Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-10
SPORTING
SPORTING NOTES.


the words "Red Sox" instead Of the
OLD English letter "B''.
Hugh Jennings of the Detroit Tigers
says no baseball player can come
back" and advises Mike Donlin of the
New York Giants 10 stick to the stage.
How about the work. during the last
few weeks of last season, BY klinS
OF the Chicago Cubs?
The University of Missouri will he
the first Of the institutions to start
the work upon one Of the many pro-
posed new stadiums. The students in
the engineering department prepared
the plans for the structure which viii
seat 9h,J0A. The estimated cost OF con
struction is $4,000.
Capt Smith Of the Georgetown track
team announces that Gibbs. Davis,
Sy,rowles and Martin. running prob
atty in the order named. will be
Georgetowns relay team in the three
cornered race with Holy Cross AMI
Boston College at the B. 4. \. games.
Saturday night.
Fred Snodgrass. the center fielder OF
the View York Giants. who threatened
TO give Ty Cobb a close race for the
hitting championship of the major
leagues. has signed his contract for
another year "Snod' writes that he
is going direct to Marlin Springs after
an unusually beneficial winter In Cali
forna.
Where will this sacrificing of
strength and stamina for speed. by the
horse racers, end? Where are the old
10Th a y1 yhTaP-rIlilp SDrllt-
ers gone? The gamblers each year
are gaining more and more control OF
the sport and sacrificing everything
70 develop superiority in the short
dashcs.
Where is this Boston, the boosted
fifth city in the union ir population"
II doesn't seem TO be listed with New
York. Philadelphia, Pittsburg. Chicago
ard st. Louis in the bios COR thu indoor
national swimming championships for
1911. We remember when most OF the
Hub turned out 20 watch well-adVer-
tised women swimmers. Fie on YOU
Boston
Yusiff Mahmout's managers seem in
earnest in their effort TO secure
chance for their nan to wrestle either
Hackenschmiot or Zbyszko. Their
latest move in this direction is an
offer Of. sIoo0 20 anyone who will ar
range a finish bout with either of
these men. If Mahmout loses to either
he is TO get no part of the purse. His
managers are Message and Krone Of
Chicago.
Here's your chance. Manager Hanks,
3. Muiroy, $50 West 18th ST. New York
city, writes as follows: Il would like
70 hear of some manager. / am "A
ears of age. six feet, two inches in
my stocking feet, and | am very fast.
/ weigh 2o0 pounds and have been box
ing in New York clubs and / am an
xious TO have the first crack at Jack
johnson fer tile heavyweight cham
nicnship of the world
Glass legislation" sticks out all over
the bin introduced in=Sew York. legal
lzing Sunday baseball when played by
amateurs. The break comes in the
fact that it permits one class OF play
ers TO operate or the Sabbath and at
the same time compels another class
to refrain from participating in the
sport. Then too, the big nagnates ara
he drawn between amateurs" and
professionals
= special train de luxe, consisting OF
six cars will carry the Red Sox on
their S,9o0-nile training trip 70 Cali
iornia. There will be Is in the party.
including newspaper men. The train
will carry a library baggage
car. diner and three sleeping cars. In
the combination buffet and baggage
car there will be a barber shop and
baths. Chicago will be the mecca for
the players gathering for the trip. The
special viii leave Chicago on the even
ing of February o. and will be routed
over the southern lines. arriving at
Los Angeles on the afternoon of Feb
ruary %. From Los Angeles the team
will proceed TO Redondo Beach and to
the Redondo Beach hotel where the
entire third floor has been reserved for
the Bostonians. Dressing rooms and a
baseball park have been arranged for
by Mr.. O'Neill and the players will
have the benefit OF salt water baths
while there. The ontire squad will re
main until March /.
Pennsylvania sporting men come out
with Il platntiVe wall against the stand
taken by Harvard and Yale. 'Why,"
demands one writer, should Penn
sylvania crawl to Harvard, Princeton
and Yale to secure fair competition
in athletics? Why should Pennsy
change its eligibility rules as demand
"a by. these exclusive institutions? Is
our college going 10 cripple its teams
for several years, at this period. mere
" because of a whim of these unfair
athletic boards % After 4 careful
study OF the records of the controversy
Z would appear .that Pennsy will not
he forced to modify its eligibility
rules. n seems that it is quite within
the privilege of this institution TO hold
10 its present system of using all
grades Of moSey- seeking athletes. both
In tie college and in the attached
schools. ii so inclined. The teams OF
Harvard, Yale and Princeton have
made no overtures, merely having
stated the terms upon which the Penn
sylvana college will be accommodated
--aptIol fp1tipp