Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-23
SPORTING NOTES.


nual Harvard interscholastic track
meet in the Stadium Saturday. scoring
| 4S1a points against 1914 made by Wor-
cester Academy and Is secured by
| Andover. Brookline High scored 6
points. Hopedale High 5, Quincy High
3 and Roxbury Latin school l.
In a stirring contest Of oars, form
and endurance which thrilled the spec
| tators and did credit to both victors
and vanquished, the Naval Academy's
Varsity crew defeated that of SYRIA
| cuse Saturday at Annapolis by a
| quarter of boat length in the final
boat race of the season. Time, 10 min
uteS, 35 As seconds.
l. The eighth annual regatta of the
American Rowing Association on the
Schuykill river Saturday at Philadel-
phia was featured by the work of the
Harvard second eight. In the Junior
collegiate eight-oared shell race. which
was won by Harvard, Columbia and
Pennsylvania rowed dead heat for
| second. OF the II races on the pro-
gram New York clubs captured five,
Philadelphia five and Harvard two.
Zbyzko, the big Polish wrestler, who
is matched with Frank Gotch at Chicago
for the worlds championship, will ap-
pear in Mechanics building, Boston, on
| the night of June against the best avail
| able heavyweight wrestler that can be
| secured. The event will be under the
| auspices of the Polish National Alliance
and part of the proceeds will be devoted
to church purposes. This will be Zbyz-
kos farewell to America, as he sails for
home the following day.
Five athletic champions went down
| to defeat Sunday in the games of the
Vendome Athletic Club at New ark,
n. j. Robert Edgren of the N. Y. A.
| c., hurled the discus inches farther
than the best Martin Sheridan mark
| 1873 feet. Melvin Sheppard finished
fourth in a 30O-yard handicap and
| Harry Gissing. his rival. fifth. John
Flanagan hurled the Hammer more
mon ellis of the New York A. c.
Jack Eller was third in the hurdles.
In one of the prettiest and closest
| races ever ran at Yale field, Burrage
| Of Harvard won the two-mIle run from
| Cross of Yale Saturday, passing him
| in the last two yards of the course
The event was one in the annual dual
games between the freshmen of Yale
| and Harvard, and Yale won the meet,
6'1e points to 1917 points. Three rec
| ords were broken, all by Yale men.
| thatcher Of Yale won the 100-yard
Dash 10 Is seconds, one-fifth of a
second faster than the record estab-
| lishcd by LaMOntagne four years ago
| In the quarter-mile, Capt. Brigham of
yale broke the record, going the dis
| lance in so 2-5 seconds faster than
| Ranney of Harvard did last year
Again, in the pole vault, Wagner of
Yale broke the record After the four
Yale men had tied at 10 feet, Wagner
went ahead to IL feet 6 inches. two
| lnches beyond the record established
py capt. Nelson when he was a fresh
man.
'ohn Ennis, famous generation
ago as a long distance skater and pc
uestrlan, announces that he will! start
from New York City on May % in an
eHort to cover the 43O0 miles by the
post road from New York to San
FRANCISCO in less time than the 100
Gays IN which E. P. Weston expected
10 make the distance. Ennis says that
the night before he starts he win visit
Ccney Island and take a plunge in
the Atlantic ocean, after which he
VIII come to New York City and re-
ceiVe message at City hall from
Mayor Gaynor to the Mayor of San
FRANCISCO. On the way across the
continent he will make swimming a
feature, for he says he believes that
sport second only in Importance for
development of the body to that of
walking. Ennis received his first
swimming lessons in Scotland when
hve years of age, and IS years ago.
after coming to America. he swan
across the Mississippi. He is in lis
69th year.
The Naval Academy finished field
and track season in which they have
not met defeat by winning from Penn.
state Saturday afternoon by "A to 43
points. State divided it's team in or
der to meet Dickinson also. and We're
without the services of Talbot, the
intercollegiate champion hammer
thrower, who was, called away and
did not contest at either place. The
midshipmen broke six records two
fifths of a second off and in the high