Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-12
SPORTING NOTES.

Hockey followers are looking forward
with much pleasure to the coming of at
least two Canadian teams to the Arena.
One is the Toronto Rowing Club seven,
and the other the Grand Mere team of
the Sherbrooks League. Up in Ontario
they consider the rowing club team the
ranking amateur aggregation of Canada,
while in Quebec the Grand Mere seven is
believed to be the best. B. A. A. will
meet both teams here in March, if all
goes as planned. and the chances are
that the Pilgrim A. A. will take on one of
them, and the Irish American A. A. the
other.
Too bad Tom Halpin and Carroll B.
Haff. the A. A. L. quarter-mile cham
pion, will not come together at the A. A.
T. indoor championships in New \ ork in
March. Half says he cannot get into
shape. Tom was hoping to get another
chance at the Michigan flyer and pay off
an old debt.
Fred Woodcock, the old Brown Uni
versity and Pitthburg pitcher is like his
old friend, Charley Nichols; he has to
keep his wing in shape. and bowling
is his favorite exercise. Fred is the high
roller of the Suburban Interclub League
as a member of the Cottage Park Yacht
Club team of Winthrop.
Pres. Hemstead and Sec. Foster of the
New York National League club have
made a splendid choice in their appoint
ment OF their official scorer for 1914. It
was happy thought that prompted them
to pin this badge of merit on William
nj -, ot,,zt LII, oyfth haaff fn
and capable baseball writer for the New
York Sun. Mr.. Hanna will follow the
Giants from their arrival on the Texas
training field, and from the start Nc
Graw's players will get their due.
Boston soccer enthusiasts will be in
terested to learn that the st. george A.
A, of which John G. kirwan is president,
has leased the Locust St. Grounds for the
remainder of the season. From the spec
tators and players viewpoint this is a
move in the right direction, as the re-
naming league games and the cup ties
can now be played under conditions fav-
orable to both. This means good soccer.
too.
James E. Sullivan's scheme of inter-
district A. A. u athletic dual meets Is
so good that 1t is a wonder no one has
sprung the idea before. The Globes ex-
elusive story was the talk of the town
among followers of athletics yesterday.
II is going on two years now since
Charley Redpath, Olympic 4oo-meter
champion, was graduated from Syracuse,
but the students of that university dc
not forget easily a popular favorite, who
did much for the glory of Syracuse In
athletics, and they are arranging big
banquet in his honor. Tom Keane says
it is to be the greatest affair ever for
Syracuse Reidpath is employed as a
civil engineer for a Buffalo contracting
firm.
It will please the whole baseball world
to receive the reassuring news of the
condition of Pres. Charles A. Comiskey
of the White Sox. great power in
| baseball councils and a popular idol, both
! as player and a magnate, the "Old Ro-
man" ranks among the foremost men
the game of baseball has produced. His
big heart has made him a host of friends
Jim Rosenberger has two legs on the
suburban Quarter" trophy, to be raced
for later at the St. Anthony games in
New York, but he will need the use OF
four legs on himself to ever get perma-
nent possession of the cup, with Tom
Halpin and Ted Meredith in the compe-
tition