Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-08
|SPOR TING.
GENERAL "A. SPORTS.
Power Boat Races at Palm
Beach Begin Tomorrow.
Big international Pedestrian
Contest Now In Progress.
Other Big. Sporting Event: Show
Above the Horizon.

Indoor sports, after an active WIN
ter season will soon give way to open
air contests of skill and strength This
week there will be a notable series O!
power boat races at Lake Worth, Palm
Beach. Fla. Tie races will be begun
Tuesday and last until Friday and will
attract the owners of the fastest ves-
sells of their class.
An International SiX-day gO-aS-you-
please pedestrian contest is now in
progress in Madison Square Garden.
New York Twcnty-seven teams have
entered. The race begun at 1905 this
morning. The teams include some of
the best long distance men in Amer
ca and Europe as we'll as pair from.
the Philippine Islands. Each man is
to be on the track IL hours out OF "A
each day. Frequent relays will be mad.
so that new professional records are
looked for at all distances after the
first 50 miles have been covered
Automobiles in the Eastern states
are interested in the New Yorkto-
Boston endurance race which will start
from New York on Thursday morning.
The prize for the winning car in this
contest is the Chester I. Campbell
trophy. All along the route, particular
ly at Worcester. Mass, elaborate
preparations are being made for the
reception of competitors. Fourteen
cars are entered up to date. but this
number will be doubled before the
start is made.
Three pugilistic bouts of 10 rounds
each are scheduled for New York this
week. Big Jim Stewart Of Brooklyn
will meet Jack (Twim Sullivan to-
night at the Marathon A c., Boyo
Criscoll will be given another chance
IT, redeem himself with Frankie Neil
at the Fairmont A. c. on Tuesday. ana
Joe Cans. the former lightweight cham
pion. will meet Jabez White, former
English champion, at the National A.
G.. New York on Thursday evening.
James J. Jeftries, who still speaks
evasively as TO whether he will return
TO the ring and fight Jack johnson.
the new champion heavyweight. will
continue the light training he began
in San Francisco several weeks ago.
Johnson is now en- route from Homo
lulu while AL Kaufman and his man
ager, Billy Delaney, are on their way
East from San Francisco. The three
men may be in New York at the same
! time and should this occur within e
couple of weeks. something definite is
expected before johnson leaves for
London, where he is to meet Sam Lang
ford in May.
Amateur and professional billiardists
are making preparations for the ma
tional amateur and international pro
fessional championship tournaments
which will be decided in New York
during the next five weeks. There will
be seven contestants in the profession
al world, 3 championship match at 49,.
balk line including Louis Cure of Paris.
George Sutton, George Slosson and Ora
G. Morningstar. New York; Calvin W.
Demarest. Chicago: H. P. Cline, Phila-
delphia, and Albert C. Cutler, Boston.
Cure, who came over here two years
ago in an endeavor to take away the
title. will continue practicing in New
York. as will SlOsson, Sutton and Morn
ingstar. Sutton and Slosson will NEE.
next week in a match of 500 points for
the ISL championship which will b.
decided in New York three days before
the 1872 tourney begins Slosson sue
ccssfully defended the title last Janu-
airy. sI&aF
Many new aspirants for amateur
honors will compete next week at the
Liederkranz Club, New York. for Tic
| title which Demarest abandoned when
he turned professional. This years en-
| trants, however, will be confined to
those who are capable of making a
Crane average of I at 1872 balk line
billiards.