this course short daily
themes are required of about 100 WORDS,
and more pretentious themes OF from 6o'
10 1900 words are required fortnightly
The text book TO be used is Wendeiis
Rhetoric which will be taken up in the
class. either in discussion or by lectures
from Mr.. Andrews.
The appreciation of this course by the
students IS shown by the large numbsr
who have decided to take 1t. 1t will be
curriculum of Bowdoin. 1t is to be hoped
that after so successful a trial this course
will be permanently offered during each
spring term.
The college is fortunate in securing so
able a man to take this chair as Mr.. An
drews. Mr.. Andrews after graduating
from Bowdon in "a. took course in
English at Harvard, where he saw in full
operation the system from which this
course is designed.
The scarlet fever scare which caused So
much excitement at Bowdoin, last term,
is now history. The efforts of the college
to prevent any spreading of the disease
were exceedingly commendable. All the
library books were recalled to do away
with all possible chance of contagion i'll
this way, and every other possible pre-
caution was taken. Mr. Roland E. Clark.
'01 who has had the only case of scarlet
fever in college, is fast recovering and
will soon be about his studies again.
Friends of Edward r. Godfrey of Bal
gOI. are confident that he can eclipse the
efforts of II. +. CochenS of the Harvard
Law School. who broke Godfrey's record
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