Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-30
SPORTING MITES.

Charles W. Evans. IT, OF Chicago. the
Western open golf champion again went
around the links in rs in the third round
of the open golf championship Thursday at
Sandwich Eng HIS total 5,ore Is PSI
Bruce" Bearce. the all-Maine tackle
and Maine first saeker. has secured
the position of athletic instructor at
Hebron Academy for the year bile.
Rearee Will have charge of all. the
branches Of athletics. Coach Edwards
of the track team is to enter Harvard
Medical School.
Already the stories are coming out of
New Haven that Yale may 40 away with
the professional coaching system aud the
general expectation seems to be that Bill
" Lush will not be reeHgaged. Dick Mer=
rift the new captain. is said. however. to
look with favor upon Lush's system of
coaching. One keen CRITIC of college base
ball remarked the other az that wa the
most eoIorless Yale nine that l have seen
in long time.
Gardiner fans hope that there will
be baseball game in Gardiner July
Fourth in the forenoon between Hanks
Wonders and the Gardiner locals. The
Gardiner team wants a game in their
city that day and would be willing to
play return game in Augusta in the
afternoon. The Gardiner fans have not
Yet had chance to seq their team i'm
action and a game with the Wonders
would surely give them a good run for
their money
The combined ox6rd-cambridge
teams from which thesathletes will be
chosen to met the Yale Harvard rep
rescntatiVes have Eeen training to-
gether at oxford. Eng for the past
week. They started for Cambridge
Thursday by way of London and will
visit the Queens Club grounds, where
| the International intercollegiate meet
VIII be held on July II. Several of the
EnghShmen are entered for the anna
| teur athletic association championship
meeting on Saturday mainly for prac-
| tee for they are not yet trained to
winning form.
a stream of athletes from all parts
of the United states poured into Pitts
burg, Pa. Thursday and Thursday
night Before noon Friday BOO men.
| the cream of Americas athletic talent,
III -fffNt dSStHibitd at ftIueS ICld TO
| participate on Saturday in the Ma
| tional Amateur Athletic Union Junior
and Senior championship games. OF the
| 500 entrants, 500 are titleholders From
among the winners Will be selected the
| American representatives to the Olym-
| pic games to be held next year at
| Stockholm. Sweden. Thirty-two cities.
| extending from Maine to California.
I aud embracing 81 of the well known
| athletic clubs of the country, have en-
| tered their best talent.
| one college regatta has just gone down,
| into history as one Of the greatest ever
| and Friday Harvard and Yale will have
battle of oars on the Thames that is
| likely to have big influence on college
| rowing history Harvard has had so many
fast time trials at all distances that it is
possible to reject AL the constant remind
ers that the conditions were favorable and
| accept the fact that The crew must lie to-
| gether and be rated as exceptionally fast
| We all know that physically the HchJ men
| in the Harvard toat are superb specimens
of sturdy American youth. Yale is a much
| improved crew afjc" a most disCouraging
preliminary season and has done fast trials,
but whether ii can stand the gaG Of a
gruolling race Is yet to he proved Another
defeat will be likely 10 work a Complete
change in Yale'a rowing system