Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-27
Sporting NezVs OF the Day
SPORTING NOTES.

The news from our athletes in the
Antipodes made a pleasing Christmas
greeting.
The Harvard University hockey
squad arrived Friday for a 10-days
stay at Syracuse. N. Y. The team will
play four games on the artificial ice in
the arena, two Of which will be with
the Ottawa University team.
Gene Gianinni, the New York A. c.
rowing coach who goes to Yale, was a
very popular athlete 20 to Is years ago,
and that popularity has never been
dimmed in all the years he has acted
rs coach, The proposed banquet in his
honor will be 'rouser."
If Notre Dame gets on the Yale foot
hall schedule next fall, its team and
individual players are likely to receive
more prominent recognition from the
cities of the East than was the case
this year. The great exonents of the
open game will be watched with inter-
est In their game with the Ellis.
IN the Freshman year, 1879, Olmsted
played first base for Harvard against
the Boston. One of the papers in its
account referred to him as Plumsted,
and one of the Harvard players re-
marked on seeing this typographical
error that's the name for you." Ever
after he was known throughout the
college world as Plum"
George Underwood tells us that II
| was not surprising that Hans Lobert
heat Jim Thorpe in sprint last fall as
| Hans has been a professional sprinter
| and a consistent 10-second man. He
certainly has an odd gait for sprint
err hut his speed is surely on tap.
did not suppose, however. that he real
| ly could beat the Indian at his best.
Turfmen heard with regret Friday
of the death of Frank L. Tyler, d
! bookmaker known from coast to coast
as "Humming Bird" Tyler. He died
! Thursday at his home in the Bronx
of pneumonia. Tyler got his nickname
on the New York courses because of
the peculiar method of calling off bets
| to his sheet maker. He made a So
called big store book when racing was
in its heyday thereabouts and handled
| thousands Of dollars on each race.
One of the new men of note who will
| come into intercollegiate athletics this
! winter and next spring is Kenneth r
| Curtis, a Sophomore at Syracuse. Cur
| tbs as school boy and Freshman has
| shown such ability as pole vaulteI
| that even Tom Keane's expectation
that he will break the pole vault rec
ord does not seem very extravaganza
While at Tome School, Curtis did lift.
1oin. He later did lift. in the junior
championships, lift, 312in. in the Met
ropolitan championships and won the
event at the Penn Relay Carnival at g
hight of lift, 61an,
Frank Hinkey's selection by Capt
| Talbot as Yale's head coach in foot
ball will undoubtedly bring back the
'eld guard" of the days when Yale
was supreme IN the game, and in larg-
| er numbers even than was the case
| last fall bat Hinkey himself has rare
| ~ been out of touch of the game
| through all its changes, and, therefore
| is best qualified of any of the Older
men to build up system to restore
| Yale's prestige. He believes in the
| modern game, which some of his as
| sociates of years ago are slow to ac-
| cspt. Hnkey was one of the greatest
football players of all time, and as a
maker of ends was for a long time con-
sidered to be in class by himself.