Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-05-13
Bowdoin Awaiting
Invaders-- The Dope
Likely to Be Upset

Brunswick, May 12-(special from
the 'FRONT.' The Army of the White
under Brigadier- General Jack Magee
were in quarters promptly at 10 o'clock
Friday night after days cessation
from skirmish duties in order that they
may be in prime condition for the big
battle which commences Saturday
morning on Whittier Field.
The Light Blue forces from Orono,
commanded by General Crab Smith,
arrived at Brunswick Friday afternoon,
and We're strategically quartered away
from the maddening crowd, while the
cohorts from Waterville and the Gar
net Army from the side of the Andros-
coggin are in fine fettle and fully pre-
pared to grid up their loins and fight to
the finish from the first gun shot Satur-
day morning until the fight is decided
in the late afternoon
Reserve forces from all directions ar
rived late Friday on foot. by motor
cycle and automobile, and several hun
dred by the side door pullmans" re-
Questioned from the railroad for thor
ough mobilization.
At little after 10 o'clock this morn
ing Che Hubbard Grandstand. with
bleachers to the left of it, will volley
and thunder with the verbal cannonad-
ing capable Of emanating only from
several hundred husky pairs Of young
lungs.
Capt. Leadbetter, commanding the
field forces of the White under Gen.
eral Magee, announced Thursday night
at a monster outdoor conclave held be-
fore the Bowdoin reservists, that his
men were in fighting trim and would
battle to the bitter end. Loud cheers
greeted his announcement
Each individual warrior that starts
from under the gun today will give the
best he has, and the concensuS of opin-
ion from retired experts, after relivinS
the battles of the past, is that dis
tances and heights and times may
drop in manner really alarming be-
fore the struggle is ended. Bill Allen
of Maine, they say. is nightly likely
to wrest the record of Al feet, Az
inches held in the shot by Shepard of
Bates, away from the old Lewiston
weight man. Pat" French, too, may
tack an inch or two of tape on Faux
ner's record of % feet, 4& inches In
the broad jump. And in the pole vault
say. Hutton's been doing II feet 5
this spring: any reason why he isn't
going to trim Rogers record of II feet
6bs? And, Furthermore, the century Is
mighty likely to be equalled, say the
wise guys. Cloudman was going some
when he hung up 9 As in that event;
but lust YOU watch Charlie Rice-that
boy fairly flies. The quarter, too, is
likely to go better than 81 seconds, and
if it does Colby will lose the honors
Meanix brought her in the 44O.
A review of the struggles of the past
shows that since the annual battles
were started in 1895, Bowdoin has won
Is contests, Maine Z; and Bates, one;
while the Warriors from the upper
Kennebec have been unable to come
through with a single victory. The to-
taI scores of all the other three Maine
colleges put together from '9o to the
present exceeds Bowdoin's total by less
than 300 points.
"Score?" "Points?" you ask. But we
thought
No. gentle reader. it is not real battle
at Brunswick Saturday, but only the Zzd
annual Maine State intercollegiate track
meet; but unless all indications prove
false. and the weather God frowns un-
propitiously. this meet will be an epoch
making one in the history of Maine track
athletics.
Kennebec Journals received here Friday
morning give the meet to Maine by ap-
proximately 30 points. 1t is difficult TO
find much fault with the dope" That
commodity is unable. in taking the long
chance of naming men, to allow for over
turns, but there will be some, as there are
in every meet of this calibre. Bowdoln
is figuring on getting more than her snare
of the overturns. and believes Savage
will take both hurdle events and that
Turner will hang up more points than
credited by the Journal. Maine will win
all right unless the Maine team is really
crippled, but the margin will be nearer
90 points than 80, according to Bow
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