Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-17

races planned for Friday and Saturday
will be held on Friday and Saturday of
next week.
BY practically unanimous vote of
the Kentucky House of Representatives
Wednesday passed a bill prohibiting the
opera ting of pool-rooms and fixing the
penalty of a line OF from $1,000 to $1,000
Gaily.
G. l.. Tut of Colorado Springs has
entered the Anemone for the proposed
race from San Francisco to Honolulu.
The Anemonc will soon sail from New
York for San Francisco around Cape
Horn.
Inter est Will be added to next sum-
mcr'o rowing contests at Henley by the
announcement that Selby Henderson.
the Canadian oarsman, will be on hand
for try at the diamond SOULS. AS a
member Of the Toronto Argonaut he
will represent that club.
Twenty-one horses have been regis
tered with the New York Jockey Club
rs owned in partnership by William
Hendrie, ST.. of Hamilton, Canada, and
his son, William Hendrie, Jr. A con-
tingeni of ten Of these are to he sent to
Bcnnings TO take part in the Wash
ngton meet. if sufficiently forward in
condition to do so.
IN driving snow storm, the third
race FOR the silver cup offered by the
BiddefOrd Record. took place on the
Saco river at Long Reach Thursday af-
tcrnoon in the presence of 100 people.
Sidney Roland, owned by Herbert r.
Jordan. wen the race. and now
has two-legs to his credit. while Direct
or Wilkes owned by Fred l. Bumpus
has one. If the Jordan horse captures
Saturdays leg, he will win the cup.
The following additional racing dates
for the season of 1896 were announced
Thursday by the stewards of the New
York Jockey Club: Rockingham park n.
H., New England Breeders Club
Thursday, June IS to Saturday. July Il
(21 days.; Saturday Sept. /, to Satur-
day. Sept. u G3 days.. Providence. +.
l.. NarIagansett Breeders Association -
MOndav. July IS. to Saturday. Aug. IL
GS days.. This will be the first year
racing has been conducted at the new
Rockingham park track.
Through his attorney. G. p. Rogers.
Arthur +. Duffey. holder of the worlds
amateur sprintinG records. served pa
rers Wednesday at New York on j. T.,
Sullivan, secretary and treasurer of the
Amateur Athletic Union, to show
cause why an order should not be
made to enjoin the Amateur Athletic
Union from refusing to give Duffcy
credit in the official records Of the
union for the running records es.ab-
lished by him. and why they should
not be enioincd from expunging the
said records from the official records OF
the Amateur Athletic Union.
President Joseph +. McCabe of the
Amateur Athletic Union of the United
States, recently instructed the sccrc-
tary of the union to have the board of
governors vote on a proposition to have
the union contribute $500 TOWARD the
payment OF the expenses of the AM
erican team that will represent Ameri-
ca at the Olympic games of 1906. and
the proposition las had the unani-
nous approval of the board Of COVER
nors. The committee to select the
team will meet ut the Waldorf. New
York. Feb. rs. when j. w. Curtis.
chairman of the finance committee will
report how much money he has re-
ceivcd, and the members of the team
Will be chosen
The Harvard and Cornell Varsity
crews will race on May IS over the
same rs mile course on the Charles
river, which was the scene of the con-
test last year. The race is the result
OF mutual desire on the part of both
Harvard and Cornell to make "A dual
Varsity race an annual affair Cornell
proposed that the race be held This
year over Il two-mlc course on Lake
Cayuga. but Harvard claimed the race
this year on the ground that for three
successive years before the Varsity
race. last year, Harvard sent a second
crew 70 Ithaca, while during that time
no Cornell crew rowcd on the Charles.
III 1907 the race will probably take
place on Lake Cayuga.
Regarding w. H. Rudolph. the De-
troit race track owner, the New Or
leaIS correspondent of the Chicago
tribune writes: 1T is not likely the
city park authorities will pursue W. n
Rudolph any further. Rudolph has
made away with $4,000 of the money of
somebody to whom he represented that
ne could make a fortune for his hacker
pE oriblng jockey. The swindle al
iesRd TO have been perpetrated had
none of the picturesque embeIlish.
ments that went with the first report
Rudolph simply took the $4,000 and
the nrst train out of town. The name
vi ms dupe has not been divulged and
Is not likely it will be unless some
detective agency digs it up.
a libel suit o an unusual kind has
neen brought b. the gentleman rider
Fl. de Wend Fenton. against the stew