Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-12
SPORTING NOTES.

Terrace Queen. 2.O6. has stepped
mile ut Memphis in FL.
James Il. Connolly, the well-knOwn
writer of sea stories. will sail on the
Fleur de Lys i'm the ocean race for EN-
peror Williams cup.
Westfield, Mass, will resume racing
this year, and has selected the follow
ing dates: July A.. August Ia. August
2S-Sept l. Sept. 1922 Oct. 31-Nov. 10.
Dick Walsh. the former Harvard mile
runner. will wear the winged ~ of rhc
st. joseph Athletic association this
summer in all the amateur athletic
meets.
The New York Athletic Club spring
meet will take place on June 1. A fea-
ture will be a match relay race be-
tween the home club and Columbia
University.
The Roger Williams purse of $4,000.
for PIP trotters, to be trOtted over Mar
ragansett park i'm August. closed with
81 entries. All the early closing events
are well filled.
Ed. BenyOn thinks Dan r. about the
fastest PAGER in the world. He may be
given an opportunity to come into the
$4,000 Decentralization Boy race and
make it three-cornered.
james s. Mitchell, the veteran weight
tosser of the n. Y. A. c., will compete
in all the championships. this summer.
Mitchell has been in the game for %
years and has won over $50 first prizes.
Holcombe Ward. national tennis
champion. was beaten straight sets at
the Plainheld Country Club. Plainfie'd,
n. j.. Wednesday. by ex-Champion NJ.
D. Whitman. The score was 11-9, 10,
G-3.
Pa" Newell, the veteran captain of
the Williams track team, Williamstown.
Pa, is still at the college infirmary ana
will be unable to take part in the meet
with Dartmouth. saturday. He has
typhoid fever in a light form.
Jockey Milton Henry will ride for the
Canadian owner Joseph Seagram at the
! coming meeting at Toronto. This. too,
| in spite of the fact that Henry is under
| the ban in England. He has been riding
in the West through grace of West
ern Jocky Club license.
Frank Castleman. the Irish American
! A. c. hurdler. who will represent Col
gate University at the intercollegiate
games. is reported to be going like the
wiEd. Gas ought to have an easy
| thing in the low hurdles with Clapp of
| Yale and Cairns Of Cornell out of the
running. :"
Tom jenkins. Americas champion
wrestler. and Frank Gotch, former
holder of the title, have been matched
| .,l,
Of three falls, at catch-as-catch-can
style. The men will meet in Madison
Square Garden. New York. the latter
part of next week. probably May 20.
| -Four automobiles. containing ten
members of the Bay State Automobile
Association. baggage and fishing para
phernalia, left the headquarters of the
association in Boston, Thursday fore
noon. for run to Meredith, N. H,
where the automobiles ere to be the
guests of President Lewis Il. Speare Cor
weeks fishing.
The ArgOnaut Rowing Club of Toron-
| to. has accepted an invitation of SYRIA
cuse to row with her Varsity eight on
Lake Ckenka on June 10. The Argonaut
| Club has tried for many years to race
with Cornell. but without success. The
club will have an entry in every contest
of the Canadian Henley and the Domin-
ion Day regatta. If the eight makes a
good showing in these contest it will
take part in the national championship
of America.
The selling race war is still in fill
bloom. Tuesday, after Astronomer cap
tured the second race he was run up
l.,
f.. y. Leland. The colt is the property
of Dave Gideon and his race was Il
plain reversal of form. Last time out
he mad no speed and was beaten off