Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-02
SPORTING NOTES.

Nv ballot of tire Williams College
students Phillip &. Haywood OF Wor-
cester, Mass. member of the SOPHIE
more class. has been chosen assistant
manager Of the Varsity baseball team.
oscar Hediund is such a consistent
miller in his time performances thar
one often wonders what he eould do
if lie had an expert trainer to tit him
for his races oscar tends to business
and practically does his own training.
The Boston Athletic Association win
not hold members track and field
sports this spring, but viii wait until
September, when it is proposed to
have an invitation meeting, from
which will be selected the men who
win represent New England at the
Canadian A. A. L. championships.
AMI speaking about schoo1boy con
tests. maybe that performance by Ed
die Rfahan. the crack Andover athlete
isn't worthy Of mention. Any Young
ster that can play a game of bali and
trot over and race Freddie Burns To
the tape in a hundred and furlong race
is Some athlete. Mahan is going to pat
Natick back again on the map as the
Donoyans, Murphys ana Fitzpatricks
did years ago.
George GeHnors up at Exeter, comes
pretty near occupying the same posi-
ton in the scholastic ranks that Jack
Moakley does among the college train
ers. When it comes to developing
sehoolboy cracks no coach has any
thing on the diminutive trainer Exeter
has always been in the running ever
since Connors has been with the team,
and John Paul Jones of Cornell, too,
is one of the veteran school trainers
products. / don't know what Burns,
the present Exeter sprinter, and Bing
ham, the half miller, win accomplish
when they get to college. but judging
from Jones example these two fiiers
viii also be heard from. You will
have TO hand il to the Exonians for
developing a crackajack athletic team.
keene Fitzpatrick is very confident
that Ralph Craig of Michigan did
better than 40 seconds in the mile
championship relay race at the Penn
carnival when he gave Ira DaVen-
port of Chicago the race OF his life.
He admits that such a performance
could not be figured ON tiny report
of the games but he raises the point
that too frequently followers OF ath-
ietics base the advantage in yards
that one man, who picks up a relay,
has over the lad who chaaes him, by
the distance by which the two tired
men OF the previous relay are separat-
ed at the finish; whereas the fresh
man, who gets away with a lead, is
going twice as fast as the tired sec
ond man who is finishing. Fitzpatrick
maintains that before Craig picked up
his relay Davenport was more than
II Yards away, and that craig got
back nearly 10 yards. As Davenport
was timed officially in 40 "a seconds.
il is easy to believe that Craig did
run under 40 seconds.
Have you ever noticed how often
nowadays the good mile runner viii
also run the half=mle equally we'll in
the same meet2 In the old days The
regular combination for a crack mid
dle-distance runner was the quarter
and the half-mile. Ira Davenport's
great performances at the Conference
meet last year We're at these distances!
Billy Goodwin won the quarter ana
halfmiles for Harvard at three sue
cessiVe intercollegiates i'm the early
SOS Dohm of Princeton and D0wnes
of Harvard We're two great men at
either distance, and there We're many
others.
MANY of the college athletes who
made track and field history at the M
tercollegiate championships are eX"
pected to compete at the Seth spring
games of the New York Athletic club
at Trayers Island on Saturday The
program includes 10 events. the ma
jority being handicaps. OF the victori-
Gus Cornell team r :. Berna, who
made a new American record for two
miles at Cambridge and who broke
Tommy Connects long standing worlds
amateur mark for one mile, made at
Travers Island on Aug. 2S, 1895, are
entered. Among others named are Joe
Horner, Michigan's great weight
thrower; u. p, Young, the Amherst
quarter miller, and X. G. Craig, Mich
igan's star Splinter. The one-mile race,
handicap, open to colleges, clubs.
leagues and Young Mems Christian
Associations, is likely to be one OF the
best races ever held over the famous
old circle.