Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-13

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Play will open in Philadelphia tomor-
row in the 35th annual tournament for
the Intercollegiate tennis championships
II both singles and doubles. The tourney
last year was notable for one Of the most
startling upsets Of tennis season when r.
Norris Williams End, the newly crowned
champion Of tke-U nited States, was de-
feated by George NJ. Church Williams
has shown a more consistent game this
year and as both players will again be
eligible it may be that the Harvard rec
quet will reverse the 1914 result when he
meets the Princeton tennis team captain.
Unless there are some 11th-hour add
tons 10 the schedules there will be no
eastern college or university football
elevens seen in action AZ the Panama
Pacific Exposition field in San Francisco
this season, The Intercollegiate game is
gaining ground again on the Pacific
Coast and several institutions which
have played Rugby during the past few
years will return to the so-called Ameri-
can form of football this Autumn.
The University of California. South
ern California and Nevada will all
play the Intercollegiate game and their
! schedules show contests with the larger
| institutions of the Northwest. The an
| nual contest between the teams Of Cali
fornia and Leland Stanford will not be
! played this year
A series Of games between the elevens
| OF the leading athletic clubs of the Pa
! cine Coast is being planned by the Expo
| slton authorities and as these teams will
| consist Of former university PLAYERS
| some fast football is anticipated There
is a bare possibility that an all-star team
| from the East may meet the winner of
the Tar coast series late in December
An eleven composed chiefly Of former
Harvard stars will play a number Of
games IN the east and if the showing
warrants may make the transcontinental
| trip for final contest in San Francisco
The Denver Club of the Western
League has insured both players and
umpires appearing at its park under the
Workmans compensation law. Hereafter
any arbiter who is the object of attack
by excited fan or player or who is in
Jured by accident during the game will
OF which goes TO show that baseball does
not stagnate. The move indicates that
the umpire has been elevated to the
class human although it is clearly ev,-
dent that his position is one of extreme
hazard since the insurance rates on UNI
pires are extremely high. Policeman,
firemen and those following equally dan
gerous vocstions can be insured for con-
siderably less than the man who tries to
convince players and fans that he sees
strikes. balls and put-outs more accur-
ately than they can ever hope to do.
General de Maud'huys great POPULAR.
y in the French army is attributed to the
fact that be is sport-advocate. He has
contributed more than any other general
officer to the development of athletics in
the garrisons. Every regiment Stationed
at Saint Mihiel during his stay there had
two football teams and the general never
missed a match He also encouraged
boxing and foot-racing Berretrout, the
champion mile runner of the army, was
one of the men selected ny him as ath-
was a frequent spectator at the training
boxing bouts and did not disdain round
FOR two himself with the gloves. He had
learned the French system from Charlie
mont, and proved an apt pupil in the
English style.