Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-03
SPORTING NOTES.

Frank GOtch will Dr at the rinGSii'-
when Hackanschniidt and Jenkins
wrcs,Io in Madison Square Garden. next
| Thursday night. to chall ange the win
ner.
Bernard Nichols. the professional!
golfer. well-known in Boston. made II
new record for the Van c"rtlandt Park
links. Saturday. covering the course in
| ~ strokes.
Martha Wilkes, 2.G2. now 90 years
old. is one to foal to Jay Bird. 213A.
now q years old. If Prof. Redfield's old
| age philosophy is good the produce. if
| it comes and lives. should be world
| beater.
Maynard defeated Presley $50 to 1O6
in the Class c billiard game at the Hub
rooms, last night. Maynard averaged
| 32-59 and Pressey ! SO Maynard's
high run was II and Pressey's Is. To-
night Ashe will play Smith.
Chase who has been pulling No. 5 in
the Yale Varsity boat. has had to quit
| rowing on account of illness and may
not be able to pull again this season.
He hes had hard luck in his ambition
TO be Varsity oar. for ne was taken
Out VI the Bcdt JUS tilS ClcN
left for New London. last year. Kineon.
he football player. has taken his place.
Martin Mullen, the first national anna
teur billiard champion III Class A, play
ed a sensational 14-inch balk-line game
of billiards ut Maurice Days, Satur-
day afternoon. In a match against Dr..
L. L. Mial, 300 points, he made one run
of 2,3 carroms. and finished the string
of 800 points with an average better
than 60. In another match with j. {.
Lewis he made run of 14S, and aver
aged nearly As.
There was no meeting of the intercol-
legiate football rules committee in Phil
adelphia. Saturday night, as Bob Wrenn
and Walter Camp, delegates from Har-
ward and Yale. could not attend. 1t is
probable that the meeting will be held
in the came city at the time of the in
tercollegiata track championship. on
May 26 and p. A A. Stagg. the West
ern members of the committee. is said
to favor allowing the forward pass.
The fact that Beals Wright is at Nor
folk. Va. with MOlcombe Ward and w
A. Larned for fortnignt's practice on
the tennis courts of the Norfolk Coun-
try Club. would set AT naught the
stories that he is not to be a member
of the American tennis team that will
compete abroad in the Davis cup
matches. 1t looks like Ward and Larned
on singles and Ward and Wright in
doubles. with w. ]. Clothier as extra
man.
the great Allentown Fair offers sos
900 this season in purses and premiums.
and four $1,000 early closing stake races
are now calling for entries, as the last
day for entering is Monday. May /. The
classes are for 2.11 and ga trotters and
III and 2.25 PAGERS. The fair opens on
Sept. 10 and all horsamen know it is
one of the great events of the fall sea-
son. The Allentown Fair is noted as the
horsemen's carnival meeting. H. b.
Shall of Allentown. is secretary
Allison V. Armour received a cable
dispatch from G. l.. F.. Robinson. of the
American committee of the Imperial
Yacht Club. of Kiel. Germany. who is
now in London. saying that the English
committee of that club had decided to |
place n stakebOat at the finish line of |
the transatlantic yacht race at tn, |
Lizard. The stakeboat will remain at |
the line until the winners Of the four |
prizes have crossed the lire. In the alb |
sence of a stakeboat the finish line was
to have been a line north and south |
through the lighthouse.
FRANK Gotten. considered by many as
even greater wrestler than Tom Jen-
ans spoke recently before gathering
III somebody's at Buffalo. The WELL
known grapnler urged his hearers to
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II they desired to excel in feats of en-
iurahce and strength. Here are the