Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-26
SPORTING NOTES

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Fort Williams, not Fort McKin-
ley, will oppose the Bates team at
Garcelon Field, Saturday afternoon,
and the change in booking means
so much harder task for the Garnet
ball tossers, for be it known that
Fort Williams has COPIED the har-
Dor pennant. Saturdays game will
get under way at three O'Clock, pro-
vided the snowdrifts have been re-
moved at that time. and will be ov-
Ell in time to enable the fans from
Boothbay Harbor and Hurricane
Isle to catch the last train. and pro-
badly in time for all to get the week
ly dish with a side Of pork Bates
has no illusion on the calibre of it's
team, but the boys are working hard
under Hank Merrill and at any rate
should improve over their work of
last Saturday.
Officers of the Farwell Baseball
Club of Lisbon. have been elected as
follows: Manager. Ralph -. Jordan;
assistant manager, Mederic Biron;
captain, Edward Weymouth. A
schedule is being arranged and Man.
ager Jordan is anxious to hear from
teams.
Pooch Donovan, out at Harvard,
has started many of the athletic
critics athinking. Pooch claims that
the athletes returning from the war
c,,o
speed as in pre-War days. He Is
anxious to get down to the Penn re-
lay games tomorrow to see if the
other college coaches view it that
way. According to the Harvard
trainer too much walking ne'-er did
a star athlete a whole lot of good,
especially when it came to develop
ing speed and the finesse that is
necessary for college athlete to
show. 1t will be interesting to hear
what the other college athletic
coaches have to say on this sub
ject.
On the other hand reports from
the West seem to indicate that not
only are some of the athletes report
ed to have done better since the
armistice was signed. but are re-
Ecks' version Of TIE Central A. A.
championships is any criterion
Boston Post.
The belmont -Joeephs bout at the
Fenway A. A. next Monday night
looks like another crowded house for
that club. There will be no cham
pionship attachments. but there will
be Il rounds Of scrapping of the
hardest kind. The result will not be
a draw, both Boys having requested
that the referee give a decision The
followers Of the boys are showing an
unusual amount Of interest in their
respective champions and have gone
to the point Of hiring bands to play
during the evening. presumably in
opposition to each other. all of
which is bound to create music,
noise and fun in large hunks.
The opening boxing show Of the
Eureka A. c. of Baltimore, which
has been organized few months,
will be staged on May L. Matchmak-
err Mccarthy has signed up Jack
ii,
to meet Johnny Tillman Of ST. Paul.
in a 12-round. no-decision bout. The
prices Of tickets for the battle will
be from 81 to S.. Al Herford is a
partner in the club.
Frank Bagley, manager of Johnny
Murray. the promising local boxer,
yesterday matched Murray to meet
AL Shubert, the New Bedford
featherweight for six rounds Il. the
National a. c. of Philadelphia on
Saturday evening. May 10. Murray
fought Joe O'Donnell Of Gloucester,
Pa. in the star bout at the opening
boxing show Of the Empire A. c. Of
Philadelphia Thursday night.
Yale has a pretty nifty be-speck-
led twirler in Frank Coke, who bios
SONS as one Of the real collegians
this spring college baseball season.
So good was the Yalensian against
Johnny McGraw's Giants that the
Little Napoleon chased Jim Thorpe
from behind him as an umpire, SO
that McGraw could get a chance
to glimpse over his slants. so regu-
larly was he causing Giant batsmen
trouble. Hughey Duffey is going to
have his troubles over in Cam
bridge this spring in trying to beat
this la6.
Forrest Day, Of Gorham. a men,
Der of the senior class at Westbrook
High school, was elected captain
yesterday of the base ball nine to
fill the vacancy caused by the res
ignation of Leonard Jordan. Day r.
back stopping for the local High
school,, nine this season. Last year
he was one of the mound artists of
the team, and with his experience
he will make a very valuable man to
direct the team for the remainder Of
the season. Tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock the Westbrook High school
base ball nine will play the Thornton
Academy team at Saco on the War
rem League grounds in the regular
scheduled game in the Sunday Tele.