Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-06
Sporting Notes

vile. "A lc-fuflong affair for stake
of $1,000 at the Chantilly, France
course.
Only II men reported for tn" FIRST VOL
untary football practice al Harvard ana
Capt Wilmington ana Percy tlaughtoh'
the coach, issued call for more candl-
dates.
The all-round track championship OF
Harvard College was won in competitions
held in the Stadium by Samuel G. Law
renee. 1910, of Medford. who secured 62o-
points He cxcelled in the high jump and
pole vault.
orc T.. I{oldmani of the Glass of 1911.
was Saturday elected captain of the
Dartmouth track team. IiOldman,
Who's home is in Seattle is the New
England Intercollegiate pole vault
champion.
The Wisconsin eight cared crew easily
beat the Washington University eight
over three-mile court Saturday on Lake
Mendoza in a drilling rain. Wisconsin s
time was lGm. Gs. ana Washington cross
ed the finish lis. later. The race was
Wisconsin's from the start.
y. Paine won a l2-hour walking race
Saturday at London, covering u miles. 20
yards and breaking the worlds amateur
record BY more than three miles 7. r
Hammond the English walker on Sept
T., 1905 covered 100 miles III IS hours, A
min, 10 Is sec. He covered IS miles 33J
yards in the first T. hours of that event
which stood as the record until Saturday
Yale, Harvard, Columbia Pennsyl-
G. nave already Signitied their nten
non of sending rife teams to compete
in tie intercollegiate rife match 10 be
held in Washington June Is, under
The auspce Of the National Rife AS
sOciation. The six teams will shoot Tor
II cup which has been Won once by
Princeton, once by Columbia and twice
by George Washington University.
Miss Lonise Hammond of New York
Saturday at Philadelphia before a
large Grove won the Women'S cham
piOnShip of Philadelphia and Eastern
states at the Merton Cricket club in
the challenge round with Miss Isleo-
nora Sears Of Boston, who captured the
title last wear Miss Sears started out
like q winner, taking the first set to
J. but Miss Hammond improved in her
ply ,nG took the next two sets and
The championship
The eloop yach, Wnsome, owned and
sailed by Henry r. Lppit Of Providence,
Saturday won the cup offered by Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt for a Specia! race
of Co foot (Class ~ sloops Of the New
York Yacht club. The Winsome defeat
ed the 1stalena, owned by George NJ.
Pynchon, by min e sec. and the Anro-
ra owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt, by 10
min u sec The yachts sailed over a 20
mile course ON Long Island sound, start
ing and finishing off Glen cove.
The Atlantic City cup, emblematc of
the worlds amateur trap shooting cham
pionship, was won Saturday by Charles
II. Newcomb of Philadelphia in the fea-
ture event Of the New Jersey state shoot
which ended Saturday. NeWcomb broke
~ out of his century of targets. George
l.. Leon, professional. was high gun with
%, but he was not eligible for the prize
Lester $. German ana II. Stevens. also
professionals. Tied Newcomb at % tar
gets.
An unusually interesting and speedy
fleet OF yachts will follow the new blue
starred fog Of Commodore F. Lewis
Clark in the Eastern Yacht Clubs an
maui cruise next month along the
Maine coast. Already 10 SchoonerS, Is
single StickerS, a couple OF yawIS and
half dozen steam yachts have been
enrolled with Fleet Capt. Sanger for
the weeks sport, and by the time the
starting gun boOms out on the morning
OF July 9, it is expected that the feet
which sails out of Marbehead harbor
will be the largest in many years
The return race from Havana to At
1antic City of the four powerboats
which took part in the Philadelphia
to-HaVana race, started ut p NJ.
Saturday off Moro light. The boats
crossed the line together, and imme-
diately after the Berneyo, which won
the race to Havana. took the lead. She
was followed closely by the Caliph, the
Ilys and the Caroline. They were sail
ing in this order when they passed out
of sight. The boats were accompanied
by Commodore Carbonell'S steam yacht
Gypsy, with the judges and a commit
tee representing the Havana Yacht
Club on board. They will make a stop
at Key West to take on gasoline. The
sea was smooth and Il brisk northeast
wind prevailed.
Fred CTexas'D Ramsdell. intercol-
legiate 100 yard champion of America,
will wear the red and blue of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania abroad this
summer in company with n. j. Cart
nell. PENIS great sprinter of several
seasons ago who is now the profess
sional Sprinting champion of the world.
Cartmell. who had been coaching in
the South until recently. returned to
Penn and aided Ramsdell to whip him
self into condition for the |. G, A. a.
a. A. games. They became pals. the
amateur and the worlds CHAMPION
and both being Southerners, il did not
take them long To patch up tour Of
England Wales and Ireland. cartmell
is now the idol of the English ath-
letic world, for he beat a. F. POstle
of England, who was thought to be in
Tincihle in the sprints.
That participation in college athletics
LAYS the foundation for quick decision
and action in after life a certain little
incident i'll the Far West, recently,