Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-04
BOWDOIN HILL.AND-DALE
TEAM GOES TO ORONO


TEAM GOES TO ORONO
Brunswick, Me. Nov. 3-(SpecialD
Coach Jack Magec's crack string
of barriers left for Orono Thursday
morninr, making an early start to
get the lay of the land before start
ing in the Maine classic Friday after
noon. AS the Maine course has a
reputation for being about the stiff
est in the State and with the further
! consideration that this years compe-
! titi0n is phcnomenally keen, the
| Bowdoin hill and dalers have been
doing the most gruelling sort Of
training. Road work.. field work,
I the sort Of stuff the peppery coach
has served up to them. AS a result,
| the team is probably in as good s.-aps
as any that ever left the college, and
many who nave watched them devel-
| up believe that their class gives them
a place high among the White teams.
Last Saturday their ovcrwhslmfn s
! victory over the Boston College ag-
kgrc2ation served to demonstrate the
power that the Bowdoin runners can
display and to give thsm their final
touch of training in q competitive Of :
fort. The Boston College competi-
ton was slight, to be sure. Bowdoin
placing seven men in the first nine,
while the visitors We're able to take
only Third and sixth places Satur-
day was far from being an ideal day
for a race, and the competition was
not so brisk as to bring out the max
imum Of effort on the part of the
Bowdoin leaders, but the lesser lum-
inaricS some of them in their first
race had u fine chance to get the
taste Of blood before tackling the
bigger game of the State Champion
ship. Leon Butler of Portland, who
is a senior at the Brunswick institu-
ton, vindicatcd his years of hard
work on the squad by taking fourth
place in this meeting. winning the
right to wear the BoWdoin y: Robert
Foster, n Manchester, Mass boy and
Frank Plaisted. a transfer from NJ. ].
T., both achieved the admirable rec
ord of winning their letters in their
first race for the college. Foster is
only q ycarlng and looks to be cap
able of booming bright and shining
light i'm the hill and dale game be-
fore the end of his college career,
There is no question but that
Plaisted is n runner well approach
ing the circle of the first magnitude
as it has been nip and tuck be-
tween him and Bill Hart, the rangy
Bowdoin captain, all the season. The
lanky white leader trimmed him
neatly in the Saturday race but the
new man bids fair TO make a splen-
did showing in the State meet. Car
roll Towle. a Winthrop product and
a Senior at college, is one of the
phenomenal members of the team.
Not only is he an excellent barrier
and u consistent runner in the dis
lance events of the spring work, but
lie is Il student of such exceptional
ability that he was one Of the three
from his class to be initiated into the
Phi Beta Kappa honorary Tociety at
the end of his Junior year.
AS for the superb Bill Hart. the
carrot topped comet from Camden,
little more need be said than that he
is ready to run the race of his life
over the OrOnO course Friday. His
long legs have eaten up the miles
around Brunswick with such dexter
ity this fail that it is generally be-
li2ved that he will DC one Of the
greater IuminaricS of the Friday
meeting. The only fly in the ONT
ment is bad foot that appeared last
spring. causing Bits disability in the
two mile races of the early meets. IT
this should again afIiict the Bowdoin
leader his chances would of course
be materially lowered but an idea of
the gamencsS with which he runs
his races may be received from the
fact that he ran mile and three
quarters of the two mile against
Brown last spring after his ankle had
gone completely wrong, and he
lilnpod in to Il strong second in face
Vi DIS great an ObSLSiSIe DIS IIlaI. I4dSt
year he surprised many of the critics
by taking third place in the State
event. finishing only a few yards be-
hind the Bukcr brothers, and it is
against Ray Bukcr, the Bates cap
tain, that he is expected TO direct his
attack this year. And In that rivalry
it is believed will be the source of
the greatest duel ever in the cham
pionslfip tilt.
AS Plaisted is ineligible to run IN
the State meet, Captain Hunt of the
track team will be the fifth man in
team. This Braintree lad has made
name for himself in the Bowdoin
annals. and he should make a credit
able showing in this event. Fred
Fred Hamilton, a South Portlander
and a conner in the mile, Sam
Howes, a Portland yearling, who has
surprised the collegians by his I'M
usual class and Lloyd Bishop, Of
brunswick, whose consistent work in
the middle distances deserves favor
able comment, will make up the re-
mainder of the team, Coach Magee is
highly pleased with the performance
of the squad to date and he expresses
his confidence in them to make a
worthy showing in the meet. But
that. of course, like the Saturday