Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-30
SPORTING NOTES.

The National Association of ANA
teur Billiard Players has decided to
hold the next tournament in Chicago
Members of the Winchester Gun
Club of Boston, have completed ar
| rangements for the annual shoot of the
| club, to be held Memorial day. The
entry list, this year, is larger than ever
before.
Five hundred and twenty horses were
sold at the recent Fasig-TiptOn sale in
Readville, Mass. There were no sensa-
| tional prices, but a lot of good road
and matinee horses changed owners at
| the ruling market prices.
Thomas Hynes of Galway sailed for
| New York on the steamship Oceanic.
| which left Queenstown, Thursday.
Hynts is the winner of the six-mile and
| other championships in Ireland. ana
ran second in the international cross
country meet TO Albridge, the English
| champion. He is 4 member Of the Gal
way Harriers
| Freeman Bracket HaZen, 'O6, OF
Manchester, was unanimously elected
| captain of the Dartmouth track team,
| for the coming year. at meeting in
| Hanover. n. II. HaZen is one of the
best athletes in yarmouth. holding the
| college record in the pole vault and is
also one of the foremost basketball
| and football players at the college.
AL Livingston and Dan Egan, fight
promoters. nave completed arrange
| ments for a battle to finish between
Jack Root and Marvin Hart, to take
place at Reno. New. July 2. Articles
| of agreement were drawn up, Saturday,
and the promoters telegraphed to Hart
! in Louisville and Root in Chicago. A
forfeit of 800 has been posted by the
promoters.
Edouard FOurnaill, one of the worlds
greatest billiard players. recently died
at his home in France. Fournaill was
rated with Schaefer, Slosson, Sutton.
Cure and others, the foremost players
that we have in the United States, to-
day. He made several visits to this
country and always succeeded in
wrestling the 1aurels from the best
American billiardists.
Pugilist Kid. Mccoy is going to
marry Lillian Earl Ellis. widow of the
late Edward c. Ellis and possessOr of
4 fortune estimated at between $5,0OO,-
600 and $1,000, 600 1.-The date has not yet
been set for our wedding" said Mrs.
Ellis, Saturday. to a reporter in the
presence of "Kid%~McCoy i'm her apart
ment in the hotel Dunlop. 149 West 44th
street. I'VE are very happy. but our
plans have not been settled"
In the tennis tournament for the
championship of Massachusetts in
doubles to be held at the Brae-Burn
Country Club. Boston. May 80, and fol-
lowing dates. Seaver and Pier, the pres
cnt State champions and the three time
winners and now the owners of the
challenge cups, have decided to play
through the tournament from the be-
ginning, instead of playing the winners
Of the all-cOmers, as they are entitled
to do.
Battling Nelson. through his man.
ager. Billy Nolan, received word. Sat
urday. from San Francisco that his
fight with Jimmy Britt has been set
for the last week in July. Nolan i'm
mediateiy replied that the date was en-
| tirely satisfactory and that Nelson will
start for the coast Immediately after
he has fulfilled his contracts for match
es in Philadelphia AMI Baltimore and
concluded theatrical engagement in
Chicago.
The yachting season opened in the
Boston bay, Saturday, with the first of
a series of II races given jointly by the
Boston Yacht Club and the Point AL
lerton associates. The races were for
1S-footers. to be raced in two classes,
knockabOuts and sloops. Only one en-
try showed up for the latter class and
as a result the race was postponed. In
the knockabout class four boats were
entered. the Dorchen. owned by A. w.
Flniay OF Boston, winning, and the
Miss Little. owned by B. s. Fenner of
Charlestown. being good second.