Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-11
Sporting Notes

While training for . race. Morris
| Van Dendries. "a, alh@hur blcsclist'
was almost instantly siit"i at me We
lodrome track in Newark. n j. SAT
ucday. He sprinted head first INTO
post. fracturing his skull
Forty-one colleges Will compete III the
annd@l relay carnival Of ~" hiNefslty
of PENNSYLVANIA, April 30 Entries Tor
the ,ne. two and four-hi'E coiiese
championship de not close until me l'th.
so the full list of classes has not been
| made out yet
Charley Freine. pitcher training
with the Philadelphia team. can pitch
with either hand Perhaps he is the
man Fred Tenney was telling Bugs
Raymond about last season DO you
know. Bugs" Tenney said. that guys
ambidextrous?" sure" Bugs came
back He'd shoot you i'll minute.
Harvard defeated Princeton in IL
dual gun match at Princeton Saturday.
The teams We're tied with a score of
1856 when an extra round OF ~ DlrdS
a side was decided upon This also re
suited in a tie but on the next shoot
off Harvard won.
Joe Ballard. Boston A. A.. won the
| special three-mile match race OF the
| Providence A. &. at the Sablh street
grounds Saturday. J. II. Maloney won
second, NJ Morris. Brooklyn, q. G..
i third. Ballard's time was lam s. o-oS.
}, Malonev is entered III the Boston A. a.
Marathon run.
Aviation honorS were carried off
saturday at Memphis. Tenn, bv the
u amateur. J. &. Mars. who gave his first
public fights on the opening day and
euualled Curtiss' worlds quick start
record OF : A. IS Saturday. Mars at
tanned hight also estimated ut 400
feet, circling the course Scvera! times.
Fighting" Tommy Bcrgin Of Lewis
ton Was III the city Sunday ana called
on his friends at the Journal Office. Tom
| my announces that liz has secured the
services of lack Allison, the wcll-known
pocI PLAYER as his manager, and that he
will probably come over to Augusta to
work. as he has had good position Of
tcrod him.
\ new record for tie Military Ath-
letic League 100 yard championship
WAS established Saturday night at the
leagues annual games in the 23d Regt.
|
I'D Regt. ran the distance in 10c.
breaking the record of 10 1-Js made by
Lawson Robertson and f. l.. Stephens
, in 1909.
Thure Johansun, the Swedish run
ncr. and Jim Crowley will meet IN u
match race over the Marathon distance
, at Celtic park, Long Island City. April
a Ernie Hertberg issued the challenge
on behalf of Johanson. following the
latters defeat by Crowley i'll the Mar
, athon Derby last Saturday. and the de
: tails were arranged recently. The race
t will be run under the direction Of the
( Swedish American Athletic Associa-
ton.
The members of the Portland Gun
lClub are working hard in. preparation
for the first big registered shoot to be
held by the club. The secretary, 5.
/ Dimick. is Sparing no pains to
make the event a great success. and
= he has the hearty support of the entire
organization. The shoot will be held
; Monday and Tuesday. May 80 and 81,
; on the Ocean Avenue grounds. and a
large number of the crack shots of
New England will participate.
With the exception of Harvard and
Yale, whose teams will compete only
in the championship events, the only
New England institutions entered for
the relay races of the University of
Pennsylvana's big meet the last of
this month are the Massachusetts In
sbtitutc of Technology and Wesleyan
, University. Both Technology and Wes-
leyan have been assigned to Glass | in
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team in that class will be the Unlver-
sity of Syracuse Entries for the cham
pionship relay races at the one, two
and four mile distances do not close
until April II.
The Marblehead Yacht Club has &C
cepted the challenge of the Portland
Yacht Club for a series of races to de-
eide the possession of the knight cup.
The Portland club recently sent its
challenge to the Bay State organiza :
ton and during the past week the ac-
Ceptance was received Portland has
not yet had possession of the cup
which was donated by Commodore
| Knight OF the Boston Yacht Club for
the winners of the interstate dory con-
tests but the Forest City sailors have
every hope that they will bring the
trophy to Maine this season. The races
will be sailed on Aug. 2, 3, and in
Marblehead bay, since the cup is held
by the Marblehead Club.
In field of 81 distance runners. Will
liam WeiSman of the South Boston A.
c. trotted over the tape Saturday af-
ternoon. winner of the second annual
open crosse country road race of the
Cathedral Y NJ c. A., his elapsed time
being 5Sm. 21s He finished in good
form. The race was close. Weisman
taking the lead in the last half mile
John Halfenstein of the Brookline
: gymnasium, who was first at the turn
in 29m 3Os. finished II seconds after
Weisman g. p. kimball of Everett
) was third A runner who claims to be
! f. Bello OF Milford finished fourth. His
prize. however. was withheld by the
cathedral organization pending inquiry
INTO an allegation as to his identity.
, president NJ Stanley Robson of the
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