Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-08-15
L. OF M. MUST LOOK
TO FRESHMEN FOR
ATHLETIC MATERIAL
University of Maine. Orono. Auj

University of Maine, Orono. Aug. 10.
Maine must count on its entering
class Of freshmen, carrying with it
former prep and high school athletes,
if she expects to achieve much this
coming year. for coaches in all sports
will have to build to fill vacancies
caused by graduations, shifting of al
ma matters and scholastic difficulties.
Applications for registration when
L. of NJ opens in September, as re-
cciyed at the Office Of the registrar,
show that goodly number of prom
Using men arc headed Oronoward in
the fall Indications point to Il big
freshman class and a promising dele
cation of football gridders. track and
field men. and baseball workers.
All the way from Supulpa, oklaho-
ma, will come Clyde Smith, all-state
preparatory center last year, a heavy
hoy OF 100, nearly six feet proclaimed
by Track Coach F1ack, who knows
Smiths work. as one of the best prep
school men in the West. He is not
only football specialist but has
played center at basketball, caught .
baseball and has shown ability in -.
ting the shot and throwing the discus
Carleton Mason. pitcher, ard basket
ball forward Of rcpute, former Oliver
Ames High lNorth Easton. Mass }.
and last year prominent in TiItun
Seminary, \. IL. athletics, las shown
intention to come TO Maine. He has
blazed his way to success AS a p!tche.
while in prep school. and has played
summer ball in the White mountains.
this season having been occupied along
these Lines in semi-pro class in New
York state. Benny Boynton. Williams
athlete Of repute. recommends Mason
as a conner.
Harvey Suite. formerly of Coburn.
and his battery mate. Sukcforth. who
| th:s summer has attracted much at
, tcntion in ana around northern Maine
for his work as a member of the semi
pro Great Northern outfit of Mill
nocket, will undoubtedly enroll in
September. This combination would
help Coach Wilkie Clark materially in
the spring III baseball
Massa chuSetts will contribute. no
doubt. in the persons of Blair. Med
ford High all-around man. said to be
one of the mostly likely locking col
/ lcgians, for his work in interscolastic
circles in ard around Boston last fall;
Philip Erlick. East Boston High. quar-
terhack and track man, who undoubt
ediy, should he enter Maine. would
confine his attentions to track for a
year or two; Johnny Grace. also OF
East Boston, 190-pound fullback and
! boxman on the diamond, not TO men
! lion others VINO include Johnny Hag-
gerty of Dorchester. quarterback and
third baseman
wilmer Elliott, star all-around men
OF Montreal, +. G., High school. full
back for four Years. basketball. hook
ey and baseball! man as well as a
Splinter of ability, will register as a
forester and attempt to follow his
fathers footsteps. Wesley G. Elliott
the dad being one of the best around
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Unusual interest will be shown to-
ward the rolls of registration here
when the institution opens in Septem-
Der. Never before has the university
depended upon it's entering class to
furnish athletic stock as much as it
does fer this fall and Coaches Brice
tfootbaip, Flack (track) and Clark
fbasebalD are all anxious to see what
will turn up in the way of prospects
for varsity calibre.