Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-08
BoWDoIN's ATHLETIC YEAR.
Three OF the Four State Championships
for 1903 Captured.

Brunswick, Me-, Dec. 7.-Now that
the athletic contests between the four
Maine colleges for the year of 1908 are
over, it may prove interesting to many
people to know what Bowdoin's record
has been in these contests. 1t will be
seen from the following review that out
of the four contests, Bowdoin has won
the tennis tournament, the baseball
championship, and track championship
losing only the football championship.
Take first Bowdoin's record in tennis.
In the Maine Intercollegiate Tennis
tournament held at Brunswick last
spring, Bowdoin won not only the tour
nament but first and second places in
both singles and doubles. The honors
which Rowdoin won in tennis are not
confined to Maine. At the New Eng
land Intercollegiate tournament held at
Longwood. Mass, Libby and Dana Of
Bowdoin won first place in the doubles.
In tournament with Amherst college,
Bowdoin was defeated by a small num-
Der Of points.
I In reviewing the baseball situation it
will be found that out of nine games
played with the Maine colleges Bow
dom won seven, a record which has not
been made by any Maine college for
many years. Out of the state Bowdoin
did not make so good showing but in
the state she had team which was un-
questionably far superior to those of
the other Maine colleges
Rowdoin's championship athletic
teams do not stop with the baseball
team. In the Intercollegiate track
meet held at Brunswick, May 16, Bow
dom had no difficulty in running away
from her competitors and piling up
more points than the combined scores
of Maine, Bates and Colby. 1t might
be we'll to see what position BOwdoin
has held in former years in track
athletics. For the nine years that the
Maine college field days have been held
Bowdoin has won every track meet
excepting one and each of the eight by
q comfortable score. Not only has
| Bowdoin done this but she at present
holds the record in IL out of the IA
events contested for at these meets.
| The only athletic contest for the year
of 1903 in which Bowdoin did not win
the championship was football. For
the season it won four games and lost
five, and with the Maine colleges it won
one and lost two. 1t can be said that
the football team was defeated only by
better teams and not because it was
Of a poor quality.
| What will Bowdoin do next year in
athletics is being asked by many peo-
pie? The chances are that she will
make a shrOwing equally as good. In
tennis the prospect of turning out
team as strong as this years is some
what doubtful. OF the four men who
took part in the Maine Intercollegiate
| tournament only one is still in college.
There are several good tennis players
in college and they will make a strong
try for the team.
Bowdoin's prospects of winning the
| baseball and track championships are
of the brightest. OF course valuable
men We're lost by graduation last June
but there are strong men in college to
take their places. Havey, first base
and captain of the 1908 team, Bly,,
second base; Coffin, third base; Blanch-
ard, catcher; and Munroe, center field;
graduated last June and it will be ex-
| ceedingly hard to fill their places
There is, however, some very promising
material in the freshman class and it
is expected that winning team will be
| turned out James T. Cox is the cap
tain of the 1904 team.
| The track team will suffer a loss in
Grey, Dunlap, TOwne, Thompson, Nut
ter, captain of the 1903 teams and for
| four years the winner of the half mile
run. Ali these men were sure point
winners Bowdoin is lucky to have
| several second string men, and it is
hoped that they will fill these mems
| places. Several of the freshmen, who
have been prominent in prep school
athletics ought to do something next
spring William T. Rove will captain
the 1904 track team.
| The outlook in football is perhaps
more encouraging than in the other
branches of athletics in consideration
of the fact that the team will lose only
| two men by graduation. The two men
who will graduate are Beane, end; and
| Cox, tackle. With the men who will
| enter college next year Bowdoin ought
| to turn out team which will make a
much better showing than of late
years.