Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-23
SPORTING NOTES.

Ty Cobb has broken rib, as re-
suit of being hit by one of Fosters
inshoots Monday at Boston and will
not be able to play for two weeks
or more. Although Cobb was hurt
Monday he remained in the game aft
er the accident and also started in
the game Tuesday but after sliding
into the plate in the third inning and
getting quite a shaking up he with
drew. He was in such pain Wednes
day that he did not attempt to play.
In fact even the effort of breathing
caused him much suffering. Late in
the afternoon he was put under the
X-ray by the Red Sox club physician,
who found that the sixth rib on the
right side had been broken outward,
about three inches from the sternum.
Word from AT COPELAND. received
in New York indicates that the Am
erican veteran athlete, who is train
ing Austrias Olympic team. is busy
and happy working at his task in put
ting Austria on the Olympic games
map. He is getting cordial support
and great boosting in the papers and
magazines. One of the latter states
that "Al' is giving practical demon
STATIONS. and. in starting off the
marks, has been beating Austria's
best sprinters. Copeland Is fortunate
ly light in weight, but we must re-
member that 1t is 20 years and more
since he was active in athletics. and
then he was winning championships.
Arrangements virtually have been
completed for playing the next foot
ball game between the Naval and
Military Academy teams on the Am
erican League grounds, Washington.
The owners of the grounds are pre-
pairing prints of the proposed seating
arrangements and if they are salts
factory the contract will be made. It
is Nays turn to choose the meeting
place this year.
Dan Ciohecy may get Harry Aubrey
to manage his team. A telegram from
Aubrey dated at Scranton indicates his
acceptance of terms, provided Clohecy
sends two full fares and two half fares.
Aubrey is married and has two children
and his family always accompanies him
/ to the town where he hangs his hat dur
ing the baseball season.
casionally bother the scorers came up in
Tuesdays game at Portland in the sew
enth inning. Joe Burns started to steal
second Casey made a perfect peg over
the bag and should have had Burns
easily. Swanson started too late to get
the throw and the ball hit the turf be-
yond the bag. He was credited with the
error
An athletic meet of international i'm
portance will be held in Berlin next
month. Ernie Hjertberg, Swedens Olym-
pic trainer, and A. c. Kraenzlein, who
is preparing Germany's Olympic athletes
for the Berlin games in 1916 have ar
ranged a dual meet between their teams,
and the American delegates to the Inter
national Federation In Lyons on June II
and to the international Olympic com
mittee meeting in Paris have been invited
to act as officials. Comparisons are obi
Gus, but there are some excellent Off
Gals in that American group. either as
timers or judges, and few men have had
the experience of our James E. Sullivan
as referee.
There is at least one driver in the In
dianapois speedway race who is not SUI
perstitious. Harry Grant has painted his
Sunbeam car dull black, and on the
front of the radiator he has painted a
white skull and crossbones. 1t makes a
grewsome picture, to say the least. The
spiral effect shown in picture just
above the skull and crossbones is the
condenser, which is new thing on sew
eral of the cars this year. Steam formed
in the radiator goes into the condenser