Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-28


Sporting Gossip
with Maine Flavor
Historians of Maine college athletes
have toahink back quite a way in the
dim past before they can recember
that the college baseball candidates
were able to get outdoors on a prac-
tically dry diamond two weeks before
Easter vacation. or in other words,
about the middle of March. 1t has
usually been the custom to get the
candidates back early from their Eas-
ter vacation and give them their first
workout at that time, but with such
idea weather this Spring all the COL
legeS started early in their work.
Philip Bird, the freshman hurler on
Fred Ostergren's Portland High team,
is mighty sweet looking little ball
tosser and should make good relief
pitcher for Ray Carr. In a practice
game yesterday morning he pitched a
fine little game for the second squad.
Four Portland boys are on the Bow
doin baseball team which will leave
tomorrow for a weeks trip playing
Princeton, Columbia, and u. of Penn.
Billy Needelman, captain Of the team,
and former Portland High player,
will be on second base, while his
brother Dave, will be on right field;
Don Clifford, old Deering High first
sacker, will be on first base and
George Davis, former Portland High
player, will make tibet rip as utility
man.
| Drew Stearns, former hebron Acad-
envy star pole vaulter and record hold
er of the event in the Bowdoin Inter-
scholastic meet, will vaule for Uni
versity of Maine this spring in the
State meet at Brunswick. May IA. 1t
| is reported that he is clearing II feet
consistently and looks to be the log.-
cal winner of the event in the Maine
meet
Ted kimbaIT. catching for the Poet
land High team this year, looked
urday morning. He crashed out two
doubles and a single out of three
times up. The doubles would have
been triples with anyone else up
there. Poor Ted is so circular that
he can hardly get around, let alone
i run bases, but he certainly can crash
tina old apple.
Jack Magee, BoWdoin rack coach
and football trainer who appeared at
the hearing of the new proposed box
ing bill before the Legislature last
Wednesday. states that the was mis-
quoted in the papers on one particu-
lar. He was quoted as claiming that
three out of every five bouts in the
state of Maine are faxed" What
acoutlly said" corrected the Bow
doin coach. was that the people If
Maine believe that three out of every
five bouts are faxed. | don't claim
that it is so myself
Bill kiley, captain of last years
Catholic High team is playing a
whale of IA game at shortstop for
Portland High this year. And he
looks mighty good up there at the
platter Fred Ostergren has one of
the best infield prospects in the
league this year in Joe Ward, Lou
Glidden, Henry Collins and Bill Kiley.
They made a fine combination and
are all good hitters as High school
hitterS run.
1t is a peculiar coincidence that the
captains of two of the major sports
in Bowdoin College. Captain Billy
Needelman in baseball and Captain
elect AL Morrell in football, both have
brothers in the freshman class and
al four are members of the baseball
team, so that the team is made up
of two pairs of brothers, Dave Need
Gilman, brother to Captain Bill, will
come in handy for Coach Houser as
he was sadly in need of southpaw
to change. the style of his play in
some games, and Dave will fill the
bill all right Besides that he is a
classy little fielder and he beat out
a lot of good candidates. Mac Nor
rell. brother to AL, is a good steady
backstop, coming from Huntington
school, Boston, where he caught on
the ball club. He will alternate with
Jack Handy behinl the bat. Coach
Houser is fortunate in having two re-
liable backstops. The Needelmens
and Morrells form an excellent basis
for the Bowdoin nine.
Bates College will have two good
men in the dashes this Spring at the
State meet. in Wiggin, their versatile
athlete, and Farley. freshman and
star sprinter from Huntington school
of Boston. They should clean up
some good points in the 100 and 220.
Bates likewise has a good man in
Captain Ray Buker. the star cross
country man and miller and two
miller.
No wonder that tempting offers
from many other colleges out of the
State fail to interest Ben Houser, the
Bowdoin baseball coach, when he has
such a fine farm and surrounding at
Litchfield, little way from Lewiston.
where he passes his time when not
coaching baseball. He has the repu-
tation of having one of the finest
farms of its kind in the vicinity, and
his famous chicken dinners which he
serves attract large patronage His
wife keeps some cats at the farm
which have a wide reputa ton and
have won several first prizes at cat
chowS in RoStop aud