Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-17
SPORTING NOTES.

The Irish American A. A. will hald
an athletic meeting at Celtic Park,
New York, May 20.
Georgetown University has abolished
the niiG-week contests on the grdiron
for next falls football schedule.
Two invitation golf tournaments
are announced by the Oakley County
club, Il mixed fOurSOme. May 20 and a
handicap stroke competition. June 3.
Boston Herald: The Bowdcin College
team should be figured on when the
wise ones" are picking the probable
winner Of the New England intercolle-
cester, Saturday.
The National stallion race is the
great event at Belmont Park, this
week. 1t is to be at five furlOngS,
straight, for 2-year-Olds. with Il prize
amounting to about $4,000 gross and
VIII be run on Saturday.
The Massachusetts Interscholastic
Canoe Racing Association will hold its
championship race on the Mystic lake,
Saturday. June II. The race will fin
ish on the MedfOrd side and will be a
half-mile. The canoes used must be
of canvas.
Il is expected that the Atlantic. En-
dymion. Ailsa. Hildegrade and Ham,
burg of the fleet which was to start,
Tuesday, in the race across the ocean
for Emperor Williams cup will con-
test in the Dover-H elgOland race on
the other side.
rEn int lot hoc of hall r1l1pc
committee will hold its first meeting
at Philadelphia, May 26. The object of
the meeting is to take college basket
ball completely out of the hands of the
A. A. L.. making it Il separate body,
as iii track athletics.
Juvenal, the Philadelphia sculler,
wants a special race with Titus at the
Harlem regatta on Memorial day, but
the regatta committee consider that
these two scullerS better enter in the
race for senior singles. Frank Wesley
and Fuessel will be in the same event.
The executive committee of the Ma
Wy Athletic Association of Annapolis,
Nd, have selected the name Louis c.
Farley of Rove. Mass. to be engraved
on the Thompson trophy cup as the
nilShipman of the late first class
whose personal influence in all branch
es of athletics was the greatest.
J. W. Flack of Milwaukee, has Of
fered to put up $4,000 in a thrce-cor-
nered sweepstakes with the already
matched PAGERS. Audubon Boy, 2.034
and ticstatic. 2.O5H, his entry to be
Hazel Patch, 205h. STIMULATING, how
ever. that the event be paced at the
| Wisconsin State Fair, with an added
$1,000 from the association.
NJ w. Sheppard of the Brown Prep.
school Of Philadelphia, who was pro-
tested at the Yale interschoiastic
| meet. proved himself the fastest school
boy that has ever run mile. At the
Cornell interscholastic games held at
Ithaca, n. Y. Saturday. he ran the dis
lance in As 20, breaking the worlds
schoolboy record by % seconds.
The college track and field meet for
| the annual championship of the Inter
| collegiate Association of Amateur Ath-
| lctes of America, which is to be deci1-
| ed at Franklin Field, Philadelphia
May 26 and 81. promises some interest
| ing sport. -Four hundred entries have
already been received. Yale. Cornell
and Pennsylvania have very good
teams ana should make a pretty three
/ cOrnered fight.
Arrangements for the Cornell-Har-
ward Varsity boat race. to be held on
| the Charles river. May u. are fast be-
| ing completed at Cambridge, Mass.
Mr.. Meikleman will be referee and G.
+. Schweppe. chairman of the regatta
| committee. as in the Yale-Harvard re-
| satta in June. The Charles river will
| be closed for navigation on the after
| noon of May -. and the crews will
be followed only by the boats of the
referees and the press.
| The Catholic Summer School OF
America will begin it's fourteenth all
nual session at Cliff Haven. on Lake
| ChanIplain. on July 5, and will con-
tnue until September s. In this
period there also will be n four week S
meeting of the Summer Institute for
| Teachers. under the direction Of the
| New York State Department of Edu-
cation. A feature this year will be
weekly competitions in athletic sports
arranged by James T.. Sullivan. of the
Amateur Athletic Union.
| The dual field and track meet which
was to be held at Annapolis. Md
Saturday, between the midshipmer
and Pennsylvania State College has
been cancelled at the request of the
latter. A dual meet has been sched-
uled for the same date between the
rlidshipmen and a team from Lehisf
University. The institutions have
never met at this branch of sport or in
any branch Cor some Years. dis
| agreement in 4 football game some
seasons ago strainiEg relations some
what.