Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-22
SPORTING NOTES.

IN" lIlTIl ScnODI cotnlnlltcc ot NV
Lewiston school board has voted to
recommend the adjustment Of foot
ball and basketball in that school. The
question will be acted on April by
the full board.
At special meeting of the faculty
council drastic measures were adopted
against Dr. Henry l.. Williams. for five
years director of athletics at Minnesota.
As a result the famous coach will have
his yearly salary reduced $1,000, making it
only 500.
The Automobile Club Of America has
appointed clerk to devote his entire
time to preparing and distributing infOr
nation concerning runs and tours, such
as routes. hotels. repair stations. freight
rates. licenses and registrations, and all
data for touring both in this country and
Europe.
The fourth annual regatta of the
American Rowing Association will be
held this year on the Schuylkill river at
Philadelphia Saturday. May 26. All
races arc to be one mile $50 yards
straightaway. Under the new rule
adopted by the stewards any crew not
going through its proper lanes will be
disqualified absolutely.
Announcement has been made Of an in
tcrnational wrestling championship tour
ncy for heavyweights, to be held at Mon
treal, Canada. for four days. beginning
April 1. The affair is to be given by the
Canadian Athletic Club, and $500 in
prizes, to be divided among the first
citv1,t yrii,n ic riff ,f,.in al,
April with George Kennedy. $50 Lccau-
cI:ctiere street. Montreal. Canada.
The last appearance Of the team Of
athletes that is TO represent the United
States in the Olympic games at Athens
during April and May will be at the
81 ring games of the Twcnty-second
Rt gilncnt 4. a. on Ma, CHI 26. BY that
date tho entire team will be assembled
in New York and Myer Prinstcin and
Charles j. DicgcS. Of the Tw.nty-sec-
end. are making arrangements to have
every member either compete in q
special r""nt or give an exhibition.
TIL committee which has charge Of
tho hill climbing contest for automo-
hilCS up Wilkcsbarrc mountain May 10
decided to engage W. G. Morgan to
take charge of the meet there and TO
get the entries. There are to be five
events including all classes of ma
chimes. aud one event will be open to
all the owners o. machines in this and
Lackawanna counties. The mountain
grade is at some points as much as 81
per cent. but the road is wide and well
made. Il is one of the most severe hill
climbing tests in the country.
Capt. Ray Van Orman Of the Cornell
football team has been removed from
tho university for the remainder of the
college year by the committee on stu
dent conduct for fraud in examination
in veterinary surgery on March II.
This leaves the football squad without
a leader and another captain may be
elected before June, depending upon
the action Of the athletic council. T..
E. Gibson Of Brooklyn was Van Or
mans opponent when the Varsity
squad chose its leader after the Penn
sylvania game last fall. and he is now
considered the most likely man for the
place.
William ID. Eaton. the speedy Som
crville Splinter. will sail from New
York March 81 on the "Barbarossa" on
his way to tho Olympic games, to be
held at the stadium at Athens in April.
All of the members who composc the
American team sail on that steamer
ard 1t is expected that many prizes will
he captured by the American athletes.
Eaton will run i'm the 100 metre dash
and the 400 metre run, which corre-
81 ond TO the 100-yard dash and the
quarter mile run in American sports.
Eaton has done 40 yards in 43-5 sec
cils and in the hundred can break
the worsted at 94-5 seconds easily.
The Anchor Liner Columbia. which
arrived Tuesday. brought over from
Scotland Ia golfers. who have come
here to act as professional instructors
i'll the game and to take part in leading
tournaments. Fred Band is goin;. to
Allegheny City; James S. Dow to St.
Louis; John Hobens to Englewood, n.
d.; Fred Low to Glen Cove. Il. r.:
Jfmes Maiden to Youngstown. O.;
David Robertson and Williamson Rob-
ertson to Pittsburg; John Taylor to AL
leghany City; Robert Thompson to
Philadelphia; Samuel White to Mem
phis and John Young to st. Louis,
while Richard ClarksOn will engage in
Manager Emerson Of the Harvard Uni
verslty crew has given out the statement
that tho date for <Ao