Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-26
MIDWNTER GOSSIP
FROM the U. OF Maine
Sporting Chat Includes Baseball
and Next Seasons Prospects
Real Interest in De-
batting Team.

Orono, Jan. 26.-(Special)-Afth
the relay team occupies the center Of
interest in athletics at Maine during
the winter months. the topic Of base
ball is heard in the various fraterni-
ties and halls. Monte Cross. who is
to coach the team will not arrive till
March %. but the men will begin
work in the cage under Captain Lawry
at q much earlier date.
Captain Lawry was intending to go
TO the Big Leagues for a tryout with
the Philadelphia athletics. and had
made his plans to be absent from the
university during the training trip Of
that team, but 4 short time ago he
found that in 50 doing ne would be
made ineligible for the Maine college
team, SO he has abandoned the trip
and will devote his time to the build
ing up OF a championship team for
Maine. Captain Lawry, or "Oat," as
his friends like to call him, has played
on the Maine team for three years
and at the close OF last season was
unanimously elected captain for 1916.
The team for the coming season has
eight veterans. The only places left
open by last years graduating class
are left field, catcher and first base.
Probably the only place that Coach
Cross will find it hard to replace is
first base. Gilman who covered this
position for three years graduated last
June. Baker, Names star catcher.
will not be missed as much as was ex-
pected. for Reardon, a sophomore.
caught splendid games last spring.
The annual freshman -sophomor
game last fall brought to light some
good material in Peckham from Ban
gor High. Eastman FROM Gardiner
High. and zeigler a pitcher from Bos-
ton. Peckham 10 one of the best
I known players in Bangor, having
starred on several teams around that
place. He will probably be developed
into first sacker Of Reardon shows
up well in the catching department.
Inter fraternity baseball is again
the topic Of discussion and while
nothing definite has been decided, il
seems quite certain that there will be
an inter-fraternity baseball league
formed and that a series of games
will be played in the spring. The plan
is to have games from to Z P. NJ
during the baseball season, three
nights q week. Two games will be
played at a time as both the diamond
on the football field and the new base
ball diamond can be used. The Sun
set League" as it will be called, will be
governed by board Of directors com
posed Of one member from each fra
Iternity and one faculty member. The
winning team will receive a cup which
will be paid for by assessment Of all
4 frateruities in the league
Coach Smith has Weeded out his re-
lay candidates and but 10 men have
been retained to fight for these posi-
lions. Fine trials have been held
three times in the last two weeks and
at present it looks as though the diff
ference between the men were only a
matter of preference.
The Cadet Band has recently re-
ceived some new equipment from the
State in an allotment Of olive and drah
overcoats. In addition to these it re-
ceived some new books of band music
and a lot Of new instruments are ex-
pected soon. The band has begun to
rehearse for a series Of concerts to be
given in Bangor during the semester
Beginning with the first Of Febru-
airy the employment bureau, which has
formerly been in charge of the college
office. will be taken over by the Maine
Christian Association. This bureau
finds work Of all kinds for the stu
dents while they are here at college
and also Is in a position to offer work
for the vacation and for the summer
months. The headquarters of the as
ISOLATION will be in Hannibal Hamlin
hall.
The debating team of the University
is one Of the most active organizations
at the present time. Much interest is
being shown in the weekly trial. Re-
solved: THAT the Monroe Doctrine
Should Be Abandoned by the United
States as a Part Of Her Foreign Pol
ICY" ia the question which Maine will
debate with Colby on March 10. Last
year the Maine teams lost both at
Orono and Waterville, but with the
enthusiasm that Is being shown by
the members Of the squad this year
things should be reversed.
| In the preliminary trials Is men
were selected to make up the squad
from which the final teams will be Sc
lected. These men were as follows:
Class Of 1915, Harry E. Rollins. Fred
erick ROBBIE and Mr. Forsyth; class Of
1917, Charles Grassland, Earle Emery
and Walter N. Jones; class Of 1918
Edward Mclean, John McGhee, Albert
Wunderlick, Henry Norton. Lee
vrooman and John OConneli; class OF
1919, Adams, Emery and Donovan.
These men are divided into teams Of
three men each ana a serieA Of weekly
debates will be started The final
teams will be selected in February, q
negative and affirmative. one to debate