Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-09
SPORTING NOTES.

The Britons are now anxious to nave
John Paul Jones of Cornell exhibit MS
nrowess as a distance runner across
the water, but there win be nothing
doing.
The John OGaunt plate OF 200 SOW
ereigns for two years old. distance hRe
furlongs. run Thursday at Manchester,
Eng. was won by ]. r. keene's
Simulium. lie Touquet was second
and Airline third. There were five
starters.
Judging from the way that Abel
Kivist has been running this spring,
Oscar Hedlund looks to be up against
II when he meets the New Yorker in
the st. Joseph 7. A. S. games at Oak
Island June II. The distance to be
run will be one mile and Kiyiat is the
favorite.
Jack Moakley states that Putnam.
the Cornell half miller, will lead the
Ithaeans next season. The election of
the middle distance runner as leader
looks like another surprise like the
election of Childs down at Yale. Berna,
the two-mile champion. didn't get
look-in for the Cornell job where he
appeared as the logical man for the
honor as did Bobby Gardner at Yale.
Do they have the same politics UP at
Ithaca. A. sasklasa6f&
Jack TAFT. the Toronto runner, in
letter to George Brown. the B. A. A.
athletic manager, gives the interesting
information that Ralph c. Craig, the
sensational sprinter, has been offered
and has accepted a promising position
with an engineering concern in Toron-
TO. and that it is probable that he will
compete for the West End Y. NJ. c. A.
the leading athletic organization OF
that city. Craig will go to Toronto. il
is said, soon after his graduation from
Michigan University.
Here is good one about Harry
Grant. the daring chauffer who twice
won the Vanderbilt cup race and re
Gently competed in the 500-mile race
at indianapolis Harry was bowling
candle pins with some friends and
the youngster who was setting up the
thin sticks just barely missed one as
ii dew by his head. Grant. who thinks
nothing of tearing around sharp turns
at the rate of seventy miles an hour,
sometimes on two wheels, turned to
one OF his friends and remarked Not
for mine. | wouldn't be a pin boy for
a whole lot of money"
Fans are predicting a record break
ing season for oscar Hedlund, the
Brookline champion. Some have gone
so far as to state that the flier will get
under the 4 20 mark this season. He'd
hind will have tn il, ~.
sidered in the running. Since Jones
made new mile record of 4 rs 2-5
seconds for the distance. any miller will
now have to reach the 20 mark in
order 10 be considered in the reckon
ing Hedlund has reached the Ace
mark at present and II he ever is going
to get under this mark he should in
his coming meeting with Abel Kiviat,
the irish American crack. at Oak Is
land grove June II.
Harvard and Yale will run special
trains for the oxford Camhridge meet
at the Stadium and at New Haven
June 20 All the athletes who figured
IN the past college games will again
have to show their calibre. 1t is a.
good idea. The coming inter Varsity
games look to be the closest ever and
| the Blue and Crimson will have TO
| SNOW greater strength than ever.
| That new move of allowing the Fresh
| men to compete also appears TO be a
| great help TO the American team. and
ftllere is likely TO be more than one
| Freshman champion upset some III the
| calculations of the lavorites. Both
Mack At Yale and Donovan at Cam
bridge nave some q ackerJack young
ster performers.