Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-10
SPORTING NOTES.

Yale isn't given look in in the com
| ing Harvard Yale boat race. Harvard
| is booked to give the Ellis the greatest
| lacing the Blue ever received. Down
at New Haven they haven't given up
hope as yet. and it wouldn't be the
greatest surprise if the Ellis came back
| and did things. There certainly have
| beer, all kinds of upsets and surprises
in the college athletic game the pres
I ent season.
The Boston Bermuda yacht race has
been called off. owing to the fact that
only the Vanderbilt yacht is ready to
start. The race was scheduled to start
Saturday, June 10. The announcement
that the race is off was made to Mayor
| Fitzgerald Friday by Bryan S. Permar
chairman of the race. just what is to
be done with the $500 cup which the
city of Boston has prepared for the
winner will be considered later.
1t looks as if Harvard and Pennsey
are gradually burying the Ratchet
With the Quakers and the Crimson
meeting on the diamond again, it is
only a question of time before the two
colleges will be meeting on the grid
iron and ill other branches of sport
So let it be. It's a great thing for col
lege sport With all the big fellows
gradually coming together in the diff
ferent branches of sport we will be
able to decide better than ever just
whore seine of those college champion
ships belong.
Canada has been invited to compete
in the Coronation games in England
June "a but we don't see any invita-
tons extended to America to compete
in the same contests. The Canadians
will send a dozen athletes abroad for
the prizes and they have fine chance
to get a good share. Harry Gissing and
Tex Ramsdell may butt into the com
petition but it does not look that way.
England surely never got over that
Olympic fuss of 1908 and the Britishers
claim they never will as long as some
of the leading American officials on
tinue to dictate the policy of amateur
athletics on this side of the water
They're after Ralph Craig of Michi-
gan almost as hard as they are after
Jones, the Cornell miller. No mistake,
some of the champions have their
troubles. Now the Canadians want the
border They are offering all sorts of
inducements aud will give him a job
and everything else if he will only
consent to race there. There is no
getting away from the fact that the
Canadians know how to treat cham
pions royalty. Recall Sherring's great
reception when he won the Olympic
Marathon in Greece. A government
position WAS offered him and gifts were
presented galore Craig, no doubt. will
be welcomed just as heartily. but the
Western crack belongs on this side of
the line, inasmuch as the Swedish
Olympic games are coming along and
Uncle Sam needs every champion he
can muster.
Australia is one of the foremost
sporting countries in the world. Her
cricket, football and tennis players
are second to none. AS to her boxers.
the mere mention of the names of
Robert Fitzsimmons and Young CRITIC
establishes a standard. When it comes
to rowing there is certainly ne lack of
interest in this branch of sport in the
antipodes. Professional rowing is fos-
tered to a great extent. Only last
month a race in which 40 professional
scullers took part, known as the
"Paramatta Hundred" was raced on
the Paramatta river. The event is
looked upon as the rowing classic of
the country. The winner gets G10O.
together with gold medal and a pair
of SOULS. 1t would be hard to name
40 active professional scullers In this
country today let alone line them up
for race.