Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-29
RAPID STRIDES.
Athletics Show Marked
Improvement at Bates
Prospects Bright For Football
and Baseball Next Year.
Several Good Men Will Leave, But
There Is Plenty Of Material.

Lewiston, Me, Nov. 2S.-(SpcciaD.-
years, made marked advancement in
many ways, both as an educational in
stitu.ion and in many branches of ath-
lctic sport. Her most marked advance
ment in the athletic line during the past
year has been in the football depart
ment. Further than this her prospects
for next year are highly favorable for
a winning team. She loses only two
men, Foster and Wight. \ few words
should be said regarding these two
athletes, Eugene S. Foster of Burn
ham, Me, fitted for College at NJ. G. l.,
where he was prominent as a football
man. Since entering Bates he has
played football during his whole course.
Foster has the quality of be-
ing strong, steady man with
lots Of grit, as he manifested
BY playing the whole of the Bowdoin
game with badly spraincd ankle.
Foster has not done much as yet in
track work since. He has not practiccI
at it any until last spring. Then he
showed quality as hammer thrower
and with sufficient practice he will
rank with any of the hammer throwers
in Maine. He, as we'll as being a strong
athlete. is also a strong Y. NJ. c. A.
man. He is secretary Of the Bates Col
lege Y. NJ. c. A.
Laurence n. Wight fitted at Bridgton
Academy from which he graduated in
1908. On entering Bates College he
moved to the front in his Freshman
year as an ''all around athlete" His
training at Bridgton Academy served
him i'm good stead, for here he played
football as quarterback and halfback
during his course. He also played base
ball and was one of 3. AS. brightest
stars on second base. In his Freshman
year at college he made both baseball
and football BIS by playing as short
stop on the Varsity baseball team md
quarterback on the football team. The
same year he showed up well as a
quarter miller and during his course
has been the leading man in the gym
nasium. Besides showing marked quail
tiles as an athlete Wight has done
good work in his studies and has gone
SO far as to be listed as a member of
Bates College. His rank along this line
is the office of assistant in the zoologi-
cal laboratory. Mr.. Wight has been bus
mess manager of the Bates Student
during the past year and has also
served as treasurer of his society.
EurOsophia. A better formed. better
type of an alI-around college student is
seldom found.
The loss of these two men will weak
en- the team to quite an extent, yet there
Is excellent material left. Hull ami Fra :
yer will be here as halfbacks; Manning
and Cobb will fill positions ut quarter
and full, and for Fosters place there
will be Brown 10. Cole 10. French '0S.
and Parks 90. to choose from. with
the prospect of some good men enter
ing in 1907.
Bates record hasn't been as good in
baseball hut everything indicates q good
season next spring. Elk" JohaSons whole
heart and sole arc centcred in forming Il
winning team. and what he don't know
about the game isn't worth knowing.
There Is at present an excellent squad
of men to pick from. There is Wilder
Bowman. Boothby. Jordan. Rogers and
Cobb Of last years team, besides other
men who are good players. Bridges. 'OS.
has never been out for baseball but he
has the reputation of being one OF the
heaviest hittcrs in Maine. Cole 10, had
n reputation when he entered both as u
pitcher and a second basemdn IInyri-
man, 10, will probably make a good sub
pitcher Burncll. '0S. French 'OS Pome-
roy. '02 Mccullough. '0S Tasca. 10, all
can be relied upon to develop into good
players.
1t is in track work tnat Bates has made
the greatest stride From her record Of
four points made at the intercollegiate
meet in 1905 she sprang to the rc,rarkabln
record of 90 points in 1906. She lost good
point winners in johnson. Philips and
WiGgin. but she still has left some good
men. Boswcrth. 'oS. can he depended upon
to bring in some points on the two-mile
run. Stree ne already holds the New Eng
land record. Frazer is Il good man in th.,
high hurdles. as is Schumacher; Foster
French and Schumacher are improving
with the weights. Among the new men
those who have the making of good track
men are Williams. Kicker. Harmon Bcs-
ton and Frost
In debating Bates has always shown
great results. Last year she won from
Hhe University Of Vermont: the year pre-
ceding she Won from Maine. and she has
excellent debaters still DIN Pendleton, '07.
Davis. '07. AlGrich. 'O7, Noble, '0S. Bridges.
'oS. and Merrill 'oS.
The financial resources Of Bates ara
also improving. She has quite recently
been the recipient of $4,000 ard is now
rejoicing in anticipation of her grand au-
dltoriun which is promised by Winfield
scott Libby of Lewiston. This building
will be erected ir 1907-1eOS on the farther
side of Mountain avenue.
In recent game Of basketball between
the Juniors and Sophomores. Ralph A.