Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-26
SPORTING NOTES.

| come back" and the wonderful gray
PAGER that proved sensation in the
famous handicap pace at ReadNllle
| two years ago is decidedly on his way
| back
The Maine State golf championship
| tournament which was to have beer
| held at Portland the first week in Au-
| gust. has been declared off. Karl Mos
ser, the present State champion, who
has won two legs ON the trophy To be
! presented to the player capturing II
| three times in succession, Will propa-
| bly, be given permanent possession.
They say that many of the Yale
! crew. who were defeated so handliy
! by Harvard in the boat race at Ne"
| London. will go cut and train harder
| than ever to make the Yale football
| team Their only consolation IS that
| if they cant lick tie Crimson ON the
water they surely can hand Il out
| COED and plenty iii the gridiron game.
Ralph Good one OF the best ath-
| letes turned out at Colby and at one
time pitcher with the Boston Nation
ais. is attending the Harvard summer
school II is physical director OF the
| Cobum Classical Institute at Water
vile, Me, a school that is developing
| an exceptional athletic plant John
| Corbett, the famous Harvard halfback
| oil the early eos. is another well-known
athlete at the summer school
Mel Sheppard. the half-miie cham
pidn is now beginning To show signs
of kicking over the traces in The pro
posed Jones Sheppard Abel kYiat
mile race saturday I want Jones or
no one" SAYS the peerless half mllef
Sheppard however, seems to overlook
Kiviat; but according to my reason
ing Kiviat is in the class of any Of
them.
Tommy Keane, the Syracuse ath-
letic trainer. stnl believes that Reid
path, his crack quarter miller, is able
to outstride any Of the college cracks
At nat distance Too bad Reidy was
unable TO show his gait last season,
owing to an injured leg, but neNs year
he will have all the chance IN the
world Between the college cham
pionships and the Olympic trials he
will have plenty Of competition.
Nat: McGrath has resigned from
the New York A, c. and Con Walsh,
the national champion hammer throw
er is reported TO lave joined the Seat
tie A c., and If released viii BE- chg
IDLE to coz pete for that club after
Aug / The loss of these two great
naen with the weights Will De serious
to the club in The compilation OF
points in the coming metropolitan
championships The Mercury Footers
Will have to zig up another john
Flanagan.
mat the Hartford football authori-
ties have given their orders for the
printing OF tickets warns US that the
season is coming On arace. By the
way. the Princeton, Carlisle. Dart
mouth and Yale games, coming in sue
cession, make the assignment of tick
cts somewhat of a big proposition.
While the game with the Tigers is
to De played at Princeton, there will
be host Of applications from New
York and the middle Atlantic DIS
tricts
Chicago is planning q Henley course
10 rival in size and beauty the ia
nous course on the English Thames. It
is to be located upon the water front
OF Grant park. which has been enlarg
ed and improved upon the lake Aichi
gan side. To rival the picturesque real
Henley seems an almost impossible
task, with its immediate setting of
costly and elaborate houseboats and
varied craft that line the course. How
ever. the English Henley regatta was
established as far back as 1889 and Is
a national institution Of splendid ira
ditiDn. Give US time and We may pro-
duce a classic event Of similar import
ance.
Ralph Rose of the Olympic Club of
Calf 5rnia s coming cut OF his shell
for the iron sphere event in the 0lym-
pies next season All the other shot
putters are beginning to quake with
fear. At that, however, Rose will
have to be in great shape to win
With Babe Mcdonald of the New
Yorks doing well over At feet. and
"Bill" Cue of the B A. A right on
top Of the Il feet mark. Rose will
certainly have to put some. Above
all there is Joe Horner of Michigan
In practice TREY tell me Joe can get
the iron sphere out around the At
foot mark. but has not done it in real
competition Perhaps the Wolverine
crack viii yet be heard from.
one Of the signs Of the remarkable
growth and general popularity Of
lawn tennis the world over is that
the supply Of tennis balls is by no
means equal to the present demand.
Ore manufacturer las recently stated
that he was more than 300 dozen be
hind his orders fer tournaments alone,
aud in the Middle states championship
tournament the officials had TO DOR
row from private individuals and
clubs to finish the tourney. 1t is stat
ed that all the rubber ball founda-
| tons are made in Germany, and some
| manufacturers in this country claim
that it win be impossible to get more
| until next season. The felt covering
| is put on in This country.