Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-08
. Sports in General.

Sports in General.
The running broad jump mark of A. c.
kraentZlein, "A feet Az inches, has not
been approached this year.
Edward Hanlan Ten Eyck is out of a
JOB as rowing coach, having finished
! at the Philadelphia Barge Club.
The old cup defender Vigilant is being
| put in shape for racing again. She is
as good as ever in hull construction.
Bob FitZssimmons is canvassing the
New York race tracks with view to
getting contracts for expert black
smithing.
james Johnson, the famous quarter
back of the Carlisle Indian football
team. will not return to Carlisle, but
will enter Harvard this fall.
A three-minute man, Koeppe by
| name. won the Chicago road race, do
! ing the twenty-five miles in 1:O9:5S.
| There We're fifty-two entries and forty
| one starters.
Warren f. Schutt, 1905, has been
| elected captain of the Cornell track
| team for next year. Schutt is the
holder of the intercollegiate record for
| the tWo-milc run.
George Le;,nder, of Chicago, will sail
for Europe on June II for an invasion
of the foreign cycle tracks. He will do
all his riding behind the motor-pacing
| machine.
| The fifth annual grand American
| handicap target tournament will be
| held this year on the grounds of the
indianapolis Gun Club, at indianapolis,
Ind, June u to "a, inclusive.
| Fred Titus, the bicycle rider, made
] famous by his winning of the great
| Quill $1,000 handicap at Manhattan
Beach, and who retired from bicycle
racing for stage life, has decided to
enter the automobile field.
| Coach jeremiah Delaney, of the
Northwestern University track team,
has signed a contract as assistant
coach of the university football team
next fall. He will cooperate with Head
| Coach Mccormack in the work of train
ing the men.
The Yale and Harvard track teams
| have broken training for the present,
| and will not resume their grind until
June Is. when they will begin prepara-
| ton for the games with oxford and
| Cambridge, scheduled to take place i'll
London July u.
A. John Standing, Jr., of the class of
| 1905, of Dickinson College, and Phineas
Norris of the same class, were elected
captains of the Dickinson College relay
and track teams, respectively. They
| succeed Capt. Belts, who has held those
| positions for the past two years.
rifle shot, who was known as "Old
Reliable" died in New Paltz last week
He was a member and captain of
several American rifle teams which
| competed abroad. In 1876 he was a
member of the team which won the
international match with the Irish team
in contest near Dublin.
The stewards of the American
Regatta Association announce that
| they will not hold next years regatta
OH Memorial Day on account of the
conflict with the Harlem regatta, but
! that either the Saturday before or the
Saturday after will be taken. The
stewards from Yale. Harvard, and
Columbia have pledged themselves to
have crews from their colleges entered
| next year.
The Yale baseball team has received
an invitation to play the Harvard nine
at the st. Louis Exposition during the
| week of July 4. Yale has not Yet
learned how Harvard regards the in
vitation, which comes from the EXPOSE
ton managers. The Ellis regard the In
vitation favorably, but have not yet
taken any official action. Yale Will
.JAI
Louis on July /, in her military COM
pany, which will go to the exposition
under Capt Smoke, U. S. A., to take
part in the competitive drills.
f. T. Clapp, captain of the victorious
| Yale track team, has returned to New
, Haven from the intercollegiate meet in
Philadelphia, Capt. CIapp is on clutches
and suffering from a badly torn tendon
! in his left leg. 1t will be from two to
three weeks before he will be able to
walk without clutches. His injury is
certain to affect his running in Eng
land in July in the international meet
He expects to be able to take part in
the meet, but is not likely to be able to
do much training between now and the
, departure of the Yale team.
The Carlisle Indian football schedule
has been made public, as follows:
September II, Lebanon Valley College,
at Carlisle; September Il, Franklin and
! Marshall, at Carlisle; September a.
Albright, at Carlisle; September 49,
open, at Carlisle; October /, Gettysburg,
at Carlisle; October s, Bucknell at
/ Williamsport; October Is, open, at
Carlisle; October %, Harvard, at Cam
bridge; October %. University of